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A Miscellany of Missals
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
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It is to Pope St Pius X that the modern liturgical movement owes its greatest debt, and it is from his motu proprio of 1903, issued within three months of his election as pope, that all subsequent initiatives derive their authority. His immediate concern was the reform of sacred music, but he stated unequivocally the principles of any true liturgical advance, namely the need to ‘maintain and promote the dignity of the house of God, in which the solemn mysteries of religion are celebrated, and in which the Christian people gather to receive the grace of the sacraments, to assist at the holy sacrifice of the altar, to adore the most august sacrament of the body of the Lord, and to unite themselves with the prayer of the Church in the public and solemn celebration of the liturgical offices'.
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page 259 note 1 The fascicules were published in one volume in 1911. It was not of course the first vernacular missal, but it was the first to respond to the true pastoral meaning of the pope's words.
page 259 note 2 Thus, in 1661, Alexander VII condemned those who 'have reached the extreme of audacity of translating the Roman missal into the French language, hitherto written centuries in the Latin language, following the approved use of the Church through many centuries … and so degrading the most sacred rites in lowering the majesty that is the conferred on them by the Latin tongue and in exposing to the eyes of common people the dignity of the divine mysteries'. This condemnation is of course to be read in the context of Jansenism.
page 260 note 1 The third edition (1958) incorporates all the most recent modifications.
page 260 note 2 The eleventh edition (1957) contains all the latest revisions and still includes Adrian Fortescue's introduction to the original work.
page 262 note 1 Père Féder has provided in his Livret du Catichiste (Mame) an invaluable guide for those responsible for children's masses, based on the excellent children's missal he has edited under the title Pour Célébrer l'Eucharistie.