From Peter A. Kwasniewski’s How the Liturgical Reform and the Contemporary Ars Celebrandi Are Remote Contributors to the Crisis on Marriage and Family© 2015:
It might be assumed that once the compilers of the new lectionary of readings decided on a three-year Sunday cycle and a two-year weekday cycle, they would not fail to include in their new lectionary all of the readings from the traditional Roman liturgy, and that, in their march through various books of the Bible, they would not omit any key passages.
You would think so.
Instead, they made a programmatic decision to avoid what they judged to be “difficult” biblical texts [in part because] such texts would be more difficult for the faithful to understand.
Huh. Spare the people conundrums.
Be that as it may, these verses from 1 Corinthians 11 did not make it past the cutting board, never appear in the new mass readings:
“. . . whosoever shall eat this bread, or drink of the chalice of the Lord unworthily,
shall be guilty of the Body and of the Blood of the Lord.“But let a man prove himself; and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of the chalice.
“For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself, not discerning the Body of the Lord.” (verses 27-29)
Never appear? Never.
So the allowing of all and sundry to communion, a major issue in new-church politics, can’t readily be shot down by this presumably confusing passage at any new mass during the mere decades-old choice by some apparatchiks of the 1960s?
Right.
Now what kind of organization would ignore, in this case erase, a basic statement that cuts at the heart of its existence?
Paul, with Peter one of the earthly very founders of the church as we know it, said it. The fixers paid no attention to it and made sure pew-sitters would not be reminded of it.
We are to ignore — misrepresent — something as crucial as who is worthy to take the Eucharist? Because it’s too hard a sell? So we have a liturgy cleansed of the hard-to-take?
Good luck with that, people. This be a counterfeit version meant to leave members undisturbed, relaxed, happy with themselves and they better be, or they be telling us goodbye?
It would seem so, in that for “almost half a century, St. Paul’s warning against receiving the Body and Blood of the Lord unworthily, unto one’s damnation, has not been read at any Ordinary Form Mass.
A warning that “in the traditional Latin Mass,” whose readings were called “too restricted,” these verses are heard “at least three times every year, once on Holy Thursday, and twice on Corpus Christi, in the Epistle and the Communion antiphon.”
Hmm.
Blithe Spirit 