The final ideological temptation, that the Pope has been speaking about;
he refers to it as the Pelagian solution. The Pelagians, this group at
the time of St. Augustine, believed that sanctity was the result of
human effort without any assistance from God or the Spirit. This is the
temptation of conservative Catholicism to a form of restorationism. "We gotta get back to what things were; the Council was wrong, this shouldn't have happened. We're gonna take you
back to the real thing'"!
They seek a purely disciplinary solution to all of the Church's
problems; through the restoration of outdated forms and manners, the usage of English [Latin?] language,
incomprehensible to most of us who speak English. On a cultural level,
it is no longer meaningful. We can see why Francis rejected the grandiose Papal apparel. One of the
things I felt very badly about (and I loved Pope Benedict), is the way
that they dressed him up in these past years, and put vestments and
things on him. And looking at some of the pictures; saying: this is not
Pope Benedict. This is not this great theologian. And how many of us -
hopefully not a lot of us here - loved Pope Benedict for the wrong
reasons. And there's nothing worse than loving someone for the wrong
reasons.
I asked some of my friends who are very upset with the
simplicity of Pope Francis; I said: what were you upset about; what are
you upset about? "We loved Benedict! We loved the clothes, we loved the
fanon". We loved all these exotic things from museum cupboards"! But I
said: did you remember Pope Benedict's homily on Christmas Midnight
Mass, do you remember what he said on Holy Thursday, do you remember
what he said at the Stations of the Cross at the colosseum? "No! I
liked the clothing".
As Archbishop of Buenos Aires, Jorge Maria Bergoglio was never a fan of
the Tridentine Mass, and he only allowed it when it was mandated by Pope
Benedict for the entire Church. There is nothing wrong with the
Tridentine Mass; it was a very beautiful attempt of Pope Benedict to
make peace in the Church. But for adherents of that Mass who wish to use
it as a weapon of division, as a denial of the Council, as a mean
spirited force; no liturgy in the name of Jesus Christ is meant to do
that. Whether one celebrates the New Rite, the Extraordinary Form, the
Rite of Paul VI, or whatever, it is ultimately about Jesus Christ and
his life giving action in that celebration.
UPDATE: Vox Cantoris has published a commentary on Fr. Rosica's speech, "Rosicanism".
My own commentary may be read here.
UPDATE: Vox Cantoris has published a commentary on Fr. Rosica's speech, "Rosicanism".
My own commentary may be read here.
1 comment:
Well its your view ,for me and for millions of other Roman Catholics we seek Orthodoxy ,with a reverent liturgy,the defeat of modernism,and the seeking of excuses for sin,true reverence to the Blessed Sacrament of the Altar.Its obvious the church has withered on the vine since the 2nd Vatican Council.but with seemingly blindness so many clergy including the Holy Father carry on with the experiment,allowing abuses in the Mass,as though all is fine and dandy !
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