846 1. Elsewhere it is written that the people of God have a right to the celebration of Mass according to the rubrics. From a different angle, I find it difficult to justify ever saying that it's alright to break a rubric because I think that it's a bad rubric. There are a lot of principles that instantly go out the window the very first time you do that, including "Say the Black -- Do the Red." What I would (strongly) support is a petition to the CDW for an emendation to GIRM 274. I will have a Mass said for whatever person (e.g., Bp. XYZ) or group (e.g., XYZCCB) manages to get it changed. Postscript: I'm a very strongly pro-EF person. I loathe the NO rubric about not genuflecting to the tabernacle during Mass. When I'm walking through a church outside of Mass I genuflect at every remote occasion of having a conceivably valid reason to genuflect. But when the Church tells me to bow, I bow. After all, that's why I learned to genuflect. Basil... Support the US Military Archdiocese BOOKS I AM READING. Join in? "This blog is rather like a fusion of the Baroque 'salon' with its well-tuned harpsichord around which polite society gathered for entertainment and edification and, on the other hand, a Wild West "saloon" with its out-of-tune piano and swinging doors, where everyone has a gun and something to say. Nevertheless, we try to point our discussions back to what it is to