text: It is high time the term 'Novus Ordo', used here by some contributors, was retired from service. It has no legal status and, when used by the Society of St Pius X and others of like mind, always has a pejorative connotation. What is more, an Order of Mass that is now almost fifty years old and the only one most Catholics under sixty can remember is no longer 'new' in the sense in which most people understand the word.