Prayers At The Foot Of The Altar

[Aloysius]

i was lookin through an old missal of mine, but it's a Vatican II missal (so it's not THAT old) and it starts the Mass with some really cool prayers. How come we don't do that anymore? i mean, this is a Vatican II Missal, i think 1961 or something like that. It resembles very closely the current Mass, just has prayers at the foot of the Altar and a few other cool things. "In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. i will go unto the Altar of God, to God who gives joy to my youth" and that... i'd love that to be the first thing i hear from the priest at Mass!

also, when they decided to do vernacular, how come they didn't just translate the Tridentine into the vernacular?

nothing against our current novus ordo, just wondring.

Pax Amorque Christi

[Pio Nono]

JMJ
2/28 - Eighth Tuesday

Aloysius,

Psalm 42/3 and 85/6:7-8 were removed from the Mass because the scholarship at the time of the liturgical reform indicated that they were a late development local to southern Gaul. Since it wasn't "early" (whatever that means), it was junked. Recent study has shown, though, that this was a universal practice of the western Church since at least the ninth century. The Tridentine Ritual wasn't translated because the purpose of the reform was to renew the liturgy from the inside; Bugnini and his cohorts did not think they were starting something new, but restoring something old. Hope this helps.

Yours,
Pio Nono