Chronicle voices of hope, expectation and disappointment, perhaps on the "Reform" of the Liturgy
Così scrive oggi Tornielli sul suo blog Sacri Palazzi . Gli fa eco Paolo Rodari su Il Foglio sempre di oggi, 9 febbraio:
Sarà pubblicato nelle prossime settimane un documento di Benedetto XVI che riorganizza le competenze della Congregazione del culto divino affidandole il compito di promuovere una liturgia più fedele alle intenzioni originarie del Concilio Vaticano II, con meno spazi per i cambiamenti arbitrari e per il recupero di una dimensione di maggiore sacralità . Il documento, che avrà la forma di un motu proprio, è frutto di una lunga gestazione – lo hanno rivisto dal Pontificio consiglio per l’interpretazione dei testi legislativi e gli uffici della Segreteria di Stato – ed è motivato principalmente dal trasferimento della competenza sulle cause matrimoniali alla Rota Romana. Si tratta delle cause cosiddette del «rato ma non consumato», cioè riguardanti il matrimonio avvenuto in chiesa ma non compiutosi per la mancata unione carnale dei due sposi. Sono circa cinquecento casi all’anno, e interessano soprattutto alcuni Paesi asiatici dove ancora esistono i matrimoni combinati girls with a very young age, but also Western countries for those cases of psychological impotence to make the conjugal act .... To the Journal in an interview published on the eve of last Christmas, Cañizares said: "The liturgical reform was carried out very quickly. There were good intentions and a desire to apply the Vatican. But there was no precipitation ... The liturgical renewal was seen as a research laboratory, the fruit of imagination and creativity, the magic word that time "...
A first reflection hot
I would not anticipate or fear or hope, waiting to see how you configure the innovation and what concrete steps will be able to give change, particularly with respect to liturgical abuses.
However, because of references to Cardinal Cañizares
and his interview , I can not express concern because a liturgical movement that starts from the bottom and in danger of being inspired to hyperactivity, all'arrembanza, innovations as well as some questionable move, quite frankly gives me the chills ... Especially if we consider that an area so serious and sacred as the Liturgy, which brings us the breath of the apostolic faith and enriched by generations of the great saints who have preceduto, non può essere messo in mano né a laici cosiddetti ispirati o carismatici, né a liturghi improvvisati e neppure costruito a tavolino (come accaduto per il NO).
Qualunque modifica, dunque, non può in ogni caso nascere dal basso , ma deve sgorgare dalla fede viva e dalla preghiera e dalla 'sapienza' di chi ha dimestichezza e conoscenza anche storica -in riferimento alla Tradizione- ma soprattutto spirituale delle "cose sacre" e della Liturgia, che davvero è la fonte e il culmine della nostra Fede e, poiché lex orandi è lex credendi , ogni innovazione deve rifuggire sia dalle improvvisazioni, from both trials, and the spirits who have lost touch with tradition and give us that, unfortunately, no shortage of dramatic try again.
Our innovative, even today, they see the Liturgy as well as the tradition-with-historicist criteria, which we think of both evolving according to the times;
but it makes no sense to speak of evolution, because the liturgy and tradition can not evolve in the sense historicist in the sense of being subjected to radical shifts that distort the main thrust of the Liturgy and Tradition increasingly away from the roots, on the pretext of a supposed emphasized, can not return to the roots.
There is, however, and is still alive a tradition that knows no change and evolution (also the evolution of dogma is a principle clearly "modernist") while retaining the essence of the original Apostolic Revelation.
You can do a thousand speeches on the fact that the liturgy could mutate, so as to create a new preface or introduction of a new production based on sanctoral updated. This is to update, renovate, not to manage the evolution .
Rather, there is a risk that the Gregorian Mass, called " never repealed, is disfigured with the pretext of 'mutual enrichment"? Meminisse horret nell'idea di una contaminazione di un tesoro che ci è pervenuto intatto nella struttura essenziale (pensando soprattutto al canone Romano) dal Sacramentario Gelasiano, dal rispetto di Papa Damaso per la Vetus latina , prima ancora che dalla sorgente Gregoriana e che tutt'al più potrebbe richiedere degli aggiornamenti calibrati cum grano salis .
Piuttosto ancora, che fine ha fatto il decreto attuativo del Summorum pontificum , già da tempo pronto sulla scrivania del Papa?
Perché ho parlato di perplessità, pensando all' intervista del Card Cañizares citata da Tornielli : - siamo ancora in attesa delle disposizioni per l'attuazione della Messa Gregoriana, ma il card preannuncia
« Perciò apriremo una nuova sezione della nostra Congregazione dedicata ad “Arte e musica sacra” al servizio della liturgia. Ciò ci porterà a offrire quanto prima criteri e orientamenti per l’arte, il canto e la musica sacri. Come pure pensiamo di offrire prima possibile criteri e orientamenti per la predicazione ».
Il dramma degli abusi liturgici sembra non sfiorarlo affatto e il rimedio di cui parla è solo di tipo "burocratico"...
- E poi:
« Non so se si possa, o se convenga, parlare di “riforma the reform. " What I see is absolutely necessary and urgent, according to what they want the Pope, is create a new, clear and vigorous movement throughout the Church liturgical .
seems to me that this state already "vanished" the reform of the reform "of Benedict XVI. Who has established: again the Curia? And it is wise to speak of a movement that seems to be overshadowed as it is 'from below', for an overall so sacred and serious as the Liturgy?
- These are the keywords of the interview with the cardinal who celebrated Neocatechumenals [ see reflections on that rite ] when he mentions the "new liturgical movement "
" This commitment will be accompanied by the revision and updating of the introductory texts to the various events (prenotanda). We are also aware that give impetus to this movement is not possible without a renewal of the pastoral care of Christian " .
worth noting that the "ministry of Christian initiation" is neocatecumenale of issue that is already entering the diocese (many already established: Campobasso, for example)
- expressed caution about the Cardinal Cañizares:
" Beauty is important, but it is something quite different from an aesthetic empty and sterile formalism, which however sometimes you fall. There is a risk to believe that the beauty and sacredness of the liturgy or depend on the wealth of ancient vestments. ... "
may well be the case, but emphasizing that applicants do not remember the slogan of those who prejudicially refers to the VO in these terms?
Hot At my reflection above comes this reply:
Any change, therefore, can not in any case come from the bottom. Okay, but from the bottom, you can prepare the ground, remove the thorns ... Free themselves from the philosophy of suspicion and mistrust to the bitter end. What all hope is a reform, not a revolution, not a bulldozer that tear down everything and start from where we were. Ratzinger said of himself 'I am a reformist, not revolutionary'. Exactly. What about us?
To answer the question, and we ? Here, I wish I could recognize among the "reformers", not necessarily in the gradual reform is urgent and when are those who never lose contact with the "Logos," the real "raison d'être" of all things, and those old ones New: those 'fertilized' and bearers of true life, not those that emerge from nowhere, like poisonous mushrooms ... So do not speak of "philosophy of suspicion or distrust to the bitter end, "but alert awareness.
What is puzzling is that I have read in a speech at the Mass in Latin, by a voice unmistakably modernist
:
... who wants to be an actor and star, you have to do later. Post the "three things" to play the rest of the field. Fertilization is the word for those who want to be in the game, those who think "opposition", remains a spectator off the field, to make up the "support" (in one sense or another) "
Here, it remains to understand What is a 'fertilization'. And then, as one might say "who wants to be a leader you face forward "... there are those who are already going to the boarding?
It would be like to say again:" playing field "..." who wants to be in the game? "This is a problem which concerns the whole Church and not the players in contention. The Church is a participatory democracy ( in the Church's participation in government is not , but otherwise ...). Today, for the truth, it is increasingly 'anarchy: the hierarchy, which has never ruled out the communion, deleted with the excuse of "just community", just that we no longer know what to communion, having lost on the road with the WHO, that is the one who creates the Communion ... And then a serious business e sacra come la Liturgia non può essere lasciata in mani profane, ma affidata a mani e cuori veramente 'sapienti'.
Il problema è nello strapotere della 'cultura egemone', che ha generato la crisi in cui siamo ed ora sta continuando a cavalcarla!
Non resta che metter tutto nelle mani del Signore e della Vergine Santa! A noi toccherà il compito di pregare. Il "resto" che rimarrà fedele avrà due colonne. l'Eucaristia e l'Immacolata (
il sogno di don Bosco ).
Qualcuno fa osservare inoltre che
per far rivivere il senso del sacro Ratzinger ha riproposto l’orientamento dell’azione liturgica, the cross in 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.
But the knot to untie is true: if
instead of fraternal banquet not clearly intends the sacrifice of Christ, which is the heart of our faith and true worship to God to make primary function of the Church from which all the rest flows, changing only '
and form', but will not change the substance
Some people said, quoting words written off written by one of the card. Ratzinger:
Every generation has the task of better and more consistent with the spirit of the liturgy origins.
Apart from the fact that the apoditticità of such a statement may be questionable, even in reference to the context in which it was given (1) should find out what the Latin Rite Gregorian can be made more consistent with the spirit of origins. I really need to chase an elusive, and always emphasized supposed "original spirit" of issue very Protestant, or rather you should not keep what the tradition has given us innovating, if necessary, grain of salt?
While the tradition is alive and enriched
nine (not
nova), there is no risk of 'liturgical argheologismo insane "mentioned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei
?
What you really need is there bridge the generational gap that has erased the authentic meanings and origins of the true spirit of the Liturgy (not supposed to and emphasized by innovations from those wild and arbitrary) and live more consciously and deeply as we are given, because it is an inexhaustible treasure of grace ...
To return to the news today, it is interesting to take the pulse - and seize the evolution - of the situation, which is a prelude to the official declaration of the Vatican Press, by Andrea Tornielli significant writings on his blog:
13:04 hours : I would ask everyone to be cautious: it will not be as far as I know, a motu proprio dedicated to the correction of liturgical abuses, but rather a technical paper, which in reshaping the powers of the ministry of divine worship should mention that "new liturgical movement" has mentioned several times Cardinal Cañizares .
hours 14:32 : (...) the text of the application of the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum is in the pipeline, to my knowledge. I think that will be published at Easter (Note for the Press: I wrote "I think", and my thought has no value, so I hope that this response - which I express a personal opinion - does not cause a prompt denial) .
14:57 hours: As always, only when you use the word "liturgy" in an article, details of bow with a supersonic speed. In my article I spoke of will not restrictive, but said that the motu proprio may contain a passage in which the Pope entrusted to the Congregation of Divine Worship, the promotion of a new liturgical movement. That this is the will of Benedict XVI did not say that I am nothing, has repeatedly said the Cardinal Prefect of Divine Worship, which has something in liturgical matters. He told the consistory of November, it said in an interview that the readers of this blog know well. Interview long meditated, in which Cañizares explained what was the will of the Pope and described some initiatives of the department . (...)
And here's the press release of Father Lombardi:
"... has long been studying a motu proprio to order the transfer of technical and legal expertise - such as that of dispensation for the marriage 'is ratified and not consummated' - by the Congregation for Divine Worship to the court of the Roman Rota. But there is no basis or reason to see this as an intention to promote the control of type 'restrictive' by the Congregation in the promotion of the liturgical renewal called for by Vatican II "
So says - and I can only share - Francesco Colafemmina [see
]
"As usual, the intent is intimidating: it is in respect of Tornielli than in respect of those who would promote a" reform the reform. "In Tornielli of no one speaks of any "restrictive controls in the promotion of the liturgical renewal." We talk as opposed to "arbitrary changes" of the liturgy and of liturgical abuses. So Father Lombardi, deliberately pro domo plays his (or those who work in the third balcony) and a step part Tornielli of course goes further, allowing a glimpse of the fear of a "Church of punishment" in the liturgy. On the contrary - after 60 years by the liturgical renewal of the Council "(more than Bugnini Lercaro and that the Council!) Father Lombardi has the courage to propose anew the usual menate on" promotion "of this blessed liturgical renewal!
Question: father Lombardi but in the past 60 years where she lived? You have not noticed anything? Do not you think that the Church has too liturgical renewal? It seems that not too many shrines have been destroyed and too many churches defaced in the name of "promotion" of the liturgical renewal of the Council? So much new to be old, outdated, stale, repetitive and frankly intolerable rhetoric? "
remains to ask what will make a department that already does not really count, in which consultants work very progressive and, therefore, with very little convergence toward a worship more "traditional", especially if it is misused, as can be seen dall'involversi regressive situation and certain paean di vittoria lanciati da un movimento in particolare, molto sponsorizzato dagli ambiti più potenti della Curia.
Dove sta andando la nostra Chiesa? Da un lato aumenta la consapevolezza ma, sul piano 'pastorale', i segnali sono sempre più scoraggianti.
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(1) Card. Ratzinger, 28 dicembre del 2001 sul quotidiano francese La Croix: “Alcuni addetti ai lavori vorrebbero far credere che tutte le idee non perfettamente conformi ai loro schemi sono un ritorno nostalgico al passato. Lo dicono solo per partito preso. Bisogna riflettere seriamente sulle cose e non accusare gli altri di essere partigiani di 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. "