What was the Mass of St. Gregory the Great like?

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Pope St. Gregory the Great (A.D. 590-604) reformed the Liturgy of the Latin Church. Is anyone aware of what the Mass would’ve looked like, very generally, in his day? What was the overall form? Was it more like a “Divine Liturgy”, or more like “the Mass”?

I have heard that St. Gregory changed the Great Litany (prayer-petitions alternating with “Kyrie eleison”, still used by the Orthodox) into the modern 3x Kyrie x3 Christe x3 Kyrie format. Anything else? 🙂
 
If memory serves me correctly, author Denis Crouan, S.T.D. gives an account of the shape of the Roman Mass at the time of St. Gregory. From what I understand it actually very closely resembled the current Ordinary Form of the Mass. Check out his book The History and Future of the Roman Liturgy.

Also, from my liturgy class way-back-when I remember my professor - a Dominican priest at a Franciscan institute - also mentioning that the early form of the Mass very closely resembled the Ordinary Form of today (or rather, vice versa).

All that being said, I’m remembering this from years ago and my memory could be off. 😛
 
Classicist said:
Brethren,

Pope St. Gregory the Great (A.D. 590-604) reformed the Liturgy of the Latin Church. Is anyone aware of what the Mass would’ve looked like, very generally, in his day? What was the overall form? Was it more like a “Divine Liturgy”, or more like “the Mass”?

I have heard that St. Gregory changed the Great Litany (prayer-petitions alternating with “Kyrie eleison”, still used by the Orthodox) into the modern 3x Kyrie x3 Christe x3 Kyrie format. Anything else? 🙂
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I think perhaps in Western Rite Orthodoxy that the Mass of St. Gregory is one of the Rites which have been resurrected for use in the Liturgy. I could be wrong on that, but I believe I read it somewhere. It may be worth asking on OrthodoxChristianity.net in the Western Rite Orthodoxy forum.
 
i agree with phillip, wiki (for what its worth) seems to concur as well en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-Tridentine_Mass

I have also heard that if you do the ordinary form in latin, with roman canon (and ad orientem, literally facing the east i mean), it’s pretty much the Mass as it was around St Gregory’s time
 
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I think perhaps in Western Rite Orthodoxy that the Mass of St. Gregory is one of the Rites which have been resurrected for use in the Liturgy. I could be wrong on that, but I believe I read it somewhere. It may be worth asking on OrthodoxChristianity.net in the Western Rite Orthodoxy forum.
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actually what they use in the “Mass of St Gregory” is pretty much a direct Tridentine Mass translation to the vernacular but with “byzantinizations”

they also use a “liturgy of St Tikhon” for their anglican heritage parishes which is the Book of Common Prayer, also with “byzantinization” and some other modifications
 
Sybok said:
actually what they use in the “Mass of St Gregory” is pretty much a direct Tridentine Mass translation to the vernacular but with “byzantinizations”

they also use a “liturgy of St Tikhon” for their anglican heritage parishes which is the Book of Common Prayer, also with “byzantinization” and some other modifications
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Some, but they used some older texts as well in the Mass of St. Gregory to my understanding.
 
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