A Revised Traditional Missal

                                              

Mass facing the people could be be permitted in the Old Latin Mass as a Revised Traditional Missal could be Planned for Next Summer

from   http://www.cfnews.org/page10/page57/revised_latin_missal.html

The less good news is that the work on "a new edition of the Old Missal" has so far progressed enough that it will be published next summer so that it can be used in 2013. The key points of alteration:

• Allowance of the usage of new prefaces for all feasts, which correspond to the Novus Ordo prefaces;

• General allowance of the Traditional Mass to be celebrated "versus populum";

• Permission to say the 'Liturgy of the Word' in the language of the people [which facilitates the use of the Cramner table];

The desire for "liturgical engineering" in the appropriate Vatican authorities therefore seems unchanged -- at least in so far as it relates to a direction "away from Tradition

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