More TLM
Follow this link to an interesting commentary on the Traditional Latin Mass.
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102706B
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=102706B
posted by Fr LWG at 2:42 PM
Friday, October 27, 2006
About Me
- Name: Fr LWG
- Location: Peoria, Arizona, United States
Fr Loren Gonzales is a priest of the Diocese of Phoenix AZ currently shepherding a parish in Peoria. Fr Gonzales received his MDiv from the Franciscan School of Theology of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley CA. He was ordained to the presbyterate by the late Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, + Most Rev Carl Fisher. He is a former member of the Order of Friars Servants of Mary (Servites). He has ministered in the Archdioceses of Denver and San Francisco, and the Dioceses of Oakland, Orange, and Tucson, where he has served the people of God as a catechist, campus minister, liturgist, musician, parochial vicar and vocation director. His an advocate of the Reform of the Reform.Two years ago he received faculties from the Bishop of the Diocese of Phoenix, + Most Rev Thomas Olmsted, to celebrate the Classical Liturgy according to the indult Ecclesia Dei. On September 14, 2007 Fr Gonzales celebrated a Missa Cantata in honor of His Holiness’ Motu Propio Summorum Pontificum. He celebrates the usus antiquor regularly. This blog, Overheard in the Sacristy, is inspired by his smattering of memoirs, Fifty Sophomoric Summers.
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2 Comments:
Dear Father,
As I take in the blogosphere treatment of the upcoming indult (ojala que si), and the opposition that it is evidently engendering, I am left to wonder: since the Traditional Mass would be available only as an option (where not prohibited), and thus no one would be compelled to assist at it who did not wish to, why are the French bishops and others, rumored to include some embedded in the Curia, who oppose it, so determined? They would not, after all, have to suffer through it themselves.
The only answer that I can think of is simply that for such people, the Mass of Paul VI does in fact represent a concrete expression of a substantial break with the pre-Conciliar way of believing and doing things, including, but not just limited to, the liturgy. Therefore it would seem that reintroduction of the TLM would threaten the ascendancy of their view of how the Church is to be taught and led in this period. And if this is correct, why is that type of thinking not precisely the hermeneutics of rupture that Pope Benedict deplored in his allocution of 22 December 2005? Why, indeed, is it not an admission that for such people, Vatican II really does represent the Revolution come into the Church? Or as one venerable prelate said: It is as if they believe the Church only started with Vatican II.
If I am right, then, the stakes in this struggle are much greater than merely restoring the TLM as an option for those who would take advantage of it, or even for the regularization of those whose status with regard to the Church is unclear at the moment at best.
Wishing you all the best.
We are engaged in a spiritual battle. Victory is in Christ Jesus.
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