Pope Paul VI Himself Called the 1969 Missale Romanum the Novus Ordo Missae

I just read a post on Spirit Daily website, written by a good priest, Fr. Charles Nwora Okeke, who sadly accuses Catholics loyal to the Extraordinary Rite of Mass of “despicably” referring to the New Mass as the “Novus Ordo.” This is untrue. Pope Paul VI himself, in an allocution during the creation of new cardinals in May, 1976, referred to what is now called the Ordinary Form of the Mass as the Novus Ordo. Article is here. The relevant part of the pope’s address follows in the original Latin:

Usus novi Ordinis Missae minime quidem sacerdotum vel christifidelium arbitrio permittitur. Instructione autem edita die quarto decimo mensis Iunii anno millesimo nongentesimo septuagesimo primo provisum est, ut Missae celebratio antiquo ritu sineretur, facultate data ab Ordinario, tantummodo sacerdotibus aetate provectis vel infirmis, qui Divinum Sacrificium sine populo offerrent. Novus Ordo promulgatus est, ut in locum veteris substitueretur post maturam deliberationem, atque ad exsequendas normas quae a Concilio Vaticano II impertitae sunt.