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Eric S's avatar

It really is amazing if you look at the published editions of the Gregorian Sacramentary that are based on the manuscript that was sent by the pope to Charlemagne at the end of the 700s how many of the Collect prayer are identical to those in the 1962 missal. It is really breathtaking.

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Peter Kwasniewski's avatar

Yes. There was a point when I realized, "Oh wait - the Latin Mass as we have it today clearly goes back to the earliest centuries of the Latin Fathers of the Church. Okay. And the Novus Ordo was the cobbled-together brainchild of the hippies in power in the 1960s. Well, it's not a hard choice as to which is the real worship of the Catholic Church." Granted, this creates an apocalyptic crisis of ecclesiology, but hey, welcome to 2024.

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