Really excellent stuff from Fr Leon Pereira, O.P., on the #synod and the #ListeningChurch: "It is the grievous failure to be authentically pastoral and genuinely loving."
H/T @sitsio, on whose blog the video of the full homily can be found (well worth it!):
Not at all: 1. It's not about Latin or the vernacular, because; 2. The Novus Ordo is *not* the TLM in (e.g.) English - the Orders of Mass are not the same, there are very different readings, very different prayers, etc. (see newliturgicalmovement.org/2021/10/all-el… for more detail on this)
In fact, this Sunday provides a good example of the Novus Ordo not being 'just the TLM in English' - not only has the postcommunion been edited from its source (
) but the collect isn't in the 1962 MR either (pic: CO 6824; extant in only 3 mss, 9th-11th c.)
Compare this Sunday's collect in the TLM (6th aft Pent), extant in 47 manuscripts from the 8th century onwards, including the Gelasianum Vetus.
This oration is in the post-Vatican II Missal (22nd Sun per annum), but separated from the other prayers it was with for centuries.
(1/9) This Sunday's postcommunion in the Novus Ordo (16th per annum) provides yet another example of the corruption and deformation of the Roman Rite's euchology purposefully carried out by the post-Vatican II liturgical reformers, and in no way envisaged by the Council Fathers.
(2/9) Latin: «Pópulo tuo, quǽsumus, Dómine, adésto propítius, et, quem mystériis cæléstibus imbuísti, fac ad novitátem vitæ de vetustáte transíre.»
(Nb. This prayer is identical to that of the 5th Sunday of Easter in the post-Vatican II Missal)
(3/9) English (ICEL 2011): "Graciously be present to your people, we pray, O Lord, and lead those you have imbued with heavenly mysteries to pass from former ways to newness of life."
Yes, Catholic writers & influencers like <ahem> St Paul:
"For we do not wrestle against flesh & blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." (Eph. 6:12)
"For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds." (2 Cor. 10:3-4)
How about St John? "The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil." (1 Jn. 3:8b)
Or St James? "Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you." (Jas. 4:7)
(1/5) Paragraph 47 of «Desiderio desideravi» (pic 1) is remarkable, given the symbols & gestures removed in the liturgical reforms, e.g.:
- the order for incensing the altar (pic 2)
- bowing at the Confiteor
- the bows during & sign of the Cross at the end of the Gloria
(cont.)
(2/5)
- the genuflection and bows during the Creed and sign of the Cross at the end
- both orders for incensing the offerings (see pics)
- all but one of the signs of the Cross during the Canon
- the (1st) genuflections directly after the words of consecration
(cont.)
(3/5)
- the priest keeping his index finger & thumb together after the consecration
- the signs of the Cross during the Pax
- the bow & striking of the breast at the Agnus Dei
- the striking of the breast at the «Domine, non sum dignus» (both priest & people)
(cont.)
Simply put, @Pontifex, because the Con𝘀ilium was not the Con𝗰ilium. Ugh.
You don't know the reasons why I & so many others love the traditional Roman Rite; worse, you can't even care to be interested. To you, we're all just psychologically damaged "rigid restorationists"... 😞
"Let us abandon our polemics to listen together to what the Spirit is saying to the Church. Let us safeguard our communion. Let us continue to be astonished at the beauty of the Liturgy."
From the Pope who has reignited the liturgy wars with gusto, this is, frankly, insulting.
How did the great Romano Guardini, cited four times in this fairly short Apostolic Letter (see pic for an example), describe the post-conciliar reforms?
(1/5) In this week's Tablet (5 Feb 2022, p. 30), boomer clergy: "terrified" of not just their much younger brothers, but also of the dogmatic teaching of the Church!
Holy Orders "confers an indelible spiritual character" (CCC 1582) that "remains forever" (CCC 1121)...
(2/5) ... "priests, by the anointing of the Holy Spirit, are signed with a special character" (Vatican II, Presb. ord., n. 2; cf. Vatican II, Lum. gent., n. 10; CCC 1563); Holy Orders "imparts an indelible 'character'" (Pius XII, Med. Dei, n. 42)...
(3/5) ... there is a "specific ontological bond which unites the priesthood to Christ the high priest and good shepherd" (John Paul II, Past. dabo vob., n. 11), "an ontological and psychological bond, a sacramental and moral bond" (ibid., n. 72)...