The good Archbishop wrote this prior to the bombshell news about Pope Francis Traditionis Custodes and the election of Pope Leo. One can only imagine what he thinks about that! Press title for full First Things article.
Here’s a Moneybyte:
Pope Francis’s purpose in issuing Traditionis Custodes was to unite the Church in one form of worship. It has to be admitted that having two forms of the Mass for the universal Church is anomalous in the history of the Church. In reality, though, there are not simply two “forms” of the Mass, but a whole variety of forms due to priests taking liberties to do things their own way in violation of the liturgical norms—a clear vulnerability of the ordering of the Mass currently in force, and one that risks bringing great harm to souls.
Now we have extremely divergent forms of the Roman Rite. A video of a German priest rapping at the Mass recently went viral. On the other hand, for example, there’s the Mass of the Americas, which I celebrated as a Solemn High Pontifical Latin Mass at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., in November 2019.
2 comments:
Archbishop Cordileone should be made a Cardinal and then head up the Dicastery for Divine Worship.
The entire Novus Ordo either needs to be suppressed or brought in line with the 1965 Missal: One form of introductory rites with the Confiteor and the Roman Canon, that is, if the Church is truly interested in promoting unity. The current Novus Ordo is a hydra-headed creature which promotes disunity of worship
Agree on Abp Cordileone.
We Byzantine Rusyns/Ruthenians use three liturgies, St. John Chrysostom, St. Basil the Great and Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts.
Within the Russian patriarchate, I believe the Divine Liturgy of St. James might still be used, but more rarely.
Same liturgy, slightly different forms, no problems.
Same can be achieved in the Roman Church.
I really think the current NO missal needs to be suppressed such that a clean break/fresh start is possible, like the '65 missal as you, TJM, suggested. There's entirely too much baggage there to successfully recapture lost patrimony. As there is likely little appetite to do this, I do not see an end to the liturgy wars anytime soon.
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