tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post4055065511567450274..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Vatican II Reforms: CalendarFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-60045162311291801342010-08-20T19:23:48.037+01:002010-08-20T19:23:48.037+01:00Looking at SC itself, the relevant sections are 10...Looking at SC itself, the relevant sections are 102-111. From a careful summation of these, we can get the "mind of the Council"<br /><br />102: Feasts of the Lord and the cycle of his life (Advent, Christmas, Lent, Easter) are preeminent.<br /><br />103: Close behind are feasts of Our Lady.<br /><br />104: Next in line are the saints.<br /><br />105: What they are referring to here isAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-19895832272903603012010-08-20T14:01:31.476+01:002010-08-20T14:01:31.476+01:00I cannot comment specifically on the Calendar, but...I cannot comment specifically on the Calendar, but on the wider question of the extent to which subsequent reforms were (seen to be) authorized by <i>Sacrosanctum concilium</i> I have found much interesting information in the following book: Stanislaus Campbell, <i>From Breviary to Liturgy of the Hours: The Structural Reform of the Roman Office, 1964-1971</i> (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00104652633000677197noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-17597484013977017302010-08-20T12:22:28.295+01:002010-08-20T12:22:28.295+01:00It seems quite clear that SC had relatively little...It seems quite clear that SC had relatively little to do with what the back room bureacrats were up to.<br /><br />Going back to the 1948 working document for the Pian Commission we get the starting point with regards to abolishing the Pentecost Octave: '<i>Se convenga ridare alla domenica di Pentecoste il suo caraterre originario di termine finale del tempo pasquale, abolendo la sua ottava</Rubricariushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05050302650867319277noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-6265359947826656072010-08-20T11:44:20.026+01:002010-08-20T11:44:20.026+01:00I'm not usually one to join with the rabidly a...I'm not usually one to join with the rabidly anti-1962 campaigners, but what was the presented justification for the significant calendar changes before the Council?<br /><br />I have a particular dislike of the 1969 changes as it has messed up my name-day by several months - but the switch from semi-doubles et al. has struck me as almost as large since starting to use the Farnborough Abbey The Moderate Jacobitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02643594581501536867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-90813043631000975452010-08-20T11:03:48.365+01:002010-08-20T11:03:48.365+01:00I am of the opinion that a restoration of a calend...I am of the opinion that a restoration of a calendar more in keeping with the "hermenutic of continuity" is one of the most urgent things which needs to be done to the liturgy. If done properly it the new-new calendar would be acceptable to traditionalists and we would (thank God) have one calendar for the whole Latin Church again used in both forms. I doubt that this would be as Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12813595031543071453noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-26692548127706979752010-08-20T11:00:35.605+01:002010-08-20T11:00:35.605+01:00Dr Lauren Pristas has a very interesting article i...Dr Lauren Pristas has a very interesting article in the current issue of 'Usus Antiquior' on the suppression of the 'gesimas. The pre-Lenten season seems to have been largely a victim of the casual and hasty procedure of the Consilium, since not even 'multi' were in favour of its complete elimination.Ben Whitworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499311491843942923noreply@blogger.com