Regarded as the “Dean of Filipino liturgists,” Fr. Chupungco is considered eminently qualified to write the Primer.
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Pray Tell is pleased to present the paper given this week by Fr. Anscar Chunpungco, OSB, at the National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy in the Philippines: Veneration of Saints.
Two surprise twists added a bit of mystery and honor to the second day of the National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy (NMDDL). It was to be a day celebrating the twenty-five year history of the conference and more than forty years of implementing Sacrosanctum Concilium in the Philippines.
Anscar Chupungco, OSB, gave the opening address in the first session of the National Meeting of Diocesan Directors of Liturgy (NMDDL).
Truth-Telling
Feb 3
This is a response to Anscar Chupungco’s talk, “Liturgical Studies and Liturgical Renewal.” The greatest growth—astounding growth, in fact—in the post-Vatican II church has been in Asia and Africa. Would this have happened had these regions not enjoyed the benefit a liturgy that was indeed clear, understandable, and expressed in the language and idioms of their own cultures?
I want to comment at some length on Fr. Anscar’s claim that some proposals (and proponents?) of the so-called “reform of the reform” movement demonstrate an “inability to fuse together…sound tradition and legitimate progress” for on-going liturgical renewal in the Roman Catholic Church.
World-renowned expert in liturgical inculturation, Fr. Anscar Chupungco OSB, challenged recent announcements on liturgical reform decrying their “absence of a historical and cultural approach to the liturgy, or, in a word, the inability to fuse together the two basic concepts of Vatican II’s liturgical renewal, namely sound tradition and legitimate progress.”