[Kolokotronis]

You know, Land, I seldom agree with much of what you post, but this is spot on! Lex orandi, lex credendi.

I was recently at a Mass of the Resurrection for the mother of a childhood friend. It was all very nice and I know a comfort to my friend and his family, but the "Mass" left out so much, including the Creed! I was frankly astonished. A couple of summers ago I was at a family wedding where there were even worse gaps in the Nuptial Mass and the priest seemed to be making up the Canon as he went along. All in all it seemed far off even the NO rubrics. I was sitting with a cousin who is a professor of theology at Fordham and asked him what form of Liturgy it was. He gave me a sour look and said he had absolutely no idea.

[Romulus]

I can check, but if memory serves, the rubrics prescribe that the Creed be omitted in Reqiuem Masses. Obviously this does not set aisde the other anecdote you relate, at which abuses clearly were committed.