A Primer for a Tradition-Minded Celebration of the OF Mass

Our thanks to Fr Richard Cipolla of St Mary’s Church in Norwalk, Connecticut, for sharing this article with our readers.

A PRIMER

For Priests who wish to use Mutual Enrichment to inject Tradition into the Novus Ordo Rite 

If you are a priest of the Roman Rite, as of ten years ago today, you are officially “bi-formal”; you have almost completely free access to the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite, as we now call it, in addition to the Ordinary Form.

Despite his shy and retiring character, Pope Benedict XVI braved a great deal of criticism, much of it very nasty, all of it completely unnecessary, to give you this gift, after devoting so much of his work to consideration of the Catholic Church’s liturgy problem.

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This is very good.  Number 16 is something I think about all the time.

THE CANON should be said audibly but quietly. God does not have to be shouted at, especially during this most sacred prayer of the Mass.

Amen!