{"id":6022,"date":"2005-06-29T09:25:22","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T09:25:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/memorialize-this.html"},"modified":"2005-06-29T09:25:22","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T09:25:22","slug":"memorialize-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2005\/06\/memorialize-this.html","title":{"rendered":"Memorialize This"},"content":{"rendered":"

In NCR, Joe Feuerherd discusses the bishops’ meeting, starting with the "Christ Has Died" question<\/a><\/p>\n

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The normally taciturn archbishop of New York, Cardinal Edward Egan, was positively animated. \u201cI really believe the pastoral consideration has to prevail here,\u201d implored the 73-year-old Egan. \u201cWe have to stop this\u2026 [and] not give the impression that everything is up for grabs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Egan\u2019s topic at the June 16-18 meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops was not consequences for priests who abuse minors, though that was the agenda. Nor was he addressing the death penalty, Catholic schools, lay ecclesial ministry or priestly formation — all subjects of discussion and deliberation at the three-day meeting.<\/p>\n

Instead, Egan\u2019s passions were piqued by a proposal that would have scrapped \u201cChrist has died, Christ is risen, Christ will come again\u201d as one of four \u201cmemorial acclamations\u201d included in the Mass\u2019s Liturgy of the Eucharist.<\/p>\n

Egan had allies. It is \u201ctime for common sense\u201d to prevail, said Youngstown, Ohio, Bishop Thomas Tobin, who rose in support of a prayer that \u201cis very well known and very useful for our people.\u201d Mobile Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb, calling it a \u201cvery valid act of faith,\u201d offered a proposal to restore the acclamation.<\/p>\n

Arguing for its elimination was Bishop Donald Trautman of Erie, Pa., chairman of the bishops\u2019 Liturgy Committee. The acclamation, first adopted in 1970, is not found in the Ordo Missae<\/em>, the Order of the Mass, nor is it a translation from Latin, said Trautman. Further, said Trautman, unlike the other acclamations — such as, \u201cDying you destroyed our death, rising you restored our life, we proclaim your death, Lord Jesus\u201d — the \u201cChrist has died\u201d acclamation is \u201cmore an assertion of the Paschal Mystery, rather than a unique expression of the gathered assembly of its own incorporation into the Paschal Mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Chicago Cardinal Francis George, until recently chairman of the bishop\u2019s Liturgy Committee, suggested that action on the recommendation might be premature, that it could wait until the new Latin language Roman Missal is received in the United States. Gently reminded that it was under his leadership that the committee initially made its recommendation to remove the acclamation, George looked surprised.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was wrong,\u201d he deadpanned.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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