I often like to 'compare and contrast' what the Second Vatican Council actually said and what eventually happened after the 'experts' got done telling us what the Council REALLY meant. Here is one of my favourites, in two short quotes.
In Sacrosanctum Concilium, Paragraph 23, the Council, speaking of the Liturgy, said, 'Finally, there must be no innovations unless the good of the Church genuinely and certainly requires them; and care must be taken that any new forms adopted should in some way grow organically from forms already existing'.
After Bugnini and Co were finished with the Novus Ordo Missae, Fr Joseph Gelineau, SJ, an 'expert' who was described by Abp Bugnini as one of the "great masters of the international liturgical world", said 'Let those who like myself have known and sung a Latin-Gregorian High Mass remember it if they can. Let them compare it with the Mass that we now have. Not only the words, the melodies, and some of the gestures are different. To tell the truth it is a different liturgy of the Mass. This needs to be said without ambiguity: the Roman Rite as we knew it no longer exists [Le rite romain tel que nous l'avons connu n'existe plus]. It has been destroyed [il est détruit]'.
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