CDF: Big News for the Extraordinary Form

[Fauken]

You can see what I’m talking about online.

You’ll be interested in section 11.

EDIT: Try Googling “1962 general rubrics breviary”. Whoever named that page did not know what they were doing.

 

[TomH1]

Have you just tried the link or do you have it saved? I’ve clicked on it and received a 404 error message.

 

[Fauken]

I edited my post above.

 

[TomH1]

1962 general rubrics breviary

Thank you!

I googled and my second hit found this at the website you originally recommended. It’s very useful because it simply sets out the table of precedence of liturgical days.

I also found at my first hit, and downloaded, a pdf version of a book called THE NEW RUBRICS OF THE ROMAN BREVIARY AND MISSAL: TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY, which looks like it may be very useful.

 

[tafan2]

Well, there as in the past few years, been some fear that under Pope Francis, the EF was at risk of being somewhat suppressed (for lack of better wording). This seems to be a clear sign that it is here to stay. That’s a good thing.

 

[commenter]

My Missal was published in 1959 so I should probably have got a new one by now anyway. But I got it when I made my first Holy Communion and it has a nice commemorative front cover. I know that shouldn’t matter but it does.

Back in the good old days, I was told I would be getting a “missile” for my Communion. I envisioned something I could set up in my back yard, shoot up in the air to pretend to nuke the Russians.

Talk about phonetic disappointments.

 

[dochawk]

I thought that feasts outranked ferias if of the same or higher class, e.g. a third class feast would outrank a third class feria, but you’re saying third class ferias outrank third class feasts.

The wild one, of course, is when Good Friday lands on Annunciation . . . but that won’t happen again even in any of our children’s lifetimes . . . In the East, we end up with three layers of fittings on the Holy Table, starting with the Marion blue (and blue vestments), and partway through we remove that (and change to dark vestments), which are over the white that will be revealed partway through the Holy Saturday vigil . . .

So we do have a Divine Liturgy on Good Friday, with the joy of the Annunciation for part, and moving on to calling Judas a traitor three times in the course of four words . . . !

And if you put two eastern in a room, you’ll probably get three answers as to whether fasting remains strict, is lessened, dispensed, or prohibited!

The short explanation we received was that Annunciation was an older observation than Good Friday, and thus took precedence–but I lack the background to agree, explain, or deny . . .

 

[AlbertDerGrosse]

The wild one, of course, is when Good Friday lands on Annunciation . . .

Unless I’m misremembering, it gets even wilder if St. Joseph’s and the Annunciation both find their way into either Holy Week or the Easter Octave as both are transferred to the week after the Easter Octave and the latter is celebrated before the former despite having the opposite relative positions on the ordo.

A few months ago I was building a Microsoft Excel sheet that could instantly tell you which feasts are celebrated, commemorated, impeded, transferred, etc. just by plugging in a date. Hours were spent writing complicated boolean formulae to this end starting from Advent going forward through the liturgical year… until I got to March and gave up.

 

[dochawk]

I couldn’t even guess at what happens in the west for those . . . but we sure don’t move Annunciation in the East

(but I think we grudgingly move the feast of the Conception of St. Anne a day in the US to share the date with the RC celebration of the IC [we have a day shorter in general for her gestation, as opposed to that of Christ, over his perfection])

 

[HomeschoolDad]

Three big changes to the EF announced by the CDF today: 1) Seven new prefaces will be added , 2) Post-conciliar saints can now be celebrated as Third Class Feasts and Commemorations, and 3) Third Class Feasts are now allowed to outrank most Third Class Ferias, including Lenten Ferias.

I expect this news to be met with diverse reactions. I’m overall pretty darn happy about it!

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New Prefaces and Feasts for the EF Missal​

Today, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, exercizing the authority that came to it with the absorption of the Ecclesia Dei Co…

Have changes such as these ever been made in the 1570 Missal? I know that propers for newly canonized saints were added as canonizations took place, no problem with that, but what about the new prefaces and this feasts-outrank-ferias business?

Not saying the Church doesn’t have the authority to do the latter two things, just wondering.

 

[AlbertDerGrosse]

I know that propers for newly canonized saints were added as canonizations took place, no problem with that, but what about the new prefaces and this feasts-outrank-ferias business?

This is nothing new. Consider all the neo-Gallican prefaces most of which were authored after the Council of Trent and were eventually included in the Roman Missal in the early 20th century. And having seasonal ferias outrank sanctoral feasts of the same class is actually a novelty of the 1960 calendar so this change is a return to a more traditional practice. Now if only they’d do it next with “the green Sundays.”

 

[TomH1]

An excellent post today (27th March 2020) on the blog Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment (here) answers your question very well. He says that the period 1962-2020 is the longest period during which what we now call the Extraordinary Form has not had changes made to it. He says, ‘A Liturgy set immutably in granite is profoundly untraditional!’ (emphasis in the original).