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Monsignor Batut: "Has Pope Francis come to forbid you to go to mass in Latin?"

2021-07-23T17:58:12.657Z


TRIBUNE - The bishop of Blois replies to Michel Onfray who, in Le Figaro, had expressed his attachment to the “liturgical heritage” of the Latin mass. The tradition must be alive rather than fixed, explains the prelate.


Michel Onfray's estrangement from the Catholic faith of his childhood cannot excuse the error he made by confusing the so-called Paul VI Mass, resulting from Vatican Council II, with the abandonment of Latin and Gregorian chant. , which would at the same time be the prerogative of the so-called Mass of Saint Pius V resulting from the Council of Trent.

This confusion led him to write

(Editor's note: our editions of July 19)

that Pope Francis has just

“repealed the decision taken by Benedict XVI to allow mass in Latin, known as the Tridentine Mass, for those who wish”

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Being more or less a contemporary of Michel Onfray, I witnessed like him the transitional period (between 1965 and 1969) during which the Mass of Saint Pius V continued to be celebrated, but in French: the texts n ' had not changed, but Latin was already abandoned.

From December 1969, we celebrated what the liturgical jargon calls the ordo of Paul VI, and it should be noted that the reference edition of this new missal

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Source: lefigaro

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