Another young person’s reaction to Pope Francis about liturgical reform

[johnnyc176]

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Pope Benedict, in issuing his monumentally important Summorum Pontificum, ensured that there would be a dialogue of the two forms, traditional and post-Conciliar. There is now a channel for the forward flow. However, Benedict hoped for mutual enrichment of the forms. He issued his norms and then, at the end of the instructive letter to the world’s bishops that accompanied the Motu Proprio, entrusted those norms to the Blessed Virgin. Did you know that? Benedict entrusted his project to Mary.

Neither Benedict nor Francis command the tide any more than King Cnute. We can only channel it. That’s what Summorum Pontificum is: it’s like a channel. Channels guide the flow.

 

[Beryllos]

 

[twf]

I find that younger priests are much more likely to chant so we are seeing “reform of the reform” on the ground.

 

[otjm]

I find that younger priests are much more likely to chant so we are seeing “reform of the reform” on the ground.

I don’t know that it is so much a reform as it is a use of what is already and has been, available within the GIRM and rubrics.

Again, the younger priests, who have been referred to as the JP2" priests, have different issues than their older priests, so it should be no surprise.

 

[Samuel_Mary]

I don’t know that it is so much a reform as it is a use of what is already and has been, available within the GIRM and rubrics.

Again, the younger priests, who have been referred to as the JP2" priests, have different issues than their older priests, so it should be no surprise.

I find that younger priests are much more likely to chant so we are seeing “reform of the reform” on the ground.

It’s an inevitable and organic development, a generation that was not around at the time of the council is never going to be formed by its perceived ‘spirit’’ but rather by the letter of the concilliar documents themselves - after all those are timeless, while the spirit was temporal (and always a nebulous concept anyway)

And yes it’s not reform of the reform as such, just a different perspective on the same materials on which the reform is based.

The reform is not a linear process but a ship on a journey, if it veered off course in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s it is being put back on course by the JPII babies, back towards its correct destination which is a liturgy formed by Sacrosanctum Concillium yet simultaneously not a radical departure from the preceding 1,970 years of Catholic tradition.