The Septuagesima propers confess our corporate sinfulness to God and confess that we are justly afflicted for our sins.
As we face the possibility of a major epidemic, journalists perform their ancient ritual of clustering round 'Christian leaders' to ask them how a loving God can behave so terribly badly.
The abolition of the Septuagesima message was, pastorally, perhaps the greatest apostasy of the 1960s. How badly the world needs this teaching.
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After folded chasubles were abolished (and not by Paul VI), Septuagesima had to go. Without them, it's three more weeks of violet.
Mr Sheridan makes a very interesting and wider point. Nothing in this life, but particularly in the Liturgy, may be seen in isolation. All things are connected.
An FSSP friend made a similar point to me recently about the Novus Ordo calendar and the practice of transferring feats off occurring Sundays being a logical consequence of the abolition of Commemorations. Just as, a reign earlier, the loss of vigils of many feasts was a logical sequence to the abolition of 1st Vespers commems for most feasts. Unintended consequences. Or were they always unintended?
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