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To: Mr. Lucky
Some priests, liturgical "experts", and even diocesan liturgy offices wrongly claim the rubrics of the Missal or “Sacramentary” forbid the sacrament of Penance during Holy Week.

It's a misunderstanding of the Missal. The previous 1970 and 1975 editions of the Missale Romanum (the Novus Ordo) said of Good Friday and Holy Saturday:

"On this and the following day, the Church, from a most ancient tradition, does not at all celebrate the sacraments."

However, since this is in the Missal (the book for MASS), "sacraments" refers only to Holy Mass and not the other sacraments.

5 posted on 04/01/2010 6:12:41 AM PDT by marshmallow ("A country which kills its own children has no future" -Mother Teresa of Calcutta)
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To: marshmallow

Sacramentary. I always hated that word. I heard that we’re FINALLY going back to the proper name, “Roman Missal” when the better translation comes out next year.


9 posted on 04/01/2010 6:23:42 AM PDT by vladimir998 (Part of the Vast Catholic Conspiracy (hat tip to Kells))
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To: marshmallow

Our last Confessions were last night — no more during the remaining Tiduum.


11 posted on 04/01/2010 9:25:14 AM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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