Annual Basic Training vs. Running from the Truth

The Mass Epistles of Lenten Sundays: A Case Study of Rupture in the Lex Orandi

One of the most striking areas of rupture and discontinuity between the Roman Rite and the modern rite of Paul VI is to be found in the passages of Scripture read on Sundays. The annual cycle of the old Missal, embodying the practice of well over a millennium, puts before the Christian people year after year essential truths of the spiritual life and fu…