Bad Conscience? Liturgy Prefect Attempts to Hide Huge Differences Between Roman Rite and Novus Ordo
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Roche wrote, “While the Missal retains the basic structure of that of Saint Pius V, together with 90% of the texts of that Missal, it removes a number of repetitions and accretions and simplifies the language and the gestures of the liturgy.”
Matthew Hazell clarifies on NewLiturgicalMovement.org (July 14) that Roche is “myth-making”.
Taking one example, Hazell compared the prayers contained in the Missals. To be as broad as possible, he counted an old prayer as "used" even when the Novus Ordo reformers took only a small phrase of that prayer and built a totally new prayer around it. The result: Of the 1,269 orations in the Roman Mass only 613 (48.3%) are in some way contained in the 1970 Missal.
Only 17% of the old prayers are used by the Novus Ordo without alteration - at least in its Latin version - while in the translations additional alterations have been introduced. These huge differences are not surprising since, after all, the New Rite is called "new."
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