Mer om kardinal Ratzingers brev fra 2003
Father Z. har også lest brevet jeg nevnte for et par dager siden og skriver her noen interessante kommentarer til selve brevet (og så har leserne begynt en debatt). Bl.a. skriver han slik oppsummerende (bl.a. om å ha tålmodighet):
Joseph Ratzinger had the idea that side by side celebrations of the older form of Mass with the newer would eventually jump-start the organic growth of liturgy that was so artificially interrupted by the cut-paste job of experts at desks when the Novus Ordo was stitched together. Never had liturgy been impose in that manner, and harm has resulted.
Neverthless, we must be practical. At the Council there was perceived a need for some reform. Though we didn’t get the reform the Council Fathers though they were mandating, and the Consilium under Bugnini and Lercaro (with Piero Marini already a disciple in the cause) went way beyond its mandate in order to push a new ecclesiology on the whole Church, there are some elements that in retrospect we can reflect on as a Church as being positive. We can also learn from the problems we created.
So, what is envisioned here is a kind of tertium quid that slowly but surely there would emerge over time from the «dialogue» between the older form and the newer form. Ratzinger is saying that the older, traditional form must be the basis, the starting point, for any eventual single Roman Rite, not the Novus Ordo. …