Graviora Delicta

[SpiritFire]

Hi!

I love to study the Holy Mass. A quick question:

From Redemptionis Sacrmentum:

Graviora Delicta:

b) The attempted celebration of the liturgical action of the Eucharistic Sacrifice
or the simulation of the same.

Is saying or singing the prayers (often proper to the ordained) aloud considered a graviora delicta?

What about chanting a preface for the sake of the fact that I like the melody and happen
to know the words (in Latin)?

What about reading the rubrics and doing the postures prescribed therein just so I know what to look for?
Is this a mortal sin? Is it a sin at all?

Help would be appreciated! God bless!

 

[YoungTradCath]

If you don’t actually have the intent of really saying a mass, then you’re not actually simulating a mass. Read, sing all you want by yourself or whatever. Now, if you put on some vestments and you’re like, “Ok, I’m going to say mass now for real!” and you go get some people to witness, and you follow rubrics and attempt to consecrate, then that’s a sin.

 

[MarkThompson]

Is saying or singing the prayers (often proper to the ordained) aloud considered a graviora delicta?

What about chanting a preface for the sake of the fact that I like the melody and happen
to know the words (in Latin)?

What about reading the rubrics and doing the postures prescribed therein just so I know what to look for?
Is this a mortal sin? Is it a sin at all?

No, all those things are fine. What is forbidden are blasphemies like being a fake priest or saying a Black Mass. Please note that seminarians training for the priesthood do “practice Masses” to learn how to say Mass – the purpose is training, not to actually “attempt” celebration of the Mass.

 

[SpiritFire]

Thanks, all!

May God keep you!