Post by StellaMaris on Jul 6, 2022 2:21:51 GMT
Pope Francis seemed to kick off the study the next day by issuing “Desiderio Desideravi” (“I have earnestly desired”), an apostolic letter he described as a meditation on the liturgy and one that strongly affirmed the Vatican II reform of the Latin-rite Mass as inspired by the Holy Spirit.
“I do not see how it is possible to say that one recognizes the validity of the (Second Vatican) Council — though it amazes me that a Catholic might presume not to do so — and at the same time not accept the liturgical reform born out of ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium,’ a document that expresses the reality of the liturgy intimately joined to the vision of church so admirably described in ‘Lumen Gentium,'” the dogmatic constitution on the church, Pope Francis wrote in the letter, published June 29.
Meeting in May with the editors of Jesuit magazines and journals in Europe, the pope did not mince words when talking about the resistance of some bishops and priests to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and its vision of the church.
“The council that some pastors remember best is that of Trent. What I’m saying is not nonsense,” he told the editors.
“Restorationism has come to gag the council,” he said, adding that “the number of groups of ‘restorers’ — for example, in the United States there are many – is significant.”
catholicnews.com/pope-francis-and-vatican-ii-its-not-a-battleground-but-the-future/
I completely agree with Pope Francis regarding the bolded text. I believe that had all believing obedient participants in the liturgy reforms of VII been on the same page, the reform would have been much more true to the original inspired vision.
“I do not see how it is possible to say that one recognizes the validity of the (Second Vatican) Council — though it amazes me that a Catholic might presume not to do so — and at the same time not accept the liturgical reform born out of ‘Sacrosanctum Concilium,’ a document that expresses the reality of the liturgy intimately joined to the vision of church so admirably described in ‘Lumen Gentium,'” the dogmatic constitution on the church, Pope Francis wrote in the letter, published June 29.
Meeting in May with the editors of Jesuit magazines and journals in Europe, the pope did not mince words when talking about the resistance of some bishops and priests to the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and its vision of the church.
“The council that some pastors remember best is that of Trent. What I’m saying is not nonsense,” he told the editors.
“Restorationism has come to gag the council,” he said, adding that “the number of groups of ‘restorers’ — for example, in the United States there are many – is significant.”
catholicnews.com/pope-francis-and-vatican-ii-its-not-a-battleground-but-the-future/
I completely agree with Pope Francis regarding the bolded text. I believe that had all believing obedient participants in the liturgy reforms of VII been on the same page, the reform would have been much more true to the original inspired vision.
