At 17:02 12/02/98 GMT, you wrote:
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>| The missal in use in the middle of the 20th century was virtually
>| identical with the missal in use at the beginning of the 11th century.
What one must remember is that throughout the middle ages there were many
different missals, different 'uses' as they were known. The most
widely-used in England was
the Sarum use; there were also Hereford, York and Lincoln uses and many
more; and the same was true on the continent.
Now if you examine the Sarum Missal, it differs very much from the Roman
missal. The order is rather peculiar, to our way of thinking. For example,
the chalice is placed on the altar after the epistle, and water [sic] put in
it; after the gospel, wine was added to the water, and then the bread was
offered, after the wine. The lections, chants and prayers were mostly the
same as in the Roman missal, but there were some differences. And every
'use' had its peculiarities.
The Council of Trent put a stop to all this by imposing the Roman Missal on
all Catholic Christendom (with a few privileged exceptions).
It may well be that the Roman missal in use at the beginning of the 11th
century was virtually identical with that in use middle of the 20th century.
But in the 11th century, it was used only by the diocese of Rome. In the
middle of the 20th century it was used by all Catholics.
The Supple Doctor.
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