{"id":106174,"date":"2021-02-06T12:24:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/?p=106174"},"modified":"2021-02-06T12:25:19","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T20:25:19","slug":"changes-to-the-roman-missal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thomryng.com\/amateurmonk\/changes-to-the-roman-missal\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes to the Roman Missal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

W<\/span>hen Pope Saint Pius V promulgated the revised Missale Romanum<\/em> in the Apostolic Constitution Quo Primum<\/em><\/a> in 1570, he famously wrote that it applied “henceforth, now, and forever, throughout all the provinces of the Christian world”. Yet, just a year later the Pope himself issued the first changes to the Missal, inserting the feast of\u00a0Our Lady of Victory<\/a>, to celebrate the victory of\u00a0Lepanto<\/a>\u00a0on October 7, 1571.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It is a great truth of Church history that the Missal changes all the time, developing slowly and organically over centuries, and sometimes getting a jump-start in many changes at once: from the change from Greek to Latin in the 2nd century, to the liturgical reform of Pope Gregory the Great<\/a> at the turn of the 7th century, to the changes prompted by fusion with the Gallican Rite<\/a> in the Middle Ages, to the reforms of 1570, 1604, 1634, 1884, 1920, 1955, and 1962, to the major reform of 1970, to the versions and revisions of 1971<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, 1975<\/span>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, 2002<\/span>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, and 2008<\/span>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span>, to the present day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week Pope Francis promulgated some additional changes, adding memorials of a number of saints to the calendar. In addition, the USCCB announced a small change in the translation of the collect prayers of the Mass. It’s worth enumerating the changes to the Third Edition of the English-language version of the Roman Missal<\/em> since its publication in 2011.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Addition of Saint Joseph<\/a> to Eucharistic Prayers II, III, and IV (2013)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Calendar Changes (2014 – 2021)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The best way to summarize these is by listing them, with links to the to the Mass and Office texts in English, where they exist. Pope Francis has added more memorials and feasts than any Pope since the promulgation of the current Missal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n