Videtur quod
It would seem that, since pastors are to show the variety of the heritage, each pastor may choose and change the rites as the sensibilities of his people ask.
Sed contra
Sacrosanctum Concilium 22
Sacrae Liturgiae moderatio · nemo … proprio marte
The Council says that the regulation of the liturgy rests with the authority of the Church alone: with the Apostolic See and, as the law provides, with the bishop; within set limits, and by power the law gives, with territorial bodies of bishops too; and that therefore no one else, not even a priest, may add, take away or change anything in the liturgy of his own accord.
Codex Iuris Canonici, c. 838 §1
penes Apostolicam Sedem
The Code says that the ordering and direction of the liturgy depend on the Church’s authority alone, which lies with the Apostolic See and, as the law provides, with the diocesan bishop.
Codex Iuris Canonici, c. 846 §1
fideliter serventur libri liturgici
And that when the sacraments are celebrated, the books approved by competent authority must be followed faithfully, nothing in them being added, dropped or altered by anyone of his own accord.
Respondeo
I answer that the variety n. 94 asks for lives inside the order, within the choices the books already give (fol. v, ad m, n). The pastor shows the riches; he does not make them.
Colophon · of the illumination
ex regula, non ex manu
Nothing on these leaves is painted. Each ornament is computed from a word of its leaf’s own text by a rule set down here, and the same word and the same seed give the same image. The rules are borrowed from the household’s tracks: the gates, the telegraph, the wheels, the divisions, the isorhythm, and the hashes by which a quotation can be checked.
| leaf | word | key | cut | plate |
|---|
| fol. i | TRADIDI | G | 2 | I memoria |
| auct. i | CULMEN | D | 4 | II rota |
| fol. ii | SUBSTANTIA | A | 8 | III fifths |
| auct. ii | APTATIO | E | 16 | IV truchet |
| fol. iii | SUPPLICANDI | B | 32 | V two openings |
| auct. iii | ACTUOSA | B | 32 | VI cell |
| fol. iv | VIDEAM | E | 16 | VII tesserae |
| auct. iv | SILENTIUM | A | 8 | VIII silentium |
| fol. v | ORDINEM | D | 4 | IX plain bob |
| auct. v | FIDELITER | G | 2 | |
The gates, in the inner margin: the word in ASCII, eight bits a letter, a filled cell a crossing and an empty one a waiting; it loops. The telegraph, at the head of the frame: the word in Morse, and again down the gutter from the initial. The wheels, at the corners, a wheel in the middle of a wheel: the ring of twelve holds the leaf’s key, its seven notes in gold and the tonic in cinnabar; the ring of four marks the corner’s beat, so the four corners are one bar; one in the middle. The keys go up by fifths and come home, G to B and back to G: my end is my beginning. The divisions, at the foot: the line cut five times and joined five times. The isorhythm, at the sides: a talea of E(k,16), k the letters of the word, carrying the strands in turn, down the left and backwards up the right. The initials stand on their own byte, turned one place a row.
The seeds. Tabula I takes n. 90: its cursor is on row 90 mod 8, counted from nought. Tabula VII takes n. 93 for its golds, which are loaded dice: xorshift from the seed, so they fall the same way every time. The other figures need none; the rule fixes them.
The strands. Lapis the prayer, cinnabar the law, gold the given, grey what has passed, ink the text. No figures of people; nothing pictured.
The parents. Each word keeps the first twelve hex of the sha256 of the words it is quoted from, so it can be checked.
| TRADIDI | 1 Cor 11:23, Vulg. | b0a72dfcd694 |
| CULMEN | SC 10 | 55a2eb8547a8 |
| SUBSTANTIA | Trent XXI, 2 | a607e7c5db6d |
| APTATIO | SC 38 | ac5536561fd7 |
| SUPPLICANDI | Indiculus 8 | 86b5fc29e713 |
| ACTUOSA | SC 14 | a011c8ac1ed9 |
| VIDEAM | Ps 26:4, Vulg. | 86478a8b01cb |
| SILENTIUM | SC 30 | c332c3fbae8a |
| ORDINEM | 1 Cor 14:40, Vulg. | 47ef6492f8bd |
| FIDELITER | c. 846 §1 | 939ada764e0f |
| Tab. I | 1 Cor 11:24, Vulg. | 26b1410c1c73 |
| Tab. II | Ez 1:16, Vulg. | a3c421dbaa38 |
| Tab. VI | MD 48 | 3ca1404c8034 |
| Tab. VI | Jude 3, Vulg. | e221a5a2f7a7 |
Computed by clingo, by a checker of theological claims · Douay-Rheims, Waterworth, Pusey: public domain · the Considerations, the Council, Pius XII and the Code reported, not reproduced: read them at vatican.va
Explicit
Everything that binds in these five paragraphs is borrowed: from Scripture and the Fathers, from Trent, from the Council, from Pius XII and the Code. The gloss is faithful to its text. Its joints are hidden by its register, not missing.
Deo gratias. Amen.
The reading of the joints is the commentator's · the checker shows what is ill-formed, not that the well-formed is true