Passion reading cut?

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I’ve been to a TLM Palm Sunday Mass today. I’ve noticed that the Passion reading was shortened. Sounded like the Last Supper was omitted and it all started in Gethsemane. Possibly, they were saving time. Is it allowed to?
 
The Gospel for Palm Sunday in the TLM is from Matthew and begins with the Agony in the Garden. The Passion narrative was not shortened.
 
R_H_Benson said:
The Gospel for Palm Sunday in the TLM is from Matthew and begins with the Agony in the Garden. The Passion narrative was not shortened.
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Hmm… Why then, according to my Laudate App, the TLM reading is supposed to start at Matthew, 26.1? :confused: It proved correct in respect of other parts of the Mass.
 
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Hmm… Why then, according to my Laudate App, the TLM reading is supposed to start at Matthew, 26.1? :confused: It proved correct in respect of other parts of the Mass.
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Yes that is a good question. My Baronius 1962 Missal has the Passion beginning at the Agony in the Garden, and at Mass this morning, like you, I too heard the Passion beginning there. But when I looked in a Missal from 1936 I noticed that the Passion according to Matthew to be read on Palm Sunday begins before the Last Supper. I am not sure, but my guess would be that your Laudate App is not reflecting the 1962 missal?
 
I believe I found the answer:

*Synopsis of the Pius XII Reforms

In the Holy Week reform of 1955, the following changes were made to the Mass of Palm Sunday. Items two and three also apply to Holy Tuesday and Spy Wednesday.
  1. In the reform of 1955, the three synoptic Passions were shortened at the beginning; the first 35 verses of Saint Matthew were removed, the first 31 verses of Saint Mark, and the first 38 of Saint Luke. Furthermore, at the end of the Passion of Saint Matthew, the last six verses were also removed. These passages appear nowhere else in the Roman Missal, which therefore no longer contains the Gospel account of the preparations which the Lord made for the celebration of the Last Supper, the washing and anointing of His feet, the betrayal of Judas, and the Last Supper itself. From the end of the Passion of Saint Matthew was removed the account of the guard set by Pilate and the Pharisees at the tomb of Jesus, a passage which has no parallel in the other Gospels.*
 
JurisPrudens said:
Hmm… Why then, according to my Laudate App, the TLM reading is supposed to start at Matthew, 26.1? :confused: It proved correct in respect of other parts of the Mass.
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It’s correct. The full Passion is the norm for Palm Sunday in the Usus Antiquior according to the 1962 editio typica, but there is an alternate in cases of a priest’s second (or third) Mass (Mt 27, 45-52).
 
malphono said:
It’s correct. The full Passion is the norm for Palm Sunday in the Usus Antiquior, but there is an alternate in cases of a priest’s second (or third) Mass (Mt 27, 45-52).
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The shortened version that the priest is permitted to read for his second or third Mass is substantially shorter and begins at the Crucifixion. This is not what the OP was speaking of, as he mentioned that the account he heard began in Gethsemane.
 
R_H_Benson said:
The shortened version that the priest is permitted to read for his second or third mass is substantially shorter and begins at the Crucifixion.
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The scriptural citation I noted for the short Gospel was taken directly from the edito typica of 1962. 🙂
 
R_H_Benson said:
Yes, however this is not what the OP is speaking of.
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I think the point is that the preferred norm is the full Passion according to Matthew. The abbreviated reading is as cited. It would seem to me that anything other than those two is some sort of innovation.
 
malphono said:
I think the point is that the preferred norm is the full Passion according to Matthew. The abbreviated reading is as cited. It would seem to me that anything other than those two is some sort of innovation.
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The OP was using an app which displayed the pre-1955 Passion account for Palm Sunday which begins with the preparation for the Last Supper. The 1962 Passion account for Palm Sunday was shortened to begin at the Agony in the Garden. The “shortened version” which you are talking about is the version which the priest is permitted to recite if he has already recited the Passion in its entirety at a previous Mass. The OP is wondering why the Passion in his Laudate app begins with the preparation for the Last Supper while at Mass was read the account beginning at the Agony in the Garden. This would eliminate your solution because that account begins with the the Crucifixion. The only answer is that his app is reflecting a pre-1955 missal.
 
R_H_Benson said:
No need to be sorry, it is confusing. I intially assumed what you suggested was probably the answer. But a closer reading of the OP reveals that it is not the case.
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Not particularly confusing, but whatever. FWLIW the editio typica of 1920 has no short alternative. Only Matthew’s Passion (Mt 26, 1-75; 27, 1-66).
 
R_H_Benson said:
I believe I found the answer:

*Synopsis of the Pius XII Reforms

In the Holy Week reform of 1955, the following changes were made to the Mass of Palm Sunday. Items two and three also apply to Holy Tuesday and Spy Wednesday.
  1. In the reform of 1955, the three synoptic Passions were shortened at the beginning; the first 35 verses of Saint Matthew were removed, the first 31 verses of Saint Mark, and the first 38 of Saint Luke. Furthermore, at the end of the Passion of Saint Matthew, the last six verses were also removed. These passages appear nowhere else in the Roman Missal, which therefore no longer contains the Gospel account of the preparations which the Lord made for the celebration of the Last Supper, the washing and anointing of His feet, the betrayal of Judas, and the Last Supper itself. From the end of the Passion of Saint Matthew was removed the account of the guard set by Pilate and the Pharisees at the tomb of Jesus, a passage which has no parallel in the other Gospels.*
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Ok, thanks. :rolleyes:
 
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