{"id":6878,"date":"2006-06-30T09:11:16","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T09:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/a-critique.html"},"modified":"2006-06-30T09:11:16","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T09:11:16","slug":"a-critique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/06\/a-critique.html","title":{"rendered":"A critique"},"content":{"rendered":"

The new Secretary for the Congregation of Divine Worship:<\/a><\/p>\n

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The newly appointed Secretary of the Congregation for Divine Worship said this week that some liturgical reforms that followed the Second Vatican Council have not been true to the council’s decrees. Archbishop Albert Patabendige Don accused a human-centred "spirit of total liberty … without roots or depth", of too often usurping the divine mystery – which should be at the heart of the liturgy – in the post-conciliar liturgical reforms. <\/p>\n

"The Vatican II decree Sacrosanctum Concilium … was about making the liturgy the entry point to the faith, and liturgical changes were expected to emerge organically, by taking account of tradition, and not precipitately," said Archbishop Patabendige Don. But there had been drifts away from this spirit. "The direction of liturgical prayer in the post-conciliar reform has not always reflected the texts of Vatican II, and in this sense, we can speak of a necessary correction, of a reform of the reform. We must regain the liturgy in the spirit of the Council," he added. <\/p>\n

Today, the problems concerning the liturgy turned upon language (vernacular or Latin), and the position of the priest, (facing the congregation or God), said the Archbishop in an interview with La Croix<\/em>, a French Catholic daily newspaper, on 25 June. "Nowhere, in the conciliar decree, is it laid down that the priest must henceforth face the congregation, nor that the use of Latin is forbidden. If the use of modern languages is accepted, notably for the Liturgy of the Word, the decree clearly specifies that the use of Latin will be maintained in the Latin rite. On these subjects, we await the Pope’s instructions," he added. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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