Understanding the Truth Behind the 1955 Holy Week Reform – The Catholic Mass #46

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🗓️ 12 September 2025

⏱️ 115 minutes

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Today we’ll do a careful study of the 1955 reform. Fr. Palko explains what changed, why it changed, and whether these revisions were justified—or dangerous. From Palm Sunday to the Easter Vigil, we explore the reasons behind the time shifts, structure changes, and liturgical simplifications. Were these revisions paving the way for the Novus Ordo, or were they well-intentioned efforts to help the faithful participate more fully? We also examine the SSPX’s actual practice today, and whether using the 1956 rites is a compromise, a prudential choice, or a litmus test for tradition

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0:00.0	Today we'll do a careful study of the 1955 Holy Week reform.
0:09.0	Father Palco explains what changed, why it changed, and whether these revisions were justified or dangerous.
0:15.0	From Palm Sunday to the Easter Visual, we'll explore the regions behind the time shifts, structure changes, and liturgical simplifications.
0:21.8	Were these revisions paving the way for the Novosorto, or were they well-intentioned efforts
0:26.1	to help the faithful participate more fully? We also examine the SSPX's actual practice today,
0:31.2	and whether using the 1956 rights is a compromise, a prudential choice, or a litmus test for tradition. On SSPXpodcast.com slash mass, you'll be able to find all of these episodes, videos, and resources. This is free to listen to and to watch, but please do consider a one-time or a small monthly recurring donation. There's a link in the show notes. Also, please do consider leaving a rating and a review on this podcast to help others find these episodes and to discover the beauty and the truth of traditional Catholic Catholic Catholic Mass.
1:01.2	Series, understanding the truth behind the 1955 Holy Week reforms.
1:06.3	Father Palco, round two.
1:08.1	You ready?
1:08.9	I'm ready.
1:09.9	Okay.
1:13.1	Welcome back to the mass series.
1:18.2	We are doing the second part of this episode that we started last week, which is why the SSPX uses the certain year missile in the 1962 that we do, that the SSPX does.
1:26.9	And also, more bluntly to this week's question, why does the
1:32.3	SSPX use the holy week that the SSPX uses? So just a quick recap in case someone hasn't
1:38.3	seen last week's episode already, Father, what did we discover and what did we look at last
1:42.4	week, kind of from a 30,000-foot view? Sure.
1:44.5	I think it's important.
1:45.9	I would recommend, in fact, watching that one before you get into this one because a lot of the same principles will apply.
1:52.1	And we flesh them out a lot more there than we really can here.
1:55.8	Okay.
1:56.6	But we did discuss the 1962 missile and why the society uses it.
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