Why did the Vatican restricted it so much?

During the Vatican Council II (1962-1965), the need for a revision of the liturgy of Catholic ceremonies appeared, in particular mass. It is a question of giving a greater place to the participation of the faithful, while allowing the celebration in each national language. In 1969, Paul VI confirmed this revision of the rites by signing the Constitution Missale Romanum. It is this “Paul VI mass” that we celebrate today.

Despite this adoption, a “significant number of faithful” remain attached with “love and affection for previous liturgical forms”, recognizes in 2007 Pope Benoît XVI in the Motu Proprio Summorum pontificum. It then softens the conditions for celebrating the mass according to the Rite prior to Vatican II, known as “Tridentine” (or “Saint Pius V”) because its form was established at the end of the Council of Trent (1545-1563). Seven years after the council, Pope Pius V in generalized the use with a missalm that remained in force until 1962. This mass “in Latin” – a convenient but improper – sole – has permeated the Catholic community for four centuries (Read the lexicon below).

Questioning of Vatican II

In 2021, Pope Francis decided to return to these authorizations by another motu owner, Traditionis custodes. Instead of contributing to the ecclesial harmony, the possibility of celebrating according to the Tridentine rite, he notes, “was used to increase distances, harden differences, build oppositions that hurt the church and hamper the progression, by exposing it to the risk of divisions”. In order to “defend the unity of the body of Christ”, he therefore strongly restricted the use of the old missal. If Pope Francis has reached this conclusion, it is because, for the Catholic Church, the way of praying is an expression of faith itself. This is what the sentence expresses “Lex Orandi, Lex Credndi”, That is to say: “The law of prayer is the law of faith, the Church believes as it begs” (Catechism of the Catholic Church §1124).

Unfortunately, regretted François, there was an “instrumentalization” of the Tridentin rite “characterized by an increasing refusal not only of the liturgical reform, but of the Vatican Council II, with the unfounded and unbearable affirmation that he would have betrayed the tradition and the” real church “”. In other words, systematically refuse to use the post -CONCILIRY liturgy comes to question the adhesion even to Vatican Council II.