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The Plain Man’s Guide

October 31, 2006 |

I downloaded a copy of the Plain Man’s Guide to the Traditional Roman Rite. I’ve attended Mass all my life and I can recite most of the Rite from memory. But I’m still confused with terminology for the various parts, like preface, canon and so on.

This is where that changes.

Here’s an interesting paragraph from that document, on a subject very popular on Catholic forums on the internet:

Since it was the clearly expressed wish of the Council Fathers that the liturgy would continue to be normally celebrated in Latin, how did it come about that the new liturgy which emerged from the post-conciliar reform is almost always celebrated in the vernacular, and that the plainsong and polyphonic music which has been associated with the Latin texts from time immemorial, and which the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy called ‘a treasure of inestimable value’ and decreed should be ‘maintained and cherished with the greatest care’ has virtually disappeared?


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