The Mass We Understand—and the Faith We Don’t

The Mass We Understand—and the Faith We Don’t

For nearly 60 years now, multiple generations of Catholics have lived entirely within the experience of the post-Vatican II liturgy—the Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969. One of the pastoral goals of the reform was intelligibility and fluency of the Mass texts. Full disclosure: I love both forms of the Mass, and I am a music director at a parish that executes both with… Source