Missal

So that octave is suppressed.

And then you get to the 1962 Missal, as he points out, it's first class, but it doesn't have an octave.

That's a bit of a bummer.

So it doesn't have the octave.

Why? I mean, look, they didn't just say, okay, the vernacular is needed because people can't follow the traditional Latin mass, okay? So if we want people to participate, have active participation in the liturgy, we have to give them the Mass in English, or in French, or in Italian, or in Spanish, or whatever, right? Give it Mass in their native language.

So if that was really the issue, why didn't they simply take the English translations of the Latin Mass that were in every Sunday Missal, Why didn't they say, okay, we're going to follow the English translation now.

Same Mass, same traditional Mass.

It's going to be simply the standard approved English translation.

Drawing on this venerable tradition and its sacredness, St. Pius V guaranteed, in a particularly solemn manner, by the Apostolic Constitution, quo primum, the free and perpetual use of the traditional form of the Mass to all priests of the Roman Rite.

He expressly established that no priest could ever be compelled to celebrate the Holy Mass according to a form other than that of the Missal he had promulgated.

and that its apostolic constitution, Quo Primum, could not be revoked in the future.

Thus, St. Pius V, in a certain sense, canonized the traditional rite of the Mass.

the salus populi romani and reginae pacis to obtain for us the grace that the olive branch held in the hand of the child jesus in the arms of the regina pacis may fall upon us and bring us a long-for liturgical peace a peace that would restore the full use without discrimination of the traditional form of the roman rite May those in positions of responsibility in the Church foster the coming of such liturgical peace, allowing themselves to be touched by the voice of the Virginia Pontius and of the Church's smallest children, who have been marginalized in the liturgical sphere.

May the mindful also of these words of John Paul II.

In the Roman Missal, known as that of St. Pius V, there are very beautiful prayers with which the priest expresses the most profound sense of humility and reverence before the Holy Mysteries.

They reveal the very substance of any liturgy.

But nonetheless, those are your headline news.

The gospel today comes to us in the 1962 Missal from Matthew Chapter 22, verses 15 through 21.

Then the Pharisees, going, consulted among themselves how to ensnare him in his speech.

And they sent him their disciples along with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art a true speaker and teachest the way of God in truth.