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| Quicunque vult | Saturday, 4. July 2009, 14:42 |
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Another common misconception is that the Tridentine Mass was a new form of Mass. It was rather a standardisation of the different local Uses of the Roman Rite in use before the Council of Trent, some of them very ancient, one of which was the Sarum Use. The Tridentine Mass is very similar to the Sarum Use. Most of the elements are the same, including for example the Canon of the Mass (what is now the First Eucharistic Prayer in the Ordinary Form). To say that the Sarum Use forms the basis of the Anglican Book of Common Prayer may be true in one sense, but the latter omits most of the Catholic theology and ritual while introducing some entirely new protestant material. The Tridentine Mass is much, much closer to the Sarum Use. The term "Tridentine Mass" is a misnomer. We are now being encouraged to call it the "Gregorian Mass", as in most respects it is the same form of Mass used by Pope Gregory the Great in the 6th Century. The Council of Trent did not overrule all local variations. The Sarum Use could have been retained if England had remained a Catholic country, but in practice the priests who were trained abroad used the "Tridentine" form. Reintroduction of the Sarum Use was considered when the Hierarchy was restored in the 19th Century, but the decision was made to continue using the "Tridentine" form. QV |
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