As F quoted in his letter to bishops, “the faithful would not assist as strangers and silent spectators in the mystery of faith, but, with a full understanding of the rites and prayers, would participate in the sacred action consciously, piously, and actively” from Vat2.
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I can appreciate how the OF tries to address this over the EF and I can appreciate EF advocate’s explanation about how that is true for them too. That’s not the discussion I’m having.
How can we help improve liturgical catechesis so the benefits of greater modern awareness of the EF is infused into more than those who very actively and intently seek it out. I don’t think a ton of OF people are reading EF Mass explainers back into print in the last decade.
A very minor example “The Latin Mass Explained” (amzn.to/3ihh0Qt) originally published 1920, updated and republished in 2007, mentioned in an aside that we call the Eucharistic bread a “host”, which is from the Latin hostia, which means victim.
The bread becoming Jesus who is the sacrificial victim is Catholicism 101, but just something as small as calling it a host is us calling that particular bread the “victim” was a “huh, that makes a lot of sense.”
I figured it came from biological “host” or something like that.
I consider myself better learned in liturgy than … 95% of people in the pews and I don’t know if I’d ever had made that connection without reading up on the EF.
Not wholly but slightly unrelated, I found this book highlighting how the Mass is formed in the style of Jewish sacrifice also really interesting amzn.to/2UhWKGu
I’m usually not a fan of this type of literature, but I felt it helped me have a greater appreciation of OF.