Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite Literature Breath of Holiness

Breath of Holiness

On this island is located the magnificent library of the Newman family

It is in this soil-soul nexus that the nub of Belloc’s profundity is to be discovered

which suffers from incoherent doctrinal foundations

Without prejudice to the liturgy

Lumen Christi: Defending the Use of the Pre-1955 Roman Rite Literature Breath of HolinessThe Roman rite, once the serene inheritance of countless saints, was not abruptly overturned in the late 1960s, as a conventional traditionalist narrative suggests; instead, it was subjected to a process of gradual dismantling in the mid twentieth century, prior to the coup de grce delivered by Paul VIs Consilium. Among the most significant turning points was the imposition of a reformed Holy Week in 1955 under Pope Pius XII. This was no gentle