I do not understand it, so perhaps you or prayinglatin could explain further.
Some common abuses I used to see on a regular basis when attending the OF include:ConcernedConvert:
I do not understand it, so perhaps you or prayinglatin could explain further.
When you talk about “abuses” do you mean things that the Church, ie the Vatican, defines as abuses? Or do you mean things the Church used to define as abuses? Prayinglatin has referred to Pius XII’s Mediator Dei in his description of abuses, which I find inappropriate since the reform inspired by MD has changed the law on many of those things.
Do you know both forms of the Roman Rite well enough to judge abuses equally? I could recognize abuses in the OF, but not notice any in an Orthodox Jewish service. That does not mean much.
What is the way you are measuring abuses? Is Mass in Latin an abuse, since it does not address the pastoral needs of most people? Is adding a didactic commentary, explaining the ritual as it happens, an abuse? In both rites, neither, or in just one?
Is this an abuse technically speaking? The others I agree, they are abuses, although in my case (and place) I don’t see them.
Not unprecedented. Every reformer says “In general, I still respect the authority, but in this UNIQUE situation we reluctantly have to set aside certain extreme abuses of popes and bishops that are total disconnected from Catholic Tradition, in order to preserve that Tradition during the present emergency”.
You would have to ask the SSPX priest serving the chapel. The laity cannot speak for the society.
Because Vatican forbid it as imprudent to place it on the side.
Oh, well, it is easy, really. You find authoritative document that forbids it or discourages it heavily, and then you know it is an abuse. Also, generally, if it is not allowed it should not be done- Mass is already structured in form it has, no need to add anything else to it which is not explicitly allowed.
Did they forbid it or say it was imprudent? What is their example, so we can understand how binding this prohibition is? Do they have the tabernacle front and center in all their churches? When did they forbid it? Redemptionis Sacramentum 130 just quotes Paul VI’s rules which do not say that.
I agree.
No, though I am aware that some people do. It is known EF is mostly done by Priests who tend to be very strict on how to celebrate it- of course, that was not always the case historically (pre-V2 it was full of liturgical abuses). It pretty complicated and many things Priest does are not seen or heard by people in the pews, so abuses are not as easy to see either. All in all though, it is known some Priests improvise during OF, not so much during EF.
"The Blessed Sacrament should be reserved in a solid, inviolable tabernacle in the middle of the main altar or on a side altar, but in a truly prominent place. Alternatively, according to legitimate customs and in individual cases to be decided by the local ordinary, it may be placed in some other part of the church which is really worthy and properly equipped” - Instruction on the Worship of the Eucharist Mystery ( Eucharisticum Mysterium )
Perhaps the incapacitated attendant might request a dispensation?