Did Lefebvre set back the Universal Indult by 20 years?
http://cathinfo-warning-pornography!/Ignis_Ardens/index.php?showtopic=517
http://irishcatholics.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tlm&action=display&thread=142&page=131. The foundation of Una Voce in 1964, first in Norway but spreading to many countries (only hitting Ireland in the 1990s though) - an international lay organisation which pre-dates the SSPX.
2. Opus Sacerdotale in France which is the predecessor of the Institute of Christ the King. The members of this said the traditional Mass without any interdict or other sanction for years.
3. A parrallel movement in Spain reported in a recent Brandsma Review article.
4. Petitioners in England behind Cardinal Heenan's 1971 indult for England and Wales (the same year the SSPX was only established. Its first priests worked under this until the Archbishop's suspension in the 1976).
My point is that to attribute the survival of the traditional Mass exclusively to the SSPX would be wrong. In the case of point 4, there was clearly a continuity of permission for the old Mass.
Yes, we need a historian of the traditional movement.
There was a lot more than that going on.
There were quite a number of priests who got ordained in diocesan seminaries in Spain as what was then known under the old code of canon law as "family priests". It doesn't exist in the new code but there are quite a few priests from that time still around that say the old Mass in various dioceses around Europe and perhaps elsewhere. Of course the diocese of Avelino in Italy provided another place for tradition- minded candidates to go and get ordained. Several groups, some good, some not so good can be traced to here. Cardinal Siri took several groups under his tutelage. Some were very conservative like the Communaute St Martin while others like Opus Sacerdotal leaned heavily toward tradition.
I mentioned De Pauw because he was so early and independent of Lefebvre, not because I care for him (from what I heard - and I don't know much detail) he was at least quasi-schismatic.
I must say that the extent of what Benedict describes startles me, though I knew about the indult in England and Wales. this may be a problem for traditionalists. THe SSPX have a clear narrative and a central focus on the figure of Lefebvre, and as the original generation who remember what happened dies off this makes it easier for people to equate the SSPX with the whole traditionalist movement.
BTW we could do with somebody recording the history of Irish traditionalism/orthodox Catholicism as the generation who went through the last few decades dies off. So much of its history is being written by the Diarmuid Ferriter/John Cooney types and this is now percolating through the school and university curriculum. So many trads seem to exist in a sort of eternal present, in which we do not remember/record our past actions and so cannot learn from them.
UV predates the SSPX by about seven years, and secondly, Eric de Saventhem (1st president of UV) was a generous benefactor to Mgr LeFebvre from the beginning.
Bishop de Castro Meyer, who began independently of Mgr LeFebvre and who did not come under censure until 1981.
1. The Mass of Paul VI, at present called the Ordinary Form of the Roman Rite, is the True Mass when celebrate according to the rubrics and with the correct intention. The late Archbishop LeFebvre celebrated it himself on a few occasions (see his biography by Bishop Bernard Tissier de Mallerais of the SSPX if you don't believe me).
d. The 1971 Cardinal Heenan Indult enabled the Mass of St Pius V be said in the dioceses of England and Wales. This was granted before any priests of the SSPX were ordained.
http://thesplendorofthechurch.blogspot.com/2010/09/my-journey-out-of-lefebvre-schism-by.htmlAcrogenic Concilium - Reform of the Sacred Liturgy
Quote from Sacrosanctum Concilium calling for the "restoration" of the Liturgy:
Quote:
III. The Reform of the Sacred Liturgy
21. In order that the Christian people may more certainly derive an abundance of graces from the sacred liturgy, holy Mother Church desires to undertake with great care a general restoration of the liturgy itself. For the liturgy is made up of immutable elements divinely instituted, and of elements subject to change. These not only may but ought to be changed with the passage of time if they have suffered from the intrusion of anything out of harmony with the inner nature of the liturgy or have become unsuited to it.
In this restoration, both texts and rites should be drawn up so that they express more clearly the holy things which they signify; the Christian people, so far as possible, should be enabled to understand them with ease and to take part in them fully, actively, and as befits a community.
The Apostolic Constitution of Pope St Pius V entitled "Quo Primum," makes reference to the need to restore the Sacred Liturgy. The result of this restoration was the Tridentine Mass.
Quote from Quo Primum:
Quote:
We decided to entrust this work to learned men of our selection. They very carefully collated all their work with the ancient codices in Our Vatican Library and with reliable, preserved or emended codices from elsewhere. Besides this, these men consulted the works of ancient and approved authors concerning the same sacred rites; and thus they have restored the Missal itself to the original form and rite of the holy Fathers. When this work has been gone over numerous times and further emended, after serious study and reflection, We commanded that the finished product be printed and published as soon as possible, so that all might enjoy the fruits of this labor; and thus, priests would know which prayers to use and which rites and ceremonies they were required to observe from now on in the celebration of Masses.
The Tridentine Mass and the Mass of Paul VI both claim to be restorations of the Sacred Liturgy. St. Pius V said his Mass was "the original form and rite of the holy Fathers". Sacrosanctum Concilium states the need for the Mass to be restored to something more ancient. If the Tridentine Mass truly was the "original form and rite of the holy Fathers" why the need for restoration? The TLM itself was a restoration.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1630784/postsMany quotes from Reform of the Roman Liturgy: Its problems and Background by Msgr. Klaus Gamber
http://catholicdefense.blogspot.com/2011/07/reform-of-reform.htmlBook review of Reform of the Reform: A Liturgical Debate by Fr. Thomas M. Kocik
The Organic Development of the Liturgy by Dom alcuin Reid:
St. Pius V wanted to restore it to the form and rite of the Fathers. However his scholars did not have adequate materials and mostly examined ones that went back to the 12th-13th century and also did so in haste. Consequently, the rite of 1570 still contains a lot of the mediaeval accretions and is not the rite of the Fathers. Since then more materials have come to light and there is better correlation and dissemination of existing materials. Thus the rite of the Fathers that St. Pius V aspired to can be more closely followed. And that is what we will do.
Paul VI wrote:
Quote:
Since then, however, more ancient liturgical sources have been discovered and published and at the same time liturgical formulas of the Oriental Church have become better known. Many wish that the riches, both doctrinal and spiritual, might not be hidden in the darkness of the libraries, but on the contrary might be brought into the light to illumine and nourish the spirits and souls of Christians.
Quote:
Manuscripts in the Vatican Library provided some verbal emendations, but they seldom allowed research into "ancient and approved authors" to extend beyond the examination of a few liturgical commentaries of the Middle Ages.. Today, on the other hand, countless studies of scholars have enriched the "tradition of the Fathers" that the revisers of the Missal under St. Pius V followed. After the Gregorian Sacramentary was first published in 1571, many critical editions of other ancient Roman and Ambrosian sacramentaries appeared. Ancient Spanish and Gallican liturgical books also became available, bringing to light many prayers of profound spirituality that had hitherto been unknown. Traditions dating back to the first centuries before the formation of the Eastern and Western rites are also better known today because so many liturgical docuмents have been discovered. The continuing progress in patristic studies has also illumined eucharistic theology through the teachings of such illustrious saints of Christian antiquity as Irenaeus, Ambrose, Cyril of Jerusalem, and John Chrysostom.
http://matt1618.freeyellow.com/appendixa.htmlhttp://wdtprs.com/blog/2009/04/podcazt-84-st-pius-v-and-quo-primum/http://stjosephplacentia.org/RCath-L/Val_Mass.htmhttp://www.cuf.org/faithfacts/details_view.asp?ffID=185