“[T]he [Roman] authorities have set on foot nothing less than a liturgical revolution. No longer can it be said that ‘Rome never changes’. Partly the changes have consisted in the introduction of totally new practices in order to meet the alleged special needs of the present day; such are, for example, the progressively extended permission for the celebration of Mass in the evening and the drastic modification of the rules governing the eucharistic fast. Partly they have consisted in the restoration of features of the rite that had been abandoned, or in the removal of medieval and modern accretions which were considered to have obscured the true meaning of the liturgy; such are the complete revision of the rite of Holy Week … Furthermore, it is well known that a much more radical reform is in preparation, which, if the statements made at the International Congress of Pastoral Liturgy held at Assisi in Septemberr 1956 can be taken as pointers, is likely among other things to include a vastly extended use of the vernacular. Some of these changes may be of doubtful advantage …”
Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment: Totius Sacrae Liturgiae Instaurator
Fr Hunwicke’s Mutual Enrichment: Totius Sacrae Liturgiae Instaurator
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