That accompanied the release of the liturgy document:<\/p>\n
Today at a press conference in the Holy See Press Office, Cardinal Francis Arinze and Archbishop Domenico Sorrentino, respectively prefect and secretary of the congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of Sacraments, presented the congregation\u2019s document on the liturgy entitled \u201cRedemptionis Sacramentum.\u201d Also present was Archbishop Angelo Amato, S.D.B., secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which collaborated in preparing this document.<\/p>\n
In opening remarks Cardinal Arinze spoke of both the positive and negative developments on the liturgy that had occurred since Vatican Council II, stating, however, that abuses in liturgy have occurred over the years and \u201chave been a motive of anguish for everyone.\u201d He said \u201cthere has been a temptation to think that paying attention to abuses is a loss of time, that they have always existed and will always exist. \u2026 This can lead us into error. Abuses relative to the Holy Eucharist do not all have the same weight. Some threaten to make the sacrament invalid. Others show a lack of eucharistic faith. Others yet contribute to spreading confusion among the people of God and to taking the sacred out of Eucharistic celebrations. Abuses are not to be taken lightly.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Archbishop Sorrentino underscored that \u201cthe Instruction does none other than reiterate existing norms.\u201d He said that \u201cthe request for the observance (of these norms) does not involve any ban to study more deeply and to propose, as happened in the history of the \u2018liturgical movement\u2019 and still today normally occurs within the sphere of theological, liturgical and pastoral studies. What is absolutely excluded is making liturgy a free zone for experimentation and personal choices, not justified by any good intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, Archbishop Amato referred to the doctrinal meaning of the Instruction, saying that \u201cliturgical norms are the concrete _expression of the ecclesiality of the Eucharist. The oneness and indivisibility of the Eucharistic Body of the Lord implies oneness of His Mystical Body, which is the Church, one and indivisible.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Instruction,\u201d he concluded, \u201cshould arouse in the Church a healthy curiosity and a generous welcome, to contemplate with renewed stupor this great mystery of our faith and to give incentives to appropriate Eucharistic behavior and attitudes.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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