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Traditionalists don’t like concelebration, not all but some. Non traditionalists don’t like concelebration, not all but some. |
Ultra traditionalists think priests should celebrate their own Mass every day, thus if they attend Mass, they dress in choir dress. But apart from that, they participate in the Mass as any lay person would do, but hierarchically seated.
When concelebrating, all the priests doing so seperate themselves from every lay person attending Mass—these priests act as if they are celebrating the Mass differently than the lay person in the pew.
And it is for this reason, that non traditionalists don’t want the priest concelebrating. They want them to act as everyone else does at a Mass, meaning how the laity participates at Mass.
But they don’t want the priest dressed in choir dress and sitting in a hierarchical way, together, to be at Mass. No they want these priests to wear their clerical street dress and to sit in the congregation and not segregated from the laity.
Over the years, I have known priests in this group. They refused to concelebrate and gloried in not wearing choir dress and sitting mingled with the laity in the congregation.
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Kwasniewski quotes Archbishop Paul-Pierre Philippe"
"Finally, the doctrine of Pius XII on the fruits of the Mass must be recalled (cf. AAS 1954:669). In this matter one must consider not only the fruit produced by a devout and fraternal celebration, but first and foremost the nature of the action taking place, that is, the sacramental sacrifice of Christ. Indeed, the objective fruit of the Mass, that is, the fruit of propitiation and impetration for the living and the dead, is the principal fruit. And because this fruit is not the same in a concelebrated Mass and in many Masses celebrated by many priests, if the use of frequent concelebration becomes widespread it is to be feared that right doctrine will be obscured and the faithful will no longer take care that many Masses be celebrated for the living and the dead."
Is the grace of the celebration of the Eucharist to be so quantified, treated like a commodity that one can measure? More grace here, less grace there? Is grace doled out in teacups, kilos, or double magnums?
If the grace of each mass is infinite......
Fr. Michael, this was your chance to point out the inconsistency of so-called Roman Catholic traditionalists! Concelebration was normal in the West until the late first millennium when the conception of the liturgy began to change and there was a rise in guilds and the idea that people could pay for masses for particular intentions. It became even more popular when the advent of Purgatory in the 13th century.
This, as with many other things, is an instance where one cherry-picks what "tradition" means based on personal taste, aesthetics, or whatever.
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