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How unfortunate. I’m sure that a Mozarabic Pontifical High Mass would have been an absolutely glorious thing to see.By which I mean, I’ve been checking through stuff available on the net pertaining to the rite lately and couldn’t find anything yet pertaining as to a Pontifical Mass. Perhaps the fact that subsequent Archbishops of Toledo - where the Rite is celebrated now - were generally ‘Roman’ and the fact that the celebration of the Rite was, for about six centuries now, only relegated to a few areas (say, a chapel in the Cathedral of Toledo) - and before that was decrepit almost to the point of extinction?
I did find this in the Original Catholic Encyclopedia. I think it pretty well explains the situation:
“At the present day those who belong to the Mozarabic Rite use the Roman Ritual, and, as their bishop is the Archbishop of Toledo, who is of the Roman Rite, the Roman Pontifical is also used for them. The date at which the old Spanish Ritual and Pontifical services ceased to be used is not known. The four existing manuscripts of the Liber Ordinum, which contains these services, are all of the eleventh century, and belonged either to Silos or to San Millan de la Cogolla. There are none at or from Toledo, and, when Cardinal Ximenes had the Missal and Breviary printed, there was evidently no need to print a Ritual and Pontifical, as they were probably no longer used.” – Mozarabic Rite, under VI., “Occasional Services”
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), the Mozarabic liturgy did experience a renovation around the 90’s: removing the medieval ‘accretions’ and suchlike.