Tradisjonelle katolske alter og messeklær kan på nytt vises fram
Bloggen TLM skriver i dag om hvor overraska de var over å se bildet over på nettsida til et stort katolsk forlag. Slike bilder er det mange tiår siden man har våga å vise i katolsk sammenheng, sier de, og det er pave Bendeikts frigivelse av den gamle messen som har skapt forandring:
With the passage of one year, we are beginning to see that the most substantial effect of Benedict XVI’s Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum is not exclusively or even directly related to the liberalization of the Tridentine form of the Roman Rite. To be sure, this form is making a comeback in parishes and seminaries and cathedrals, and this is a glorious development. The pope brilliantly named the old form the «extraordinary form» and the new form the «ordinary form» and made it clear that they constitute two forms of the Roman Rite. With this change in language comes a kind of liturgical healing, one that reduces the distance that has artificially separated us from the liturgy of the past.
What Summorum has achieved is to permit us to intellectually and spiritually draw from a broader range of experience as we look to the future. It has meant an end to the illusion that Catholicism was re-founded in 1969 and that we have nothing to learn from our ancestors beyond what not to believe and what not to do.
In retrospect, this sad situation could not have lasted. But it took a man of great courage to finally put an end to the barriers that had sealed off our heritage like a mansion that had been padlocked pending demolition.
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