Pondering the Penitential Rite of Divine Worship during the Eucharistic Revival
Unlike the Novus Ordo Missae which has the Penitential Rite at the beginning of Mass, Divine Worship - the Mass of the Ordinariate, also known as the Traditional English Mass - has the Penitential Rite placed at the transept of the Liturgy. That is, it is located after the Prayers of the People and before the beginning of the Liturgy of the Eucharist, previously known as the Liturgy of the Faithful, when the non-baptized - i.e., those being schooled in the Way and not yet admitted to Holy Communion - would be excused from the Mass. The Ordinariate Liturgy is a member of the family of Latin Rite liturgies, a relative newcomer to that family which includes, for example, the Novus Ordo Missae, the Usus Antiquior (1962 Missal), the Dominican Rite, the Mozarabic Rite, the Rite of Braga, the Zaire Use, and the Ambrosian Rite. The Penitential Rite of Divine Worship invites worshippers of God to abandon the lazy slang of dower and dull religionists to allow God to sing in and through hearts pu...