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God bless Fr. Joseph Fessio

“On the Celebration of Mass”

A ciborium at the chapel entrance? Mass ad orientem? Chanting…in Latin?! Praying the Roman Canon/Eucharistic Prayer I…in Latin? Not yelling or reprimanding people for receiving Communion kneeling? You can do all this at the novus Ordo Missæ without permission?

It reminds me of a remark made by Una Voce’s Michael Davies, “If everyone had celebrated the Mass of Paul VI as they do at Brompton, there would not have been any problems.” (Denis Crouan, The Liturgy After Vatican II (Ignatius Press), p. 14.)

If Mr. Crouan didn’t take Mr. Davies’ statement out of context, what a telling statement it is.

Posted 05.10.2003
by Aristotle Esguerra
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5 Comments

A most interesting article.

While I agree with Fr. Fessio on most points, I am troubled by the mistake he makes as to the meaning of the word “extraordinary” in relation to lay Eucharistic ministers.

(I suspect he knows the truth, but it would not have suited the thrust of his article.)


geraldine
05.11.2003 @ 11:47 am #

Extraordinary is just that, when the number of communicants gets too much for the ordinary ministers of the Eucharist, the priests and deacons, then they must be used, but if there are enough ordinary eucharistic ministers, EEMs should not be used.


John B
05.12.2003 @ 3:49 am #

Geraldine,
Check out the Vatican’s On Certain Questions Regarding The Collaboration of the Non-Ordained Faithful in the Sacred Ministry of Priest, especially Article 8.

I’m afraid that Fr. Fessio is up to the minute in knowing what the state of the law, the meaning of the liturgy, and the mind of the Church are. It is American liturgists who are behind!


Mark Wyman
05.12.2003 @ 10:56 am #

Thanks for the link.
I’m not arguing against anything in the Vatican document.
I think the common over-use of the non-ordained is shameful, I am glad the Church is starting to crack down on the confusing and illicit practice of having the EMs stand around the altar as if priests, etc.
I would prefer they were NEVER used.
But the word “Extraordinary” when applied to the Ministers themselves means “not ordained,” not “not the normal practice.”
(”Extraordinary” applied to their USE rather than to THEM, on the other hand, may rightly be said to mean “not the normal practice.”)


Geraldine
05.13.2003 @ 10:40 am #

Novus Ordo as Paul VI Intended

This article, by Joanna Bogle, first appeared in the Adoremus Bulletin: Online Edition in September 1998. It talks about the Brompton Oratory, which is actually the London Oratory on Brompton, and how the Novus Ordo is done as it should…


Rex Olandi Rex Cledendi
05.19.2004 @ 7:28 am #

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