The topic of
Quo Primum is very important.
Quote from: Pax Vobis on Today at 07:20:21 AM
As far as the coming 'hybrid' missal; this has been a long time coming. It's the logical next step for new-rome. But it will mean nothing. Unless they revise Quo Primum, then legally the 1962 missal will still exist, it will still ALWAYS be legal, and nothing will change that. is
Thanks Pax Vobis... I've been trying to wrap my mind around the importance of this issue... you seem to have confirmed what I suspected...
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Pax Vovis says, "Unless they revise
Quo Primum..." But there's a glaring problem with that.
Quo Primum is not something that can be revised.
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The Constitution of the United States can be revised, but the Magna Carta cannot be revised.
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The Encyclopedia Britannica can be revised, but the Gettysburg Address cannot be revised.
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The docuмents of Vatican II can be revised, but the Opening Speech of Vatican II given by Pope John XXIII on Oct. 11th, 1962 cannot be revised.
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For many centuries, the Canon of the Mass was said to be untouchable, but along came the Newmass and the Canon was touched.
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Modern day Newrome would like very much to revise
Quo Primum, and if there was any way they could do that, they would.
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But it cannot be done.
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In fact,
Quo Primum has been said to be "infallible."
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Now, I don't claim to be an expert on what is and what is not infallible, but I have heard experts say that
Quo Primum is infallible.
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But even if it's not strictly speaking infallible, it is still non-reformable, non-revisable, and unalterable.
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That's because it is a fact of history.
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From the time it was issued in 1572 (or thereabouts) until right around 1962,
Quo Primum was printed right inside the front cover of every altar Missal produced for the Roman Rite. It became such a fixture that any priest going to acquire a Missal or use one for Mass would always open the front cover first, and check to see that
Quo Primumi was there where it belongs. If there was no
Quo Primum there, the priest would most likely close the book and put it back, having nothing to do with it, because that one omission was not forgivable, because the presence of
Quo Primum was considered an essential element of reliability for an altar Missal.
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It has been said that the death-knell of Newchurch was when the first altar Missals were issued missing
Quo Primum inside the front cover.
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In his Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln said, "The world will little note nor long remember what we say here." He was mistaken. The world noted at once what he said and will never cease to remember it. One may wonder if perhaps Pope Pius V could have known how important his
Quo Primum would one day become or how longstanding its memory would be.
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