February 9, 2011
Faith comes from how they pray, what the Pope says he now wants to straighten out a little 'twisted logic of the post Second
Faith comes from how they pray, what the Pope says he now wants to straighten out a little 'twisted logic of the post Second
Since the end of the Second Vatican Council in today's liturgy of the Catholic Church suffered abuse, which often have turned, at times also gutted in its deepest core. Benedict XVI has repeatedly denounced these abuses, such as misinterpretations of the texts of Vatican II had set out - all the "Sacrosanctum Concilium", the first conciliar document - explaining that if the faith of the church as it turns out to pray ("lex orandi, lex credit ") should return to a liturgy faithful to the rules, as the new Vatican II has stated, without making it dropped by certain peculiarities of the past. As he said recently, the English Cardinal Antonio Cañizares, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, in an interview with the Journal, "What is needed is a new liturgical movement, which longer be shown in the sacredness and the silence in the Mass, and more attention to beauty in song, music and sacred art. " The Pope
this new liturgical movement has sponsored since the beginning of his pontificate with an example: its liturgies have lost much of the drama that became an imprint of the papal celebrations in the days of John Paul II, and have gained a lot in silence, a sense of orientation, attention to detail. And now, after nearly six years of his papacy, all his efforts were channeled into an upcoming release of the Motu Proprio . The book, long overdue, it serves to pass the responsibilities of marriage, "Rato but not consumed" by the Congregation for Divine Worship to the Sacred Rota. And, therefore, to streamline the Divine Worship of all those commitments that have nothing to do directly with the liturgy. The stated aim is that from now on Divine Worship - As part of the Motu Proprio will specify - working to ensure that this new liturgical movement and the energy you need are the right measures to move from wishful thinking to a papal reality.
The idea of \u200b\u200bchurch planting in a sort of "reform the reform" the liturgy - in the post Second Reform that took place in part betrayed the will of the Council Fathers - is an obsession of the pope he, not surprisingly, has wished that the publication of his "Complete Works" start from the eleventh volume, dedicated to the liturgy, because, he writes, is "in connection with the liturgy that decides the fate of faith and church. Christ is present in the church through the sacraments. God is the subject of the liturgy, not us. The liturgy is not an action man, but is the action of God. "
Too often it was not the case. Too often, the liturgy has been hurt by arbitrary deformations. In many celebrations we are no longer in the middle God, but the man and his hero, his creative action, the role given to the assembly. The renewal reconciliation was intended as a break and not as an organic development of the tradition. For this reason, Ratzinger reiterated the guidance of the liturgy, the cross at the center of the altar, communion kneeling, Gregorian chant, the space for silence, some care of sacred art. For this reason, comes up with a Motu proprio, an important provision that should be to remedy a gap now become atavistic.
Already a cardinal Joseph Ratzinger said in clear words on. On 28 December 2001, intervened in the French daily La Croix: "Some experts would have you believe that all ideas are not perfectly in line with their schemas are a nostalgic return to the past. They say only bias. We must seriously reflect on things and not accuse others of being partisans of St. Pius V. Every generation has the task of better and more consistent with the spirit of the origins of the liturgy. And I think actually now no reason to work hard in this sense, reform the reform. Without a revolution (I am a reformist, not revolutionary), but there must be a change. A priori impossible to declare any improvement seems to me absurd dogmatism. "
Source: The Gazette
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