Old Mass Shouldn't Be Called “Extraordinary” But the “More Ancient And Constant Form”

en.newsJun 5, 2018

Old Mass Shouldn't Be Called “Extraordinary” But the “More Ancient And Constant Form”

Bishop Athanasius Schneider said in a Corpus Christi homily in Winnipeg, Canada, that the Old Latin Mass should not be called “extraordinary” but the “more ancient and constant form” of Mass.

The reason: The traditional form of Mass has been celebrated in its details during more than a thousand years.

According to NewLiturgicalMovement.org, Schneider pointed out that almost all saints of the second millennium were “drawing their spiritual strength from this immemorial liturgy”.

Picture: Athanasius Schneider, © Joseph Shaw, CC BY-NC-SA, #newsAzvdcubpyn

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pwJun 5, 2018

This was one mistake of Benedict calling it extraordinary. The Mass of all Ages is the "Ordinary" form because since the early Church it has been the yardstick (Ordo) of the proper form of the Roman Mass. The Mass of Paul VI is the "extra-ordinary" form. This is not to discredit the other Eastern liturgies.

mccallansteveJun 5, 2018

How about calling it what it is; The true mass.

erroniusmonkJun 5, 2018

How about calling it the "Roman Rite"?

tbswvJun 5, 2018

Actually it is the preferred liturgy of the Catholic Faith and codified by a Pope.

prince0357Jun 5, 2018

Ritus extraordinarius ordinarius erit et Ritus Paulinus sive ordinarius moriturus.

TorkayJun 5, 2018

The term "Extraordinary Form" was a sop to the German bishops who strenuously objected to the freeing of the old Mass. But what is wrong with simply "the Traditional Mass"?

G.K.ChestertonJun 5, 2018

I am not afraid of opposition. My God is a God of battles.

yuca2111Jun 5, 2018

Fr Schneider fighting the good fight, God bless you.