Council of Trent and the Changing of Rites

[fhansen]

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[Genesis315]

Who are the “ pastores ecclesiarum ” in the canon from the OP, then?

The Protestants were saying that every pastor whatsoever without exception had the right to change or omit the rites of the church (the “quemcumque” is part of the erroneous Protestant affirmation that is being condemned). That error is being condemned and by condemning it, the contradictory is therefore affirmed by the Council. The Council is saying no, not every pastor in the Church can change or omit the Church’s rites (as an aside, that truth was later reaffirmed explicitly by Vatican II in Sacrosanctum Concilium 22).

In your first post, you mistakenly turned the condemnation into an affirmation of it’s contrary–you read it as saying “no pastors of the Church can make changes.” That is not what it says. It only condemns that all pastors can make changes. The canon does not deny that some pastors, but not all, are authorized to make changes.

 

[goout]

The assertion that whatever rite is in place must stand in stone doesn’t hold up.
Think about it. The document in reference is from the 1500’s, and the Church was already 1500 years old at that time, having gone through many changes from the Patristic days. The Church did not begin in the 1500’s.
Think about it and use some common sense.

 

[Tannhauser_1509]

In your first post, you mistakenly turned the condemnation into an affirmation of it’s contrary–you read it as saying “no pastors of the Church can make changes.” That is not what it says. It only condemns that all pastors can make changes. The canon does not deny that some pastors, but not all, are authorized to make changes.

That helps. Thanks.