The public session concluded, before the final Te Deum, with a liturgy of penance imploring God’s forgiveness for the sins committed during the Council, and because of it. I left slowly and with difficulty, barely able to stand. A great many bishops congratulated me, thanked me. To a good extent, it was my work, they said.
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Paul Philibert (and Yves Congar) on the Center, the Periphery, and Missal Translation
“The contrast between the broad vision of the council and the Vatican’s recent micromanagement of liturgical texts is stark.” – Fr. Paul Philibert
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXIV
Mass, DURING WHICH a choir sang chants in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. Why the blazes can’t we just have a Mass that is a Mass! The Constitution on the Liturgy is already a dead letter for many!
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXIII
Dinner at a restaurant in the Piazza Navona, in the open air. We saw normal people again, to whom our byzantine intrigues would have absolutely NOTHING to say!
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXII
From different sides I hear echoes of disappointment among the laity AND AMONG PRIESTS. The reform of the liturgy is insufficient (‘Is that all?’). The story of the Motu proprio has caused disturbance and disquiet. Some are driven to despondency and to lose interest.
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXI
[The proposed motu proprio] lays down that texts for use in the vernacular must first be submitted to the Holy See, and approved by it. This is the very negation of the worth of the Council.
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXX
The Pope is looking for a formula for proclaiming the decree on the liturgy that ASSOCIATES THE BISHOPS with the Pope. Something other than ‘Paul, with the approval of the sacred Council . . . !
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXVIII
Ukrainian Mass. I dearly love the Easterners, but it is a bit much to keep giving us Masses which last for more than an hour when there is so much work to be done. … It is absurd. But in Rome, no-one knows what work is.
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXVII
I realized once again to what an extent the Catholic Church is Latin, to what extent she deceives herself, in good faith, by believing herself to be ‘Catholic’. She is nothing of the sort. Romanism, Italianism, Latinism, scholasticism, the analytical spirit, have swallowed up everything and have almost established themselves as a dogma. What a job!!
Read moreYves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXVI
Joachim Amman (Germany) attacked the existence of diplomatic representation of the Holy See, which likens the Church to temporal states. He questioned their episcopal character. He also questioned the greater confidence placed in their reports than in the bishops.
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