** Originally Posted by Cluny View Post
also why did they abandon prayers such as Hail Holy Queen and St. Micheal?
These were NEVER prayers of the Mass.
They were never included in the Altar Missal.
These and some others (collectively called the Leonine Prayers) were at one time appointed to be said after LOW masses–and that not before the 19th century.
In other words, they were not even said after a Missa Cantata or Missa Solemnis.
So, the Hail Holy Queen and St. Micheal prayers were never part of the Tridentine Latin Mass?**
**These prayers were never even said after Mass until the time of Pope Leo XIII in the late 1800’s. Hence the name “Leonine Prayers”.
Their original intention was for protection of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope when he was being deprived of the Papal States by the newly united Kingdom of Italy. They were at first said only in the erstwhile Papal States, later extended to the entire Latin Church–but only after a Low Mass
Then another pope (Pius X, I think) changed their intention to protection against modernism.
Then Pius XI changed their intention to the “conversion of Russia”–even though Russia had been a Christian nation, despite the Communists, for centuries.
According to Wikipedia, they have been tinkered with more or less constantly since ordered by Leo XIII.
The Wikipedia article closes with the following information:
The Leonine Prayers were never included in the 1962 edition of the Roman Missal or in any other edition. But the fact that they were suppressed only after the 1962 Missal was issued is considered by some to mean that they are obligatory when Mass is celebrated in accordance with that Missal. Accordingly, they are still recited publicly sometimes after a celebration of Tridentine Mass. This is not the practice in the Ecône seminary of the Society of St. Pius X,[3] and it has been argued that, since freedom to profess the faith has been restored in Russia, the purpose for which the Leonine Prayers were prescribed in 1930 has been achieved, leading to cessation of the law concerning them.[3]<<
Here is also some surprising information about the–and from a sedevacantist of all people!
traditionalmass.org/articles/article.php?id=16&catname=1**