Technically, the Second Confiteor has been discontinued in the 1962 Missal. But it is recited by the servers, not the priest, and does lead a little easier into the Misereatur, the Absolutionem, and Domine, Non Sum Dignus. (I don’t know if the Misereatur had been discontinued as well.)
In any case, I have not seen any protests where I attend Mass over it.
I think it would be really wise for us Traditional Catholics to NOT nit-pick the missal of 1962. (and I know you aren’t doing this.)I am so happy that Pope Benedict is working hard to give us the TLM that the issue of the servers saying second Confiteor really doesn’t matter. I guess that I’m afraid someone is going to take this away from me at any moment.
One of the things that so pleases me is the recitation of the Roman Canon. I have regained some of my heritage, I’d almost forgotten that I am a part of something bigger by the very fact that I am Catholic. I have a community that is 2,000 years old & filled with people who have stuggled & overcome & became Saints while doing so:
. Communicantes, et memoriam venerantes in primis gloriosae semper
Virginis Mariae, Genitricis Dei et Domini nostri Jesu Christi: sed et beati
Joseph ejusdem Virginis Sponsi, et beatorum** Apostolorum ac Martyrum tuorum, Petri et Pauli, Andreae, Jacobi, Joannis, Thomae, Jacobi, Philippi, Bartholomaei, Matthaei, Simonis, et Thaddaei: Lini, Cleti, Clementis, Xysti, Cornelii, Cypriani, Laurentii, Chrysogoni, Joannis et Pauli, Cosmae et Damiani, et omnium Sanctorum tuorum; quorum meritis precibusque concedas, ut in omnibus protectionis tuae muniamur auxilio. **Per eundem Christum Dominum nostrum. Amen.
Oramus te. Domine, per merita Sanctorum tuorum, quorum reliquiae hic sunt, et omnium Sanctorum: ut indulgere digneris omnia peccata mea. Amen.
(. We beseech You, O Lord, **by the merits of Your Saints whose relics lie here, and of all the Saints, deign in your mercy to **pardon me all my sins. Amen.
I hadn’t thought of Pope St. Sixtus in YEARS, martyred in the earliest days of the Church because he defended the faith that I might have it today. Cyprian, Cornelius, Clement…those who built & suffered & died in order to protect Christ’s fledgling Church, they are all part of the same Community of Saints that I, a lowly sinner, belong to. It boggles the mind.