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form.) The restauration of the Litany Kyrie Puerorum was, of course, out of the question, in spite of the fact that it could be easily identified with the darling of the Bugnini liturgy, the Preces. In the Bugnini liturgy in the place of the Officium Tenebrarum we can find a meticulously elaborated, ordinary daily Office. Some antiphons and responsories selected from the Roman rite appear here and there, yet the Office itself — preserved thus far in every tradition as the fundamental heritage of the Roman liturgy - was eliminated after a life of at least 1500 years. 5. The "theme" of the liturgy on MAUNDAY THURSDAY is not the institution of the Eucharist but the whole Paschal Mystery, similarly to Good Friday or Easter Sunday. The classics of liturgical doctrine explained repeatedly that during these holy days our Passover celebration always recalled the memory of Christ's Paschal mystery in its integrity. On a given day some aspects may gain prevalence above the others but always as part of the whole, in close connection with it. Even when viewed separately, the specific content of Maundy Thursday can be regarded as multi-layered combining various elements of the Last Supper, the Lord's Last Sermon, his apprehension and interrogation (chronologically the first events of his Passion). The feelings vibrating in the soul of the Church correspond to the two sayings of the Lord: "With desire I have desired..." - and "Father, if you will..." The reason why in the Middle Ages the Church felt the need to create the Feast of Corpus Domini is because she realized that Maundy Thursday was not the feast of the institution of the Eucharist. Maundy Thursday is a day of the celebration of the Paschal Mystery, a day of the celebration of the Passion, a day of presenting the Redemption through mysteries — and in this context and among other motives only — the remembrance of the institution of the Eucharist. This complexity manifests itself within the Mass, too. The Introit (Nos autem gloriari), the Gradual {Christus factus est) and the Offertory (Dextern Domini) refer to the fundamental element of the celebration, i.e. the whole Paschal Mystery. The Gospel recalls the washing of the disciples' feet, the original oration puts the motive of Judas's betrayal into the context of the Holy Week as a whole. 30
This statement will prove to be even more valid in view of the fact that the liturgy of Maundy Thursday was not confined to the celebration of the Mass. In the animate medieval liturgy the Mass was followed by a tremendous complexity of rites designated Mandatum (see: "Maundy" Thursday). In this rite the washing of feet, the cultic reading of the Last Sermon, the ritual meal (agape), the pious veneration of the altars were all combined to a homogenous sequence of events of dramatic nature. The whole was accompanied by a completely matching set of texts and chants. Besides, we have to mention the ceremony of the "Reconciliation of Penitents" taking place in the morning of this day It had survived in some religious orders as a rite of purification up to the recent past closing down the Lenten period and preparing the souls directly for Easter. (It is remarkable that some religious orders stressed the unity of this set of rites by taking out the Office and the Mass from the Antiphonaries and Graduals and including them into the Processional as parts of a coherent action.) The Trident rite may already be blamed for initiating a process which impoverished this liturgically complex and rich day. It turned the ceremony of washing the feet into a separate celebration confined to cathedrals. The veneration of the altars was simplified to a mere divestment of altars accompanied by a murmured psalm. The symbolic agape and all the other elements of the Mandatum were naturally omitted and the "Reconciliation of Penitents" was simply forgotten. The innovation of the reform of Pope Pius XII was to split the Mass into two, making a morning Mass with the benediction of chrism for the cathedrals and an evening Mass with the memory of the Last Supper for all churches. This was the first ordo which suggested that the ceremony of the washing of feet should be included into the Mass (after the Gospel), leaving the rites otherwise unchanged. Reformers after the Second Vatican Council could have come to the conclusion that their task was to restore the rich liturgy of the Holy Week, marking those simplifications which the small parish churches could carry out with the least possible loss. Instead, recent reforms took the averagesize parish church for a point of departure and made its supposed potentials to norm. Based on theoretical considerations, the evening Mass on Maunday Thursday was made the beginning of the triduum sacrum and thus both the Officium Tenebrarum of this day and the morning Mass with the benediction of the chrism were excluded. The Institution of the Eucharist was proposed as the principal message of the Mass, and so the meaning 31
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Page 9 and 10: Introduction The growing displeasur
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Page 19 and 20: The Constitution on the sacred litu
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Page 29: with the other members of the Roman
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Page 35 and 36: The culmination of the Good Friday
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Page 39 and 40: many churches by a threefold intona
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Page 43 and 44: lows us to sing anything during the
Page 45 and 46: 3. THE DIVINE OFFICE In the most sp
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Page 49 and 50: fulfillment, from Creation (psalms)
Page 51 and 52: day and the feasts is regulated by
Page 53 and 54: Within this framework the Roman Off
Page 55 and 56: the priests' spirituality. At the e
Page 57 and 58: weakly remained in effect, the basi
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Page 63 and 64: I do not know what the "true spirit
Page 65 and 66: In the process of practical impleme
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Page 71 and 72: One solution could be the construct
Page 73 and 74: priests should be prepared to be ab
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Page 77 and 78: The psalm selection of LAUDS goes b
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hymn at all. There is, however, a s
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Vigil antiphons for Sunday are sele
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4. The Chants of the Proprium Missa
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munion chants in the Graduate Roman
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of our own day should not be unwort
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selections from classical Christian
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sies. Can we possibly say that toda
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tui." The womb of Mary is the soil
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With this in mind, I ask once more:
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Exactly when and how this "properiz
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As far as its formal aspect is conc
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tence. The creation of individual p
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efforts in recent centuries would h
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Along with the other texts, the Pro
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tion. General congregational partic
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largely on recurring (and hence eas
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the inner nature of the liturgy and
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Masses" of a well-provided parish c
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this permission is counterbalanced
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oth the great and significant relig
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5. The Readings of the Mass and the
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Which are the "important and essent
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ut adds the inquiry of the publican
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showed the catechumens the image of
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Pentecost now has a new Gospel, the
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days). Peter's confession is on the
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takes the scroll, reads it aloud, a
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to appropriate analogies from the h
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mitted in the Lectionary) do provid
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week. The arguments on behalf of th
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I also regret the new position of t
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iods of the per annum season cannot
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The rituals made a careful record (
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6. The Tridentine Movement and the
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I. What is the "traditional Roman l
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The geographical (or rather, instit
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And thus many rich elements of the
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However, the conclusion is quite di
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the whole of Catholic doctrine, and
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Gospel is the Word of the Living Ch
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merits, that moral life: fraternal
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and doctrinally rich Sequences for
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pie to the traditional Roman liturg
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traordinary cases be read, the firs
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We cannot postulate, of course, the
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But on the other hand, it cannot be
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emain unchanged, they are easy to l
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5. The simple fact of translation h
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In arguing both on behalf of the "T
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permits absolutely no change. If ch
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most frivolous music resounds witho
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e concordant with the voice. It is
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3. The third problem with the new s
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the nouvelk theologie) of worship a
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of the liturgical parts; allows the
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efore the Mass: and introductory fo
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music will be able to contribute to
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But there is a more deeply rooted m
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the liturgy has been abandoned, and
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of compromises was fulfilled: what
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they are not opposites. At the same
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Urformen. the two 'opposite' qualit
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melody (with a result unsatisfactor
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the State became more liberal and t
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side the liturgy: preaching, proces
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case of Mozart's church music calle
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text had its own melody. Choirs, or
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abandoned by a new priest in favor
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when the day of true reform dawns,
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