In Koch’s view, the readmission of the celebration of Mass in the preconciliar form is “only the first step,” but “the time is not yet ripe” for further steps. Rome can take further actions only when there is readiness among Catholics to consider new forms of liturgy “in service of the Church.”
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“One of the very few areas where I agree with the Lefebvrists is their assertion that Pope Benedict’s ‘hermeneutic of continuity’ fails to make logical sense.” — Jonathan Day
The Truth?
Dec 1
Michele Somerville is the author of a December 1 article in the Huffington Post, “The Truth Behind the Godawful New (Old) Roman Catholic Missal”.
I recently scheduled Mass in Latin for students at the college where I teach…One of the most rigorously orthodox of our students said sweetly, succinctly, and accurately the morning after: “It was nice to be in touch with our tradition and to experience the Mass as did our grandparents, but there was a layer of meaning entirely absent.”
Did the old liturgy need fixing??
What is already happening in the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham is the subject of the first part of the lecture. The second part will be of interest to those, especially those in the Association for Latin Liturgy, and indeed many in the Latin Mass Society who are anxious to see the preservation of a cultural patrimony much wider and deeper than that of the Anglican tradition.
…I was responding rather sharply to a piece by Fr Allen Morris, until recently secretary of the English and Welsh bishops’ liturgy office. On 17 September, he had written a letter defending against a critic what is said in a UK edition of the new texts, namely that the bishops had been overseeing their gestation for about 20 years.
Pope Benedict said he made the change in responsibilities so that the Congregation for Divine Worship could “dedicate itself principally to giving a new impulse to the promotion of the sacred liturgy in the church, according to the renewal willed by the Second Vatican Council.”
Bishop Olmsted of Phoenix Diocese is withdrawing permission for Communion under both forms at nearly all Masses.