Dokumentet til erkebiskop Coleridge i Canberra og Goulburn, Australia, har som sitt hovedpoeng at det liturgiske arbeidet etter Vatikankonsilet bare så vidt er begynt. Etter konsilet ble det gjort store forandringer og vi må fortsette å justering vår liturgiske praksis slik at messefeiringa kan bære mest mulig frukt.
Bloggene til Father Z, og NLM har begge skrevt om dette, og leserne har kommet med amnge kommentarer. Slik skriver erkebiskopen:
… the Church is moving into a new phase of the ongoing journey of liturgical renewal, the roots of which reach back to the Second Vatican Council and beyond. In earlier times, it seemed that the process of liturgical renewal begun by the Council was complete. But that is not the case. The journey of liturgical renewal, we can now see, is only in its early phases, and the appearance of the General Instruction is one indication of this. Other still more important indications will be the appearance in the not too distant future of the new translation of the Roman Missal and the new translation of the Lectionary. Now is the time, the Spirit is saying to the Church, to take stock of the liturgical renewal of the last forty years, to discern as clearly as possible what has succeeded and what has failed, and to make adjustments in the light of that discernment.
This means that all of us will have to be open to learn, and that is not always easy. Over recent decades, liturgical habits have taken hold, some of which have been beneficial, others detrimental to the celebration of the liturgy. It is never easy to break the hold of bad habits, especially when we do not see them as bad. … …
Our worship generally has become very chatty, to the point where one of the challenges now is to allow silence to play its part in the liturgy. …
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