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Mass of Paul VI

Pope Francis celebrates the Mass of Paul VI during an Apostolic journey to Mexico.

The Mass of Paul VI, also known as the Ordinary Form or Novus Ordo,[1] is the most commonly used liturgy in the Catholic Church. It was promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1969 and its liturgical books were published in 1970; those books were then revised in 1975, they were revised again by Pope John Paul II in 2000, and a third revision was published in 2002.

It largely displaced the Tridentine Mass, the latest edition of which had been published in 1962 under the title Missale Romanum ex decreto SS. Concilii Tridentini restitutum ('The Roman Missal restored by decree of the Most Holy Council of Trent'). The editions of the Mass of Paul VI Roman Missal (1970, 1975, 2002) have as title Missale Romanum ex decreto Sacrosancti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II instauratum ('The Roman Missal renewed by decree of the Most Holy Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican'), followed in the case of the 2002 edition by auctoritate Pauli PP. VI promulgatum Ioannis Pauli PP. II cura recognitum[2] ('promulgated by the authority of Pope Paul VI and revised at the direction of Pope John Paul II').[3]

  1. ^ "Novus Ordo (Ordinary Form of the Mass)". Diocese of Peterborough. 15 November 2019. Retrieved 12 April 2022.
  2. ^ "Sumario". www.clerus.org (in Latin). Retrieved 12 August 2019.
  3. ^ Catholic Church (2011). The Roman Missal [Third Typical Edition, Chapel Edition]. LiturgyTrainingPublications. ISBN 978-1-56854-990-3.

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