You certainly have a point, although some of the changes were in the works for a long time. Fortescue, for example, pointed out that the canon was oddly redacted. Others questioned the necessity of all the signs of the cross made over the bread and wine, or found it incongruous that the Introit was no longer the beginning of the mass. Another issue was that many of not most Sundays were superseded by saints’ days, although I think John XXIII changed that when he changed the ranking system of feasts and Sundays (before the bigger changes of 1970).Personally, I can't stand the NO. It's a hotch-potch of half-baked ideas, outdated scholarship and 60s zeitgeist. How a bunch of "experts" thought they could top nearly two thousand years worth of tradition, sanctity and genius in only four years of the 1960s is well beyond my comprehension.
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