Today, the Feast of Christ the King, has been an odd one for for the past two years. I'm sure many traditional Catholics, or at least bi-ritual Catholics, feel the same way. I already celebrated this festival earlier on the year, you see.
It seems particuarly odd when we consider the present position of the old and new rites. We are told that they are not rites at all, but merely different uses, or forms, of the same Roman rite. In the middle ages, of course, when we had so much greater liturgical variety it would not have been uncommon for one feast to be on a different day to another in different rites or uses. Each use would have had a different priority for feasts. Those were, however, days when there was very little social mobility, if any mobility at all. People would live and die in the same village, the home of their ancestors and their descendents to come.
Now, however, when we all have, or should have, access to the different expressions of the same Roman Rite, surely some kind of harmonisation of the calendars is in order? Would the re-translation of the new missal not be a perfect time?
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