En flott messe i Merton College, Oxford
My spirits are soaring after attending yesterday’s solemn traditional Mass at Merton College, Oxford, during the training course for priests organised by the Latin Mass Society. Dette sier Damian Thompson, som blir sitert av Father Z. Han fortsetter slik:
It was glorious to see the sunlight piercing the pillar of incense as priest, deacon and sub-deacon performed the ancient liturgy for which Merton Chapel was built.
I’m going to write about this in more detail elsewhere, but the conference (which ends today) has been a triumph. What delighted me most was the enthusiasm and patent holiness of the priests attending – most of them ordinary parish clergy, not dyed-in-the-wool “traditionalists”.
Everyone was buoyed up by the Archbishop of Birmingham’s sermon on Tuesday, which underlined the fact that the old barrier between older and newer forms of worship has been abolished by Pope Benedict.
Let’s hope that that the social barrier between Catholics attached to the newer and older forms of the Mass also disappears. The Pope understands that liturgical renewal will reinvigorate the whole Church; what Catholics need now are diocesan bishops who are willing implement his reform.
For Z. er det viktigste her kanskje at det stort sett er vanlige menighetsprester som deltar på det «trenings»seminaret. Jeg er enig med ham at en symbiose mellom de to formene av messen er det viktigste. Om den tradisjonelle latinske messen (i sin rene form) blir feriet svært ofte i framtida, er litt mindre viktig enn om pavens motu proprio kan skyve messefeiringa i Den katolske kirke som helhet i riktig retning.
Jeg er altså ikke helt på linje med flere av puristene/tradisjonalistene som skriver på bloggen min. (Men de må gjerne fortsette å skrive, og prøve å overbevise meg og andre!)