Re-writing the liturgy (again) . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Priests who make it up as they go along.
If you’re a daily Mass attendant, the odds are that you’ve heard General Norm 22.3 of “Sacrosanctum concilium” violated on a weekly basis.
In all the sixteen documents of the Second Vatican Council, is there any prescription more regularly violated than General Norm 22.3 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy? Which, in case you’ve forgotten, teaches that “no . . . person, not even a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority”?
The Spirit works in mysterious ways. This isn’t one of them.
If you’re a daily Mass attendant, the odds are that you hear that norm violated a dozen times a week. Sunday Mass people typically hear it violated two or three times a week, at least.
Auto-editing or flat-out rewriting the prescribed text of the Mass is virtually epidemic among priests…
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