quarta-feira, 10 de agosto de 2011

Talk in Poland – 9 th April 2011. ‘ Is the Traditional Movement the Remedy for the Crisis in the Church?

  
Rev. Fathers, Ladies and Gentlemen,First of all may I thank Arkadiusz Robaczewski for inviting me to speak at this conferenceand giving me the opportunity to make my first visit to Poland.Since its formal erection in 1967 the International Federation Una Voce has been theleading lay movement within the Church striving for the equal right and dignity of thetraditional Roman rite and working to preserve and foster the liturgical books in use in1962
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. Our primary concern has always been for the liturgy and so my talk will touchupon the changes to the sacred liturgy, the response of the International Una Vocemovement to these changes, and our hopes for the future.
The Reasons for the Crisis?
Before we can look for a remedy to overcome the crisis, we need to identify the reasons forthe crisis. In my opinion the root cause began with the appointment of the Consilium,under the secretaryship of Father Annibale Bugnini, to interpret the minds of the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council. This single act took away from the Congregation for Rites,the legitimate body for the regulation of the sacred liturgy, the responsibility forimplementing the decrees of the Council Fathers. Despite the fact that the Consilium wasmerely an advisory body, it is now clear that the leading members had their own agendaand were given the freedom to impose their own ideas of the faith on to an unsuspectingChurch at the time. There is no need to list all the changes that were imposed in the middleto late 1960s because they are now well known but it does seem remarkable to me that thebishops of the world collectively voted during the Council for a moderate revision of theliturgical books but then returned home and imposed such spectacular changes that thepublic worship, in the new form of Mass, was unrecognisable to that which it replaced.Even as early as 1964 some members.  Read in...
http://pt.scribd.com/doc/55410443/%E2%80%98Is-the-Traditional-Movement-the-Remedy-for-the-Crisis-in-the-Church