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Anyone who has seen a Roman missal from 1962 that has had all the āadaptationsā incorporated will see graphically the extent of the attack on the traditional liturgy. Page after page containing the Proper of the Mass showing manuscript deletions, scrawled insertions, signs of the Cross with X after X deletions bearing clear and public testimony to the deliberate and enforced dilution of the sacred and of those aspects particularly Catholic. And the abolition of the many references in the rubrics to genuflections during and after the Consecration with the obvious intention to diminish respect for the Real Presence. By 1967, the vandalised Missal of 1962 that was still being used as the basis for the celebration of Holy Mass, provided stark testimony on page after page, of the deliberate and sustained attack on the missal of every pope from John XXIII, going back through St. Pius X to St. Pius V in 1570 who promulgated it after the historic Council of Trent. A 400 year-old treasure, with a pedigree of nearly 2000 years being reduced to a hybrid of incongruous elements. Was there not something in the Liturgy Constitution of Vatican II about Holy Mother Church holding āall lawfully recognised rites to be of equal right and dignity, that she wishes to preserve them in the future and to foster them in every wayā, (n4); and āthat any new forms adopted in some way grow organically from forms already existingā (n23).
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It quickly got looser and looser until the second incarnation of 1967 came about. At that point, it had essentially lost its character and was so stripped-down that it became nothing more than the precursor to the what is now called the OF. By that point, too, the liturgical free-for-all was in full swing.