Mass of Paul VI
The term novus ordo Missæ (German New Order of the Mass) is used by critics of liturgical reform in the Roman Catholic Church in the 20th century to denote the reformed order of the Second Vatican Council Order of Mass in the Roman Rite. The Novus Ordo Missae name is not used by the Church, but has rather pejorative character. To refer to the ordinary form of the Roman Rite and the current edition of the Roman Missal ( Missale Romanum), the terms Roman rite and Roman Missal may be used. To refer to an earlier edition of the Missal or to distinguish different editions of the Roman Missal, it is customary to indicate when the respective Missal was published as typical edition, about Roman Missal of 1962.
After teaching of the Church follows the Roman Missal of 1969, just as the Roman Missal of 1962, the liturgical norms of the Fathers, that the oldest Roman tradition. Pope Benedict XVI. said in a speech to the employees of the Curia on 22 December 2005, that he will refuse an interpretation of the last Council under the guiding principle of discontinuity, " break ". The Church has preserved and deepened their true nature and identity. She "was and is before and after the Council the same one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church."
Traditionalist groups emphasize the novelty of the Missale Romanum with the Apostolic Constitution by April 3, 1969 Order of the Mass introduced, so as to bring to expression, the liturgical reform of Pope Paul VI. I broke with tradition and introduced an inadmissible innovation. In their view, there are serious differences between the Roman Missal of 1962 and that of 1969. Proceed from a discontinuity from, was sprung from an old, out of them as the only Roman Catholic rite and designated a new rite, the Protestant spirit.
In the letter accompanying the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict XVI made . July 7, 2007 shows that the course of Pope Paul VI. and published by John Paul II releases new Missal is and remains the ordinary form of the liturgy of the Mass. This stand the the council previous version of the Roman Missal as an extraordinary form opposite. It would therefore be inappropriate to speak of two ' rites that it was rather one and the same rite to a two-fold use.