A BANAL ON THE SPOT PRODUCT?
Cardinal Ratzinger on the Novus Ordo: “After the Council… in place of the liturgy as the fruit of organic development came fabricated liturgy. We abandoned the organic, living process of growth and development over centuries, and replaced it, as in a manufacturing process, with a fabrication, a banal on-the-spot product”.
Extraordinary VERSUS Ordinary:
"Apologists for the Novus Ordo tend to defend it on one or other, and occasionally both, of two grounds. Firstly, they claim that it represents a return to the Eucharistic rite of the first few centuries of the Christian Church. Thus we read in an editorial in The Tablet, 31 May 2003, that, “Most Catholics are agreed that the new rite of the Mass introduced by Paul VI after the Second Vatican Council represents a welcome return to the roots of the liturgy.” (The editor does not explain exactly how most Catholics, who have little, if any, acquaintance with liturgical history, have managed to arrive at this conclusion). The second argument is that the Novus Ordo is not really a different rite from the preceding one, but merely a reformed version of the same rite, arrived at by eliminating undesirable elements which have crept into it in the course of time. Thus Mgr Anthony Boylan, a well-known apologist for the Novus Ordo, in a letter published in the same issue of The Tablet, calls the new Mass, “the reformed version of the Roman rite”, and the so-called Tridentine rite, “the previous version of that liturgy”.
The first thing that strikes one about these arguments is that they are not entirely consistent with each other. The Novus Ordo might represent the restoration of the rite known to the earliest Christians or it might be just a reformed version of the immediately preceding Roman rite, but it is hard to see how it could be both simultaneously. However that may be, is there in fact any substance in either of these arguments? In my view there is not, for reasons which I hope to explain in this article." Novus Ordo - Fabricated or Organic?
A Comparison Between The Texts Of The Traditional (Tridentine) Missal And The Novus Ordo Missal
The >Differences Between The Ordinary of the Tridentine Mass and the Novus Ordo Missae
