Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite Literature because there is so very

because there is so very much material to cover

and Research Fellow of Blackfriars Hall

Without prejudice to the liturgy

attaches to what we may call the analytical method: it enables us to see the subject dealt with in its general context

rationalism

Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite Literature because there is so veryThe Roman rite, once the serene inheritance of countless saints, was not abruptly overturned in the late 1960s, as a conventional traditionalist narrative suggests; instead, it was subjected to a process of gradual dismantling in the mid twentieth century, prior to the coup de grce delivered by Paul VIs Consilium. Among the most significant turning points was the imposition of a reformed Holy Week in 1955 under Pope Pius XII. This was no gentle