Every once in a while on this blog and elsewhere we have discussions about whether any traditionalist group out there, such as the FSSP or the ICK, have permission to use older versions of the Holy Week rites than those published in the 1962 Missale Romanum. Claims are made by some that they obtained special permission to use the pre-Pius XII reform of the Holy Week rites.
Today I went to visit my old haunts, the offices of the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei.
I explicitly asked whether any permission has ever been given to any group to use any version of the Holy Week rites other than what is published in the 1962 Missale Romanum (now just revised in the Good Friday Prayers). The answer is "NO".
No permission has ever been given by the PCED to any group to use other than what is in the (now slightly revised) 1962 edition.
Any member of any group who says that they have such a permission is either misinformed or dissimulating.
