Monday, May 21, 2007
One last MP Prediction
I indicated prior to Holy Week that I did not think the motu proprio would be coming until after Easter. So now I'll make my actual prediction, which is probably a bit anticlimactic. I think it will be released on or just shortly after Pentecost. It only makes sense to me that this document loosening the restrictions on the Tridentine Mass would be released in honor of the birthday of the Church.
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Normally I would say that your guess is as good as mine but this time your guess is the same as mine. At yesterday's Regina Coeli the Holy Father asked us to pray for a "renewed Pentecost" for the Church. This renewal could certainly be the rebirth of the old Mass.
I have heard it said that in October will occur the 40th anniversary of the first public mass according to the missal of Paul VI; a good day for the MP to end 40 years in the wilderness and begin in earnest the reform called for by the fathers of the Second Vatican Council.
What cuts against the Pentecost prediction is that it is being said that the Pope's China letter is going to be released on or about Pentecost. I would think that the Vatican would not want to do two major things at the same time.
All right. Who's this Anon Y. Mous that keeps posting comments? And insightful ones at that? I'd be very happy to have a name to go with... um... a post.
As rumors go, the date for the letter to Chinese Catholics is the first one I've seen (but, then, I haven't been following that particular issue). We've heard that Alice von Hildebrand said she'd been told that the MP would be released in May, so that leaves a short period of time in which both could be released without overshadowing the other.
I don't know. I haven't been watching the Vatican long enough to know the subtleties.
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