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Press
Release:
CDF
Decrees on new Prefaces and Saints for the Extraordinary Form
From the President and
Officers of the FIUV
26th March
2020
Yesterday the Congregation
for the Doctrine of the Faith (CDF), now exercising the functions of the
Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei, has issued two decrees, one on Prefaces to
be added to the 1962 Missal (Quo Magis), and the
other on the possibility of saints, canonised since 1962 to have Masses celebrated in their honour (Cum Sanctissima). (English
summary here.)
The Federation was
consulted on both issues, and we would like to thank the CDF for taking the
views of our members into account in developing these decrees.
The Federation welcomes
in particular the possibility of making a liturgical commemoration of saints
canonised since 1962, without excessive disruption to the Sanctoral Calendar as
it has come down to us. We wish, however, to issue some notes of caution.
