We all know that Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI after 1970 overwhelmingly celebrated the public mass according to the 1969 rubrics. He also named that form as Ordinary Form, as it is opposed to the older rubric called by him Extraordinary Form. This should mean, that he accepts that changes as the changes made by the living Magisterium.
Still some people circulate less than a half dozen quotations, some of them from him, some of at least somewhat dubious origin which rejects the Ordinary Form as man made, fabricated banal.
The only proper resolution is that in the mind of of the Pope and in the reality, there are three forms of the Masses
- the Traditional Tridentine Mass
- the 1970 Mass as it is defined,and as it is celebrated by our Pope and priests faithful for the tradition of the Church
- the abused mass which wants to force the concept of ‘people’s Church’ and consequently ‘people’s Mass’ against the true Church of Jesus Christ and true Mass of Jesus Christ.
The Mass is
- gathering, leaning, offering in our part
- sacrifice for us, feeding us wioth His body and sending us to His mission by the part of our Lord Jesus Christ
As principle Jesus Christ is significantly more important than us, and to represent this in time, the Mass proper when the priest in the name of Him offers, and reenacts His sacrife, and distributes His Body has to be celebrated at least equal time interval than our part.
In the abusive Masses always the people’s part is overemphasized against Jesus Christ. Typical example was the former pastor of my territorial parish, who sat while the collections were finished, sometimes two collections consecutively, taking over 15 minutes, and because the time frame is 90 minutes, the Mass proper the sacrifice of Jesus Christ was squeezed into less than 10 minutes followed by the festive distribution by more than a dozen Extraordinary Eucharistic Ministers; totally missing the Sacrifice element of the Mass; even the bell ringing for the consecration was omitted.
This and similar ones are the man made, artificial, fabricated banal elements of the abusive masses rejected by our pope, not the 1970 Rubrics, which represent less change in the Rubrics of the Mass than St Pius X Divino Afflatu represented against the Traditional Tridentine Office.