Visitation at Vatican's liturgy office before Cardinal Sarah's successor announced – Catholic World Report catholicworldreport.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from catholicworldreport.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Altar of the Transfiguration in St. Peter s Basilica at the Vatican in February 2013 (Wikimedia Commons/Westerdam) A new instruction from the Vatican s Secretariat of State has banned the practice of individual Masses inside St. Peter s Basilica and places strict limits on the use of the Latin rite. A March 12 letter outlining the new measures has sent shockwaves through traditionalist Catholic communities who have described the suppression of individual Masses as forcing uniformity, while delighting reformists who see it as a long overdue prioritization of the communal nature of the Mass. Some 3,000 bishops, priests and theologians filled St. Peter s Basilica during the years of the Second Vatican Council (1962-65) and among its groundbreaking reforms was to adapt the liturgy more suitably to the needs of our own times.
A change in wording to the concluding doxology of orations in the Roman Missal, from "one God, for ever and ever" to "God, for ever and ever," took effect on Ash Wednesday, Feb. 17.
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Revision of Roman Missal for Use in Canada: CCCB Issues Decree of Implementation - Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops cccb.ca - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cccb.ca Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.