For a few years, I used to hear all three Masses on Christmas and Easter because I was driving 4 hours one way with nowhere to stay. I always went to Confession on Good Friday, then headed home late Sunday. At Christmas, depending upon which day of the week it fell in relation to Sunday, I’d drive and just sleep, sort of, in the car rather than choosing between hearing Mass on Sunday or on the major Holiday. Hotels were just far too expensive. (The few that weren’t were not the sort of places a Catholic ought to be seen.) “Sleeping” in my car way back of the parking lot, or later, when they started locking the gate, driving to the far back end of the cemetery where there were graves in the woods, the old stones no longer attended, but a car couldn’t be seen from either the road or the church, wasn’t the safest, either. I was in my 40’s back then and a lot physically heartier. I’m glad I was a bit fanatic as some labeled me, and went very often to Mass, prayers, adult catechisms, doing some rather unusual or “foolish” things. Because now I’m in different circumstances and consider it a blessing to hear Mass and receive the Sacraments once every four to eight weeks.
I would only add that the experimental Novus Ordo HOly Week rites of Pius XII were not the first salvo toward the modernist revision of the entire Latin Rite. Prior to the 1951-1955 changes was the introduction of the so-called Dialogue Mass. which actually set the stage for further experimentation in the 1950s reform of the Holy Week.
Was the Midnight Christmas Mass a “55” change or a post Vatican II novelty? I didn’t realize that the Midnight Mass wasn’t “Traditional”. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I am a I guess what you would call a Conciliar Catholic. The earliest Midnight Mass and tradition of it is from the East according the the Catholic Encyclopedia at Newadvent starting late 4th century and appears in Rome by around 430 AD. The change to the Missal in 1955 was related to Holy Week, not Christmas Liturgies.
For a few years, I used to hear all three Masses on Christmas and Easter because I was driving 4 hours one way with nowhere to stay. I always went to Confession on Good Friday, then headed home late Sunday. At Christmas, depending upon which day of the week it fell in relation to Sunday, I’d drive and just sleep, sort of, in the car rather than choosing between hearing Mass on Sunday or on the major Holiday. Hotels were just far too expensive. (The few that weren’t were not the sort of places a Catholic ought to be seen.) “Sleeping” in my car way back of the parking lot, or later, when they started locking the gate, driving to the far back end of the cemetery where there were graves in the woods, the old stones no longer attended, but a car couldn’t be seen from either the road or the church, wasn’t the safest, either. I was in my 40’s back then and a lot physically heartier. I’m glad I was a bit fanatic as some labeled me, and went very often to Mass, prayers, adult catechisms, doing some rather unusual or “foolish” things. Because now I’m in different circumstances and consider it a blessing to hear Mass and receive the Sacraments once every four to eight weeks.
I would only add that the experimental Novus Ordo HOly Week rites of Pius XII were not the first salvo toward the modernist revision of the entire Latin Rite. Prior to the 1951-1955 changes was the introduction of the so-called Dialogue Mass. which actually set the stage for further experimentation in the 1950s reform of the Holy Week.
St Andrew's is a good one
Was the Midnight Christmas Mass a “55” change or a post Vatican II novelty? I didn’t realize that the Midnight Mass wasn’t “Traditional”. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
I am a I guess what you would call a Conciliar Catholic. The earliest Midnight Mass and tradition of it is from the East according the the Catholic Encyclopedia at Newadvent starting late 4th century and appears in Rome by around 430 AD. The change to the Missal in 1955 was related to Holy Week, not Christmas Liturgies.
Could someone please provide me with the ISBN of the book reviewed?
The French version is free on archive as 'LA SEMAINE SAINTE RÉFORMÉE SOUS PIE XII'.
Hello! What daily Missal us the best for Pre '55 Liturgy? Thank you +GB+
I know the seminary recommends the New Roman Missal by Fr Lasance