FOR THOSE WHO LOVE THE LITURGY, EITHER FORM OR BOTH FORMS: IDOLATRY IS THE DANGER WHEN THE LITURGY BECOMES MORE IMPORTANT THAT WHAT THE “END” OF THE LITURGY IS MEANT, THE WORSHIP OF GOD NOT THE WORSHIP OF THE LITURGY

No! I did not find these in our Cathedral’s sacristy and the photo is not of me, in case you were wondering!

 There is an editorial piece in Catholic World Report on the concern that the Holy Father might curtail in some way the liberal and progressive use of the Extraordinary Form of the Mass as envisioned by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI.

You can press the title below for the full editorial but the money byte I print below the title captures its essence. The editorial writer must read my blog as I have been on a rant about idolatry coming from high places in the Church when God and worship of God are supplanted by Vatican II, synodality, ecclesiology, the form of the Mass and I could go on:

Opinion: On liturgical wars and rumors of wars

It is to be hoped that the anxieties and fears that have been aroused about a restriction of the older rites can be calmed and that no authority issues peremptory precepts which may simply undermine their own authority.

June 13, 2021 Dom Alcuin Reid The Dispatch

We are in a peculiar age when these are seen as concerns. But for some, who are ideologically committed to “the changes,” the rites and ecclesiastical reforms put in place following the most recent ecumenical Council of the Church as means to bring about a new Springtime in the life of the Church have become ends in themselves. For such persons, these means must be adhered to even if it has long since become clear that their ends – the profound renewal they were meant to usher in some decades ago – have simply not been achieved. They can become idols, occluding anything but their own worship.