For noen dager siden ble (den spanske) kardinal Antonio Cañizares Llovera, leder av vatikanets Liturgi-departement (Kongregasjonen for Gudstjenesten og Sakramentsordningen) intervjua i den italienske avisa Il Foglio, og sa mange interessante ting om hvordan han (og Vatikanets liturgiske ledelse vil man derfor tro) tenker om liturgiske spørsmål. Jeg tar med et lite utdrag av intervjuet (med mine egne uthevninger):
I think the Motu Proprio has a great value in and of itself, for the Church and for the liturgy. Although some regret this — judging from the reactions that have arrived and which continue to arrive — it is right and necessary to say that the Motu Proprio is not a step back nor a return to the past. It is to recognize and accept, with simplicity, in all its breadth and history, the great treasures of the tradition, which has in the liturgy its most genuine and profound expression. The Church cannot afford to disregard nor give up the treasures and rich legacy of this tradition contained within the Roman Rite. It would be a betrayal and denial of herself. We cannot abandon the historical legacy of the Church’s liturgy, nor desire to establish everything from anew – as some would claim – without amputating the body of the Church.
Some understood the conciliar liturgical reform as a rupture, and not as an organic development of the tradition. In those years after the Council, «change» was an almost magical word; it was necessary to change that which had been, to the point of forgetting it; everything new; it was necessary to introduce newness after a human work and creation. We cannot forget that the post-conciliar liturgical reform coincided with a cultural climate intensely marked and dominated by a conception of man as ‘creator’ which hardly goes well with a liturgy which, above all, is the action of God and His priority, a «right» of God, the worship of God and also the tradition which we receive and we are given once and forever. The liturgy is not of our doing, it is not of our making, but this conception of man as ‘creator’ leads to a secularized vision of everything, where often, God does not have a place; this passion for change and the loss of tradition has not yet been surpassed.
And this, in my opinion, among the other things, has meant that some saw the Motu Proprio with much distrust or that they dislike welcoming it and implementing it, re-visiting the great wealth of the Roman liturgical tradition which we cannot squander, or seeking and accepting the mutual enrichment between the two forms of the one Roman rite, “ordinary” and “extraordinary”. The Motu Proprio, Summorum Pontificum, is of great value which we should all appreciate has not only to do with the liturgy, but with the whole of the Church’s being and what it means to tradition, without which the Church is converted into a changing human institution, and of course, also has an application to the reading and interpretation that is made of Vatican II. When one reads and interprets it in the light of rupture or discontinuity, one does not understand anything of the Council and distorts it. For this reason, as the Pope indicates, only a “hermeneutic of continuity” leads us to a right and correct reading of the Council, and to a knowledge of what it says and teaches as a whole, and particularly in the Constitution of the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, which is inseparable, furthermore, from that same whole. The Motu Proprio, therefore, also has a very significant value for the communion of the Church.
Les gjerne hele intervjuet (på engelsk) HER – på italiensk HER.