Should We Just Toll the Death Knell for the Extraordinary Form of the Latin Rite?

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The TLM as it is celebrated today with the emphasized active participation is already a hybrid form. In its origin, and until St Pius X it was the exclusive affair between Christ and the clerics, the laity being bystanders only. Even the Gregorian chant which is now the heart of the participation was reinvented by the Solesmes monks in the 1880-s
L_L,
How can you reasonably qualify the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary as somehow “exclusionary”? That assertion flies right in the face of the words of the Consecration and shows an unsettling revisionist tendency toward viewing/intewrpreting Catholic history.

Cordially,
PAB
 
L_L,
How can you reasonably qualify the Holy Sacrifice of Calvary as somehow “exclusionary”? That assertion flies right in the face of the words of the Consecration and shows an unsettling revisionist tendency toward viewing/intewrpreting Catholic history.

Cordially,
PAB
Jesus Christ died for everyone. Many people receive the benefits of His death, the redemption.

The Mass recall this act. Between the XIX ecumenical council and St Pius X only the clergy was active in this recall, people were only present. It was ST Pius X who called the attention to the fact, that people had to be more than present.
 
Jesus Christ died for everyone. Many people receive the benefits of His death, the redemption.

The Mass recall this act. Between the XIX ecumenical council and St Pius X only the clerics was active in this recall, people were only present. It was ST Pius X who called the attention to the fact, that people had to be more than present.
I thought of you yesterday. CAF is too much in my thoughts. 🙂

Anyway, I was telling a fellow EF mass attender that I only like the missa cantatas or high masses. I do not like any mass that is silent (I guess that’s a low mass?)

She likes them.

So I told her I am glad that the EF has organically grown to include more participation, i.e., the responses by the congregation. She told me that the people were always supposed to respond but never did. I told her I thought it was different.

So is it true that the people did not respond, but were allowed to back in the day?
 
I thought of you yesterday. CAF is too much in my thoughts. 🙂

Anyway, I was telling a fellow EF mass attender that I only like the missa cantatas or high masses. I do not like any mass that is silent (I guess that’s a low mass?)

She likes them.

So I told her I am glad that the EF has organically grown to include more participation, i.e., the responses by the congregation. She told me that the people were always supposed to respond but never did. I told her I thought it was different.

So is it true that the people did not respond, but were allowed to back in the day?
As Laszlo mentioned, Pope St. Pius X encouraged the faithful in attendance at Mass to respond according to their ability to do so, so throughout the 20th century, participation by the faithful was encouraged. Prior to that time responses by the faithful in attendance varied depending on who the faithful were, where the Mass was being said (i.e. what was common in that particular country, etc.) and so forth.

I have a PDF of a German/Latin hand missal from the 1700s that was printed for use at a boys school. So those boys 300 years ago may have made responses. If not, they at least knew exactly what was going on the whole time.
 
Oftentimes I see people practically mocking people who attend the EF by stating that only a small percentage of Catholics is remotely interested in the EF

Those posts are uncharitable, sure. But are they true?

Should we just lament the passing of something great? Has the TLM seen its glory days and now it is at the twilight of its years?

It has become the Extraordinary form and never will be the Ordinary again, right?.

Should we just lament over its prominence of old and just be happy that *Ecclesia Universalis *made enough provisions that no one can stop us from having our TlMs?

How much truth is there to the claim that only a tiny, tiny fraction of Catholics who are not able to adapt, hold on to the TLM for dear life.

Anyone have any statistics?

Where do you see the Extraordinary Form going in the next 10 years?
No, I think it will grow… I think it’s growing now too. There’s more people interested in it today than 10 years ago, imo.
 
You know, we didn’t have YouTube up until about 6 years ago. I really believe blogs and sites like YouTube where one can actually see an EF mass before attending (like I did), will spur attendance tremendously as long as the EF mass itself is not suppressed.
I agree. With the internet, people can spread information very quickly.

For example, I was watching YouTube and was entranced by this video of a Latin Mass (SSPX): youtube.com/watch?v=enWiFcsBqIE

I watched it many times and (still to this day) pray that a TLM will come to our town.

In the meantime, a buddy of mine and I started a men’s Gregorian chant group, the Brazos Valley Schola Cantorum. Our membership swelled, and the local parishes book up our entire year’s worth of appearances within 3 weeks of opening up the schedule to reservations.

If a TLM comes to town, many of the men will simply be the choir for that parish. They are eager to be more than an occasional sideshow.

There is a lot of unmet interest in the EF that has yet to be realized.

Incidentally, on the above video, there is a song at 31:40 that I found the sheet music for free online. If anyone wants it, here it is:

www2.cpdl.org/wiki/images/sheet/bain-pan.pdf
 
I have a PDF of a German/Latin hand missal from the 1700s that was printed for use at a boys school. So those boys 300 years ago may have made responses. If not, they at least knew exactly what was going on the whole time.
That’s interesting as I thought handmissals weren’t really used that much in church until the period of Pius X and Leo XIII.
 
That’s interesting as I thought handmissals weren’t really used that much in church until the period of Pius X and Leo XIII.
I had a Schott (Latin German hand Missal). My copy was 19th century reprint. They were very few copies around, and such books were used to learn the altar serving, and for future priest to learn the Mass. Also priest used that to read the Gospel in German. My copy was the equivalent of the ‘Sunday Missal’, also included a set of vernacular hymns.

This did not meant active participation. To the laity to say the altar server answers was allowed first after the St Pius X reform sometimes in the 1930’s. People sung their vernacular hymns, or prayed Rosary, or other popular prayers. They were present.

Even in the 1962 Missal the communion of the laity is not part of the Mass., except for a half sentence:

Quo sumpto, si qui sunt communicandi, eos communicet

The rule was no communicants before St Pius X. The TLM today is significantly influenced by the new form.
 
It has been a difficult 40 years over here. However, the future of the EF has never been more promising!

lms.org.uk/about-us
Amen! the reason it has been not so prominent is due to the suppression that the Latin Mass has suffered over the years because they wanted to implement the NO. the holy father sees how much the people has suffered and the divisions that this has caused and he is trying to help the people by bringing it back.
 
Jesus Christ died for everyone. Many people receive the benefits of His death, the redemption.

The Mass recall this act. Between the XIX ecumenical council and St Pius X only the clergy was active in this recall, people were only present. It was ST Pius X who called the attention to the fact, that people had to be more than present.
The Mass does not Recall this act: the Mass IS the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary.
 
The Mass does not Recall this act: the Mass IS the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary.
Exactly. This is the point. Only a few women and and almost kid were even present. No human participation was required.

This is true, but since St Pius X the other side is emphasized too: we gather, we learn, we bring our offering; Jesus sacrifices himself, He invites us to His meal, He send us to the world.
 
Fortunantly the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston recongizes that many people love the TLM. St. Patrick Catholic Church in Weston West Virginia offers it on the last sunday of each month spchurchweston.net/index.html It is packed each time and there are lots of young people. Praise God

Pax Christi
:highprayer: TemplarJPN :knight2:
 
Fortunantly the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston recongizes that many people love the TLM. St. Patrick Catholic Church in Weston West Virginia offers it on the last sunday of each month spchurchweston.net/index.html It is packed each time and there are lots of young people. Praise God.
If the diocese truly recognized the value of the traditional Mass, there would be a traditional Mass in the diocese every Sunday, or even a parish in which all the sacraments are offered in the traditional form.
 
Exactly. This is the point. Only a few women and and almost kid were even present. No human participation was required.

This is true, but since St Pius X the other side is emphasized too: we gather, we learn, we bring our offering; Jesus sacrifices himself, He invites us to His meal, He send us to the world.
No woment and kids at the Mass in the olda days? I hate to saythis my friend but that has never been the case and for you to try to insinuatwe that it was is just plain wrong and totally self serving to you agenda. I’ve read more than a few of your posts, so I think I have a pretty good idea where you are coming from.
 
No woment and kids at the Mass in the olda days? I hate to saythis my friend but that has never been the case and for you to try to insinuatwe that it was is just plain wrong and totally self serving to you agenda. I’ve read more than a few of your posts, so I think I have a pretty good idea where you are coming from.
Er, I think he’s saying that “a few women and an almost-kid” (the latter perhaps meaning St. John, sometimes believed to have been a teenager during Jesus’ life) were the ones present to be with Jesus during the Crucifixion itself.

Usagi
 
If the diocese truly recognized the value of the traditional Mass, there would be a traditional Mass in the diocese every Sunday, or even a parish in which all the sacraments are offered in the traditional form.
I’m just happy its being offered and that youth are intrested it!

Pax Christi
:highprayer: TemplarJPN :knight2:
 
Er, I think he’s saying that “a few women and an almost-kid” (the latter perhaps meaning St. John, sometimes believed to have been a teenager during Jesus’ life) were the ones present to be with Jesus during the Crucifixion itself.

Usagi
That’s how I read it, too.
 
No woment and kids at the Mass in the olda days? I hate to saythis my friend but that has never been the case and for you to try to insinuatwe that it was is just plain wrong and totally self serving to you agenda. I’ve read more than a few of your posts, so I think I have a pretty good idea where you are coming from.
I talked about the Golgotha, and I believe that the Gospels are eyewitness testimonies. A few women and an almost kid young male was present in Jesus side. The rest were against Him, mocked him. On the way one thief and a centurion repented.

If you do not blieve tha Gospels, you are not Christian.
 
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