Does the statement of Quo Primum, that “none of it be changed under penalty of our indignation” mean that Masses celebrated with the name of St. Joseph in the Canon are not Tridentine Masses?
The interdiction of adding or changing refers to the act of any prelate of any rank, by his private preference or authority. It does not forbid a subsequent pope, as supreme legislator, from making changes. In fact, many popes made minor changes, either to the text or to the rubrics, amongst which Clement VIII and Urban VIII (whose encyclicals explaining their changes are in the front of the Tridentine Missal), Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XII and John XXIII, whose Apostolic Letter Rubricarum instructum is also at the front of the “Missale Romanum ex decreto sacrosancti concilii tridentini restitutum summorum pontificum cura recognitum,” as it is officially titled; i.e., the Roman Missal restored by decree of the most holy Council of Trent and reviewed by the care of the Sovereign Pontiffs. The Mass remains the Tridentine Mass for as long as these changes are not substantial, that is for as long as it remains essentially the Mass restored by decree of the Council of Trent. This was the c
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