Amado de Dios wrote:
…absolutely spot-on commentary!
Not wishing to be boring, but the following from Post #45 at
forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=86780 confirms:
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Re: Traditional Rite NEVER Abrogated declare Cardinals
ByzCath wrote:
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Doesn’t really matter what one Cardinal says.
Spot on!!!
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I believe it was abrogated as any promulgation of a new missal, as was done with the Missal of 1970, automatically aborgates the old one.
The Law “Quo Primum”] was abrogated: the Pian liturgy of Mass was derogated.
To be derogated means to be replaced. The Pian liturgy was lawfully REPLACED as the normative Liturgy of Mass for the Roman Missal by the Pauline liturgy.
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Also, if this was so then the Holy Father would not have granted the Indult because it was not needed.
But, because the Pian liturgy was replaced by the Pauline liturgy, there was no need for it to be abrogated - for the Law “Quo Primum” was abrogated by the law of Paul VI: “Missale Romanum”.
Thus an Indult became necessary for the derogated liturgy of St Pius V to be performed strictly and precisely as per the liturgy approved as at 1962. Not as per 1576, 1776, 1958 - but, precisely 1962.
Making gleeful claims that the “Traditional Rite [was] NEVER abrogated” is false for the very reason that there is no such lawful liturgy that is accurately described as “the Traditional Rite”, and secondly, it is moot as to wheter or not the Liturgy of Mass authorized by Pope St Pius V and the variations of that liturgy as approved by subsequent popes, and properly set out in the authorized versions of “The Roman Missal” (“Missale Romanum”) has or has not been abrogated - for it certainly HAS BEEN lawfully and authoratively derogated (replaced) by the liturgy contained in the present “Roman Missal”**
So-called “traditionalists” ought to appreciate that Christ gave to His Church, acting in the person of “Peter” the “Power of the Keys” - to carry out His command to “do these things in commemoration of Me”. These “things” comprised those things which existed within the Last Supper context; and those essential words and acts which effected transubstantiation, and those which comprised the Eucharistic Communion.
Every Pope from St Peter to Benedict XVI has possessed precisely the same power to carry out Christ’s “simple” command to “do these things” in whatsoever ways that each or any pope might command. That “these things” have been done within a variety of liturgical “garments” is proven from the varying liturgical rites which have emanated from all of the Apostles, and variations down the ages. Pope Paul VI exercized precisely the same power as Pope St Gregory the Great and Pope St Pius V.
At no time did Christ guarantee that any of His Vicars would always make prudential decisions; but, when those decisions ARE imposed - Catholics must respect them.