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Posted: Tue May 22nd, 2007 03:22 am |
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APARECIDA, Brazil, MAY 21, 2007 (Zenit.org).- The president of the Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" has confirmed that Benedict XVI hopes to increase the availability of the Latin Mass.
Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos said this Wednesday when he addressed the 5th General Conference of the Episcopate of Latin America and the Caribbean, meeting in Brazil through the end of May.
The Pontifical Commission "Ecclesia Dei" was formed by Pope John Paul II in 1988 following the schismatic gesture of the illegal episcopal ordinations carried out by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.
The cardinal first explained that the commission was established when "a notable group of priests, religious and faithful who had shown their discontent with the conciliar liturgical reform and had congregated around the leadership of the French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, separated themselves from him because they were not in agreement with the schismatic act of the ordination of bishops without due pontifical mandate."
"Today," Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos continued, "the commission is not limited to the service of those faithful who wished to stay in full communion on that occasion, nor to the efforts aiming to end the painful schismatic situation and achieve the return to full communion of these brothers from the Society of St. Pius X."
He said: "It is the Holy Father's wish that this dicastery additionally offers its services to satisfy the just aspirations of those who, due to a particular sensitivity -- without being linked to either of the two groups I've mentioned -- desire to keep alive the former Latin liturgy in the celebration of the Eucharist and the other sacraments."
Ending schism
However, the cardinal confirmed that "without a doubt, the most important task, which concerns the entire Church, is looking to put an end to the schismatic act and reconstruct, without ambiguousness, full communion."
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos recalled that before being elected Pope, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger served on the commission.
"[The Holy Father] wishes that the commission become an organization of the Holy See with the particular and distinct aim of conserving and maintaining the value of the traditional Latin liturgy," Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos said. "But it should be clearly affirmed that this does not mean a going back, a return to the times before the reform of 1970.
"Instead, it means a generous offer of the Vicar of Christ, who, as an expression of his pastoral will, wants to put the treasures of the Latin liturgy that nourished the spiritual life of so many generation of faithful Catholics for so many centuries at the disposal of the entire Church.
"The recovery of this richness is united to the not-less-precious current liturgy of the Church."
Cardinal Castrillón Hoyos explained that the Pope intends to extend to the entire Church the possibility of celebrating Mass and the sacraments according to the liturgical books promulgated by Pope John XXIII in 1962.
He thus seemed to confirm rumors from earlier in the year that Benedict XVI intended to make the Latin Mass more available.
Coexistence
The 77-year-old cardinal mentioned the "good experiences had by communities of religious and apostolic life" that celebrate "this liturgy in peace and serenity." And he recalled that in Brazil, the Diocese of Campos, formerly followers of Lefebvre "and now, after five years, showing good fruits" after their return to full communion.
"The project of the Holy Father has already been partially tested in de Campos where the peaceful cohabitation of the two forms of the only Roman rite in the Church is a beautiful reality," he said. "We have the hopes that this model will produce good fruits, also in other places in the Church where faithful Catholics with distinct liturgical sensitivities live together."
Cardinal Hoyos said that "Ecclesia Dei" oversees some 300 priests and 200 seminarians as well as hundreds of thousands of faithful. He said the Society of St. Pius X has four bishops, ordained by Archbishop Lefebvre, 500 priests and about 600,000 faithful.
He asked "that we pray to the Lord so that the Holy Father's project can soon become a reality for the unity of the Church."
The above article is reposted with permission from Zenit.
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Posted: Fri May 25th, 2007 01:09 pm |
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The traditionalist wing of the Church in the US is going to need a lot of prayers for Benedict as he has to valiantly pull, drag, keelhaul -- whatever it takes to get many of the Kumbaya Katholic generation clerics, some of whom became bishops, to go along with bringing Latin back.
And, I haven't even gotten around to dealing with those parish-level liturgical committees. Try and imagine a tractor/pull contest in a local county fair and that might be as good a guess we can expect the Vatican's efforts to get more Latin Masses said here.
Yep, a lot of prayers, a-uh.
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Posted: Sat May 26th, 2007 08:22 pm |
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I am hopeful that we will see more Latin masses offered in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We have some very traditional parishes around here that can do it. I will go if someone does. I have attended the Tridentine mass in the early morning on Saturdays and then attended the English mass in the late afternoon. I like them both, but a "novus ordo" Latin mass would be a great improvement on the current modern English one, in my opinion.
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Posted: Mon Jul 2nd, 2007 04:47 am |
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heardclarke wrote: I am hopeful that we will see more Latin masses offered in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We have some very traditional parishes around here that can do it. I will go if someone does. I have attended the Tridentine mass in the early morning on Saturdays and then attended the English mass in the late afternoon. I like them both, but a "novus ordo" Latin mass would be a great improvement on the current modern English one, in my opinion.
Lisa,
I live in the Ft. Worth diocese....and I was curious, if there is any indication on ya'lls new bishop's opinion on the Latin Mass.
Peace be with you...Pam
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Posted: Tue Jul 3rd, 2007 12:34 am |
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PassthePeace1 wrote: I live in the Ft. Worth diocese....and I was curious, if there is any indication on ya'lls new bishop's opinion on the Latin Mass.
Hi, Pam. I don't live in the DFW area, but I wanted to take a moment to welcome you to the Coming Home Network. We're glad to have you here with us, and we look forward to hearing your faith story whenever you're ready to share it with us. Meanwhile, we're happy to have you join us on our faith journey. Please let us know if we can help you in any way.
Welcome home!
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Posted: Tue Jul 3rd, 2007 10:31 am |
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CajunRick wrote: PassthePeace1 wrote: I live in the Ft. Worth diocese....and I was curious, if there is any indication on ya'lls new bishop's opinion on the Latin Mass.
Hi, Pam. I don't live in the DFW area, but I wanted to take a moment to welcome you to the Coming Home Network. We're glad to have you here with us, and we look forward to hearing your faith story whenever you're ready to share it with us. Meanwhile, we're happy to have you join us on our faith journey. Please let us know if we can help you in any way.
Welcome home!
Thanks for the welcome, Rick!
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Posted: Tue Jul 3rd, 2007 06:26 pm |
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Welcome Pam, It's nice to have you here with us.
Thanks for sharing the article with us Rick! I keep wondering when we are going to have Latin Mass offered at our Parish.
We received parish prayer books last year. Father made sure that they included the Liturgical Prayers in Latin, so we could all practice the latin version.
Then not long afterward I found on our parish web-site that father has a link, where he has used his own voice doing the prayers in Latin, so we can learn to pronounce them better.
http://www.st-thomascamas.org/moretreasures/latin.htm
I have been thinking about having father do a tape for me & others that we can take home and listen to, so we can memorize them better.
Betty
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Posted: Fri Jul 6th, 2007 11:04 pm |
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The Vatican Information Service has officially announced that the Holy Father's letter will be released tomorrow, July 7 2007, and it will be accompanied by an explanatory letter. Here is the official Vatican announcement:
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VATICAN CITY, JUL 6, 2007 (VIS) - Tomorrow, Saturday July 7, the Vatican Information service will transmit a special service for the publication of the Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" of His Holiness Benedict XVI, "Summorum Pontificum," concerning the use of the pre-1970 Roman liturgy. The document will be accompanied by an explanatory Letter from the Holy Father.
The Vatican Information Service does not normally produce a dispatch on Saturday, so the purpose of this announcement is to alert the media that the dispatch will be forthcoming. This is the first "official" notice by the Vatican that the letter will be released on a certain date. It's also the first indication of the name of the document, "Summorum Pontificum".
Depending on the length of the letter, I intend to post it either in its entirety or as an attachment to a message on the forum, so stay tuned.
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Posted: Sat Jul 7th, 2007 04:35 am |
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Thanks Rick!
Your always keeping us so well informed
I'll be here in the morning looking for it.
Betty
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