The Layman's Missal: Sundays, Principal Feasts, and Liturgy of the Sacraments

There is currently a liturgical ferment and renewal in the Roman Catholic Church, encouraged and directed by His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI. At the time of the Second Vatican Council a new order of Mass was approved (the New Rite, or Novus Ordo) which was regularly to be said in English only, with a Latin version for occasional use. Now two important developments have taken place. Before long both a new Roman Missal and a new Lectionary will be published and The Holy Father has also encouraged and authorized the widespread usage of the Old Rite— also known as The Tridentine Rite or the Latin Mass.