Holy Week

[TantumErgo90]

Are parishes in which the celebration of the 1962 missal takes place allowed to mix and match certain pre-1962 missal ceremonies, especially during palm sunday and holy week. The FSSP Mass that I attend does a whole bunch of this. It is hard to follow in my missal sometimes. For example, we follow everything on Palm Sunday as it should be except the Subdeacon knocks on the door and he carries the processional cross. I’m just confused. Are they permitted to do this?

 

[kleary]

Are parishes in which the celebration of the 1962 missal takes place allowed to mix and match certain pre-1962 missal ceremonies, especially during palm sunday and holy week. The FSSP Mass that I attend does a whole bunch of this. It is hard to follow in my missal sometimes. For example, we follow everything on Palm Sunday as it should be except the Subdeacon knocks on the door and he carries the processional cross. I’m just confused. Are they permitted to do this?

By the letter of the law they should not even be praying the second confiteor…but they do it at the EF Mass on EWTN…

I am unsure of pre 1962 directives as of this time…I will ask my sources and respond in a few days,

Ken

 

[brotherhrolf]

All of which kind of begs the question of Passion Sunday and Passion Week which preceded Holy Week. On Passion Sunday all of the statues and the crucifix were shrouded in purple cloth. Is this still followed in TLM parishes? What about the wooden clapper which substitutes for the bells from Passion Sunday on?

 

[kleary]

All of which kind of begs the question of Passion Sunday and Passion Week which preceded Holy Week. On Passion Sunday all of the statues and the crucifix were shrouded in purple cloth. Is this still followed in TLM parishes? What about the wooden clapper which substitutes for the bells from Passion Sunday on?

Yes. The statues are veiled, and the wooden clapper is used also. (the wooden clapper I believe is still used in the Novus Ordo.

Ken

 

[Hijikata]

Are parishes in which the celebration of the 1962 missal takes place allowed to mix and match certain pre-1962 missal ceremonies, especially during palm sunday and holy week. The FSSP Mass that I attend does a whole bunch of this. It is hard to follow in my missal sometimes. For example, we follow everything on Palm Sunday as it should be except the Subdeacon knocks on the door and he carries the processional cross. I’m just confused. Are they permitted to do this?

Same thing happens at the FSSP parish I attend. I find it wonderful that such traditions are still used (Second Confiteor etc).

 

[kleary]

I posted this same question on the CTNGREG email discussion list at yahoogroups. The response I got was the following:

“THE FSSP IN SACRAMENTO DOES ALL OF THEM!!
[Moderator’s Comment: See the documentation in the back of the annually published F.S.S.P. Ordo for an explanation of the use of various pre-1962 practices. Nothing shocking, unusual, or wrong about them. Unless you are really just looking for nits to pick? Bill Mooney]”

At Mater Ecclesiae they do not do that, then again they are run by the Camden Diocese and not the FSSP.

However I like the second confiteor and see no personal problem with it being done…unless you are looking for nits to pick .

So I must correct myself. Most likely not the letter of the law, too stringent on abandoning pre 1962 practices…which is evident from the broadcasts from EWTN. Every time I receive holy communion I always pray the confiteor or an act of contrition while in line anyway…why not relegate that to be done beautifully sung by the MC.

Ken

 

[AJV]

I posted this same question on the CTNGREG email discussion list at yahoogroups. The response I got was the following:

“THE FSSP IN SACRAMENTO DOES ALL OF THEM!!
[Moderator’s Comment: See the documentation in the back of the annually published F.S.S.P. Ordo for an explanation of the use of various pre-1962 practices. Nothing shocking, unusual, or wrong about them. Unless you are really just looking for nits to pick? Bill Mooney]”

What does the FSSP Ordo say at the back?

 

[kleary]

What does the FSSP Ordo say at the back?

I dunno…I just asked that so I will be back with an answer.

Ken