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Peter Kwasniewski announced (in 2022) the launch of his latest book: “The Once And Future Roman Rite. Returning To The Traditional Latin Liturgy After Seventy Years Of Exile”.
The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile (TAN Books, 2022).
Peter Kwasniewski writes:
I am pleased to announce to readers the release of my latest book, The Once and Future Roman Rite: Returning to the Traditional Latin Liturgy after Seventy Years of Exile (TAN Books, 2022).
Although it was initially conceived as a response to the fiftieth anniversary of the Novus Ordo (1969-2019), it developed over time into a full-on response to the numerous errors and lies of progressive liturgists as we find them regurgitated in Traditionis Custodes and its accompanying letter.
The fruit of decades of research, experience, reflection, and debate, Once and Future Roman Rite argues that the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy is sacred Tradition, which originates from Christ and is unfolded theologically and liturgically by The Holy Spirit throughout the life of The Church, in each age and across the ages.
The prominent identifying traits of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—including, of course, the classical Roman Rite—are markedly and designedly absent from or optional in the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite” at all.
Paul VI’s new liturgical books, drafted in unseemly haste by an audacious committee of arrogant men, who placed themselves above and outside of the stream of tradition as its jury, judge, and executioner, visited upon the long-suffering Roman Catholic Faithful a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors.
But this much is always true and will always be true: man is not master over divine liturgy; rather, all of us, from the lowest-ranking Layman to the Pope, himself, are called to be stewards of God’s best and choicest gifts. This law, in turn, imposes genuine moral and ecclesial duties upon us and bestows corresponding rights.
The only possible Catholic response to this crisis of rupture is a full return to the Roman rite in its robust perennial richness as codified after The Council of Trent (i.e., the pre-1955 form of the rite: hence “Seventy Years of Exile”).
No special permission is or could ever be needed to embrace this heritage and to hand it down to future generations. Fidelity to the traditional Latin Liturgy is, at its root, fidelity to The Roman Church as such and to Christ, Himself, Who has inspired the growth and perfection of our religious rites for two thousand years.
In addition to its preface, twelve chapters, and epilogue, the book contains a foreword by Martin Mosebach, nine reproduced artworks, several diagrams, an appendix of (highly revealing) texts by Paul VI on the liturgical reform, a topical bibliography, and a detailed index.
Dr. Peter Kwasniewski: ‘The prominent identifying traits of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western—including, of course, the classical Roman Rite—are markedly and designedly absent from or optional in the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite” at all.‘ (“The Once and Future Roman Rite”)
ReplyDeleteDr Kwasniewski appears to have made a very serious scholarly contribution here to answering the question that there is no real historical or elemental support from any ecclesiastical tradition, East or West, to the Mass of P. Paul VI.
Thank you, Zephyrinus, for drawing attention to this book.
So, likely as Zephyrinus knows, Someday we may suppose it (the “ NovusOrdo” rite) will be set aside as the principal liturgical rite of the Roman Catholic Church as a temporary aberration. Likely when that happens some day, when it is eventually set aside, it will dwindle and die off of its own nature. Meanwhile, there’s much for the rest of us to do to preserve Catholic tradition (like Zephyrinus does every day, thank you, with his highly informative blog), and to pray for its eventual restoration. -Comment by Dante P
A most apposite and welcome Comment from Dante P, which encapsulates perfectly everything that Dr. Kwasniewski's outstanding book comments upon.
DeleteDante P's sound stance, on Christian Faithful being encouraged to continually Pray for the defence of The Church, is a most worthy one. One which Zephyrinus wholeheartedly recommends.
Let us not forget, it was Christ, Himself, Who said: “The gates of Hell will not prevail against My Church”.