EF: preparation and other rules

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ProVobis said:
Doesn’t the “In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sanctis” start the Mass in both the OF and EF? As well as the sermon proper, for that matter?
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The Sign of the Cross is said at the foot of the Altar, with Psalm 42 and the Confiteor (by the Celebrant and the Server), when i was trained to serve, i was told this bit are the prepatory prayers for the Mass, while technically theprayers at the foot of the altar are part of the Mass, at the same time there not, as the Priest has yet to mount the Altar steps.
 
Well, then, someone had better tell the Holy See, because for centuries they promulgated missals that listed the Ordo Missae (Order of Mass), beginning with the prayers at the foot of the altar.

The confusion comes from the fact that historically the notion had been at one time that the Mass began when the priest ascended the altar, but that gradually changed in the late Middle Ages. And certainly the EF of the 1962 missal, as all missals since Trent, begins the Mass at the foot of the altar.
 
I have two questions to add, and I appreciate your responses.

1.) Can songs in English be sung?
2.) Is each of the indulgences you find in an EF missal still acceptable to your knowledge?

fish90
 
fish90 said:
I have two questions to add, and I appreciate your responses.

1.) Can songs in English be sung?
2.) Is each of the indulgences you find in an EF missal still acceptable to your knowledge?

fish90
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  1. During the recessional can be sung. During communion as well, but why would you want to? 🙂
  2. Yes, indulgences are still valid, though the exact length of time can’t really be specified.
 
ProVobis said:
Doesn’t the “In nomine Patris et Filii et Spiritus Sanctis” start the Mass in both the OF and EF? As well as the sermon proper, for that matter?
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Traditionally, much before St Pius V, the Mass started with the process, while the choir sung the Introit.

When I was child the choir started to sing the Introit or (Central Europe some equivalent vernacular hymn; how was it in Poland?).

Meanwhile the priest walked up to the altar, put the chalice set to the altar, kissed the altar, arranged the book, walked down to the foot of the altar and started his recitation with the sign of cross while the choir still sung the Introit.

Between 1570 and 1964 the priest was obliged to read the introit in inaudible voice after he walked up to the altar again.
 
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