Quo primum

After its Latin opening words Quo primum a Papal Bull or Apostolic Constitution of Pope Pius V., 14 July 1570 quoted in this edited by him on behalf of the Council of Trent Roman Missal as a binding for all the churches of the Roman Rite Missal in force sat. It corresponds essentially to the Bull Quod a Nobis from July 9, 1568 regarding the Roman Breviary. Instead of the new books but still the liturgical books of those orders of worship were to be used and printed that were older than 200 years at that time, namely certain diocesan and religious liturgies.

Background

The aim of the liturgical reform of the 16th century was the preservation and unification of criticized by the Reformation celebration of Mass in the Catholic Church. For this purpose, a " revised and cleaned " version of the Missal was produced. This task was given to " selected scholars" who compared the oldest manuscripts available at the time of the Vatican Library and other sources and renowned liturgist writings beizogen pre-Reformation period. Main basis of scholarly work was the Missal used in the Roman curia curiae, 1474-1570, numerous issues were printed by the. Although Quo primum tolerated older traditions and should not displace, the Missal of Saint Pius V continued in the following years by more and more, because the concern, an impeccable management of the sacramental rite to guarantee, in the Counter-Reformation had high urgency.

Because of its antireformatorisch intentioned apodictic formulations:

The bull is partly used by traditionalist currents as proof that the Catholic Church in the Second Vatican Council with the liturgical reform and the introduction of a renewed Missal had fallen away from the true faith.

However, Pope Paul VI. with his Apostolic Constitution Missale Romanum of April 3, 1969 explicitly everything that stood in opposition to the entry into force of the liturgical reform of Vatican 2 (ie just above phrase ) should be repealed with the same based on a council has authority as Pius V. " Roman Missal " said Paul VI. :

"Our arrangements and provisions to be valid and legally now and in the future, they were under revocation of any conflicting constitutions and ordinances of Our predecessor, as well as all other instructions of any kind. "

Certainly completely prohibited (see the Motu proprio of Pope Benedict XVI. Summorum Pontificum ) was thus not generally set out of use " old Mass ".