Prior to Vatican II were the Gospel readings and Homily in Latin?

[pianistclare]

Thank you.

I sincerely appreciate this kind intervention.

As for your last comment…I will admit that I miss in this forum the prerogative that was mine in the lecture hall to rebuke unto silence, or banishment, an impertinent auditor. It rarely needed to be invoked since, when it was used, it had a profoundly dire consequence for the future prospects of the one rebuked, as the rebuke was reported to the rector, the vocation director, and the bishop…and initiated a process of re-evaluation.

Yup.

Your inbox is full, Father.

 

[Chatter163]

(I will add that where the missal is shown on the Epistle Side is some four or five inches further to the right from where I would have had it.)

When the indult Mass was entrusted to me, after the petition to the bishop, I arranged the altar cards in the same arrangement that had been used some twenty years before.

Precisely. And the missal, when it is moved to the gospel side for the reading or singing of the gospel, is placed directly in front of the last gospel card. After the gospel is it moved closer to the center, to the left of the corporal.

Here is the link to which I had made reference.
catholicamericanthinker.com/Traditional-Latin-Tridentine-Mass.html

 

[PJM]

Not where I lived. No.

It’s been ALONG time ago,

But as I recall they were FIRST read in Latin and then read again in the “common language”

 

[ProVobis]

Actually, the gospel of the day and the last gospel are read in the exact same spot. The only difference is that the priest reads the proper gospel from the missal, whereas the last gospel is read from the altar card.

In the Solemn Masses the deacon sings the Latin gospel away from the altar.

 

[ProVobis]

Why is it so complicated to say “Thank you, Rather, for your information.”?
Why do people on this forum continually have to find fault in everything, and correct people who are not only much more knowledgeable but ACTUALLY HAVE CELEBRATED the Mass we are talking about?!

We are lucky that we have members of the clergy here to help us in our understanding, although, who knows for how much longer. If I were a priest or deacon, I have a feeling I would have discontinued my membership on this forum long ago.

If posts are out of place, I suggest you take them up with the moderator, not publicly humiliate them.

 

[Don_Ruggero]

Precisely. And the missal, when it is moved to the gospel side for the reading or singing of the gospel, is placed directly in front of the last gospel card. After the gospel is it moved closer to the center, to the left of the corporal.

Let me make myself perfectly clear.

I delineated where the missal was placed where I am. It was not placed as you described.

A lay person who was serving at the altar and who chose to dispute with me about my celebration of the liturgy would find their service instantly terminated and they would also be banished from a sanctuary that was under my control

I have told you what was done in my diocese…first by others and then myself…in answer to your question. I could not care less what is observed in the places of the Fraternity of Saint Peter.

I suggest you not bother to ask another liturgy question of this retired liturgy professor, as it will not be answered.

And, as a priest, I again thank Oneofthewomen for her kind and thoughtful words ad whose post I greatly appreciate. Clearly, I should have followed her lead and not taken the time to answer the question in the first place.