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”.
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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.