Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 28 April

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Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 21 April

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Where It All Went Wrong ... Chapter 203

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You'd think that deciding that it was about time that you read Mediator Dei, instead of just reading about it, you'd end up edified and with a more complete understanding of what the sacred Liturgy is all about.

Instead, you mess up your Triduum by reading that Pius XII wrote this:

But if one desires to differentiate and describe the relationship between faith and the sacred liturgy in absolute and general terms, it is perfectly correct to say, "Lex credendi legem statuat supplicandi" - let the rule of belief determine the rule of prayer. 

To anybody who believes (believed?) that Lex orandi lex credendi was some sort of eternal law for the Church, this comment in Mediator Dei will cut you to the quick.  This is why and how any subsequent change could be justified; why any new belief could take precedence over any belief grounded in the Liturgy. Whatever careful point the Pope was making (and I bet I could guess who helped him draft this encyclical), the door was left open.

Here it is in its context

Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 14 April

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Pre-1910 Calendar for Week Beginning 7 April

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I should just add, though the 1867 Ordo doesn't, that Friday is a day of Abstinence. I wonder whether the compositor was married to somebody called Dolores?