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The Tridentine Mass is a term used for 's 1962 revision, and all exclude that of 1970 by Pope Paul VI and subsequent revisions. Use of the successive Tridentine-form editions of the Roman Missal was obligatory for celebrating Mass in the Latin Rite Church for four centuries, except where a liturgical rite other than the Roman Rite was in use since before 1370. With the issuance of the 1970 edition of the Missal, the Post-Tridentine form became the authorized form, but a few groups, parishes and individual priests have requested and obtained authorization to use the 1962 edition. However, some Traditionalist Catholics deny the right of the Holy See to restrict use of Tridentine-form editions of the Roman Missal, and maintain that every priest may lawfully, without asking for any authorization, use such editions, even those issued before Pope John XXIII 's 1962 revision and Pope Pius XII 's of 1955.


THE ROMAN MISSAL REVISED BY ORDER OF POPE ST. PIUS V

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At the time of the Council Of Trent , the traditions preserved in manuscript Missals and being spread because of the invention of printing varied considerably, and standardization was sought not only within individual dioceses, but throughout the Latin West. Pope St. Pius V accordingly imposed uniformity by law, exempting only rites of an antiquity greater than 200 years. Several of the rites that thus remained legitimate were progressively abandoned, though the Ambrosian Rite survives strongly in Milan , Italy and neighbouring areas, stretching even into Switzerland, and the Mozarabic Rite continues in much more limited fashion in Toledo and Madrid , Spain. The Carmelite , Carthusian and Dominican religious orders also kept their rites until the second half of the twentieth century, when they chose to adopt the Roman Rite , after this had been revised in accordance with the directives of the Second Vatican Council. The rite of Braga, Portugal seems also to have been abandoned.

Standardization was also required to safeguard against introduction into the liturgy of notions linked with the religious revolution initiated by Martin Luther , whose opinions and those of other reformers made it necessary for the Council of Trent to set forth Catholic teaching on the Eucharist in three of its sessions.


LITURGY OF THE TRIDENTINE MASS


The following is an outline description of the Roman-rite Mass as celebrated in the mid-twentieth century, including additions such as the Prayers after Mass or Leonine Prayers, introduced by Pope Leo XIII (1878-1903), but never included in the Roman Missal and not recited in Latin in English-speaking countries, unlike several other countries.

The wordings given are those found in typical Missals used by English-speaking Catholics who wanted to follow the prayers that the priest said in Latin and to which a response was usually given only by the altar servers.

  • &Query=catechumen" class="copylinks" target="_blank">catechumen were once dismissed after the first half, not having yet professed the faith. Profession of faith was considered essential for participation in the Eucharistic sacrifice, cf. Didache , ca. A.D. 140: "Let no one eat or drink of the Eucharist with you except those who have been baptized in the name of the Lord..." (Jurgens ยง6).



Mass of the Catechumens


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=Prayers at the Foot of the Altar


  • and some prayers, the priest sprinkles all in the church with holy water. This rite was in practice reserved for High Mass, and was not in use at the form of Mass that most parishioners were familiar with.


  • Sign Of The Cross

  • --- The priest makes the sign of the Cross at the foot of the altar, after processing in with the servers and placing the veiled chalice on the centre of the altar.