Simple question...

[benedictgal]

That’s a matter of opinion. Purely subjective.

If the priest omits anything from the GIRM or Missal, that’s a problem.

Actually, the Holy Father and Archbishop Ranjinth stated the same thing. Secularizing the Mass is a huge problem. We need to remember that we are entering God’s time, not ours. The Mass is not some warm and fuzzy get together. It is the Church’s chief public act of worship.

Furthermore, the celebrant does not have the right to add anything to the Missal on his own authority. Adding something to the Mass is just as problematic as omitting something from the Holy Sacrifice.

 

[diggerdomer]

Actually, the Holy Father and Archbishop Ranjinth stated the same thing. Secularizing the Mass is a huge problem. We need to remember that we are entering God’s time, not ours. The Mass is not some warm and fuzzy get together. It is the Church’s chief public act of worship.

Furthermore, the celebrant does not have the right to add anything to the Missal on his own authority. Adding something to the Mass is just as problematic as omitting something from the Holy Sacrifice.

Saying “good morning” (or similar) is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

I don’t know where the comment about secularizing the Mass came from, I didn’t catch that idea on this thread, but certainly if someone did that it is obviously wrong.

 

[benedictgal]

Saying “good morning” (or similar) is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

I don’t know where the comment about secularizing the Mass came from, I didn’t catch that idea on this thread, but certainly if someone did that it is obviously wrong.

Actually, using Good Morning is not appropriate to begin the Mass. The Mass already has a beginning. It begins with the Sign of the Cross. Starting off with “Good Morning” is wrong.

With all due respect, perhaps you need to read The Spirit of the Liturgy by Pope Benedict XVI. It may prove most edifying for you.

 

[japhy]

Saying “good morning” (or similar) is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

I don’t follow your logic here. It seems like you could just as easily have said:

Playing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” while handing out Hershey’s Kisses, between Communion and the Prayer after Communion, at Mass on St. Valentine’s day is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

or:

A priest wearing a Halloween costume is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

I suppose the point you’re making is that the priest isn’t “adding something to the Missal”, but rather, “adding something to the liturgy”? That is, he’s not tampering with the Missal book itself, but with the celebration of the liturgy?

 

[diggerdomer]

Actually, using Good Morning is not appropriate to begin the Mass. The Mass already has a beginning. It begins with the Sign of the Cross. Starting off with “Good Morning” is wrong.

With all due respect, perhaps you need to read The Spirit of the Liturgy by Pope Benedict XVI. It may prove most edifying for you.

Of course the Mass begins with the Sign of the Cross. I never said it shouldn’t, nor excused those who for some unfathomable reason would not begin Mass that way.

Yes, Benedict’s writings are edifying, I agree. Glad you enjoy them too!

 

[diggerdomer]

I don’t follow your logic here. It seems like you could just as easily have said:

Playing “Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” while handing out Hershey’s Kisses, between Communion and the Prayer after Communion, at Mass on St. Valentine’s day is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

or:

A priest wearing a Halloween costume is not adding something to the Missal. Only the Church can add something to the Missal.

I suppose the point you’re making is that the priest isn’t “adding something to the Missal”, but rather, “adding something to the liturgy”? That is, he’s not tampering with the Missal book itself, but with the celebration of the liturgy?

Yes.