Missale Romanum is the incipit of an apostolic constitution issued by Pope Paul VI on 3 April 1969. It promulgated the new revised version of the Roman Missal.
Overview
Missale Romanum ("On the Roman Missal") is the incipit of an apostolic constitution issued by Pope Paul VI on 3 April 1969. It promulgated the new revised version of the Roman Missal.
The new version, commonly known as Mass of Paul VI, has since largely displaced the Tridentine Mass, though indults have been granted to allow the celebration of the preconciliar rites under certain conditions.
History
The Council of Trent had formally asked the Holy See to put an end to the disparities of the various rites of the Catholic Church. This request was implemented by Pope Pius V in his apostolic constitution Quo primum, promulgating an edition of the Roman missal that was to be in obligatory use throughout the Latin Church except where there was another liturgical rite that could be proven to have been in use for at least two centuries.
The Second Council of the Vatican's decree Sacrosanctum Concilium asked that significant revisions be made to the Missal; in the wake of it, some changes were officially introduced into the Mass of the Roman Rite in 1965 and 1967, but no new edition of the Roman Missal had been produced to incorporate them.
