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Sollemnia , an overwhelming weight of evidence goes to
show that the history of the Roman Mass during the
Middle Ages is the history of how it came to be
increasingly misunderstood by the clergy as well as by the
Faithful, and of how it began to disintegrate through the
fault of the medieval liturgists themselves. A prominent
feature of that process as Father Jungmann’s book
shows, was the appearance, in the medieval Expositiones
Missae , of those wrong conceptions we have already
discussed: disproportionate emphasis on the Presence in
the Holy Eucharist and a very sentimental notion of that
Presence, which came to play so disastrous a part in the
worship of the Romantic as well as the Baroque period.
With regard only to our new electronic technology, it
might baffle many to explain why there should be such a