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[27.] As early as the year 1970, the Apostolic See announced the cessation of all experimentation as regards the celebration of Holy Mass[62] and reiterated the same in 1988.[63] Accordingly, individual Bishops and their Conferences do not have the faculty to permit experimentation with liturgical texts or the other matters that are prescribed in the liturgical books. In order to carry out experimentation of this kind in the future, the permission of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments is required. It must be in writing, and it is to be requested by the Conference of Bishops. In fact, it will not be granted without serious reason. As regards projects of inculturation in liturgical matters, the particular norms that have been established are strictly and comprehensively to be observed.[64]
How do you know that the Congregaation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments has not given permission to your Bishops? There are some parts of the Mass like the consecration that can not be changed even by the Pope but there are other parts that can be changed. By experimentation was this what was being talked about or was it the Priest going to the laity in their seats and giving them communion, was it using levened bread, or bread made with ingredients that are not normal or Priests using prayers other than those prescribed for the consecration that the Pope and the Congegation was getting at. I have heard of all of the things I mentioned above as having occured. Unless you are a Canon Lawyer I would take my question to my Bishop or the Conference of Bishops before going to the Congregation for Divine Worship. We have a very sedate Mass but in parts of Africa they dance while singing during the Mass. Different cultures and different circumstances result in different practices that have been deamed acceptable by the Congregation for Devine Worship.
We know what the Church approves of—because it is stated in Her liturgical books/laws/directives/norms. For something to be incorporated into the Mass–it needs to be submitted to and receive a recognitio from Rome —which would then make it allowable to be done in Mass. Unless you or anyone else can find an authoritative document where the Church prescribes blessings at communion time via directives in liturgical books/laws/norms–it was an illicit practice when it started and continues to be an illicit practice—since it has
not become part of the Church’s prescribed liturgical books/laws/directives/norms.
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[11.] The Mystery of the Eucharist “is too great for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim, so that its sacredness and its universal ordering would be obscured”.[27] On the contrary, anyone who acts thus by giving free reign to his own inclinations, even if he is a Priest, injures the substantial unity of the Roman Rite, which ought to be vigorously preserved,[28] and becomes responsible for actions that are in no way consistent with the hunger and thirst for the living God that is experienced by the people today. Nor do such actions serve authentic pastoral care or proper liturgical renewal; instead, they deprive Christ’s faithful of their patrimony and their heritage. For arbitrary actions are not conducive to true renewal,[29] but are detrimental to the right of Christ’s faithful to a liturgical celebration that is an expression of the Church’s life in accordance with her tradition and discipline. In the end, they introduce elements of distortion and disharmony into the very celebration of the Eucharist, which is oriented in its own lofty way and by its very nature to signifying and wondrously bringing about the communion of divine life and the unity of the People of God.[30] The result is uncertainty in matters of doctrine, perplexity and scandal on the part of the People of God, and, almost as a necessary consequence, vigorous opposition, all of which greatly confuse and sadden many of Christ’s faithful in this age of ours when Christian life is often particularly difficult on account of the inroads of “secularization” as well.[31]
[12.] On the contrary, it is the right of all of Christ’s faithful that the Liturgy, and in particular the celebration of Holy Mass, should truly be as the Church wishes, according
to her stipulations as prescribed in the liturgical books and in the other laws and norms. Likewise, the Catholic people have the right that the Sacrifice of the Holy Mass should be celebrated for them in an integral manner, according to the entire doctrine of the Church’s Magisterium. Finally, it is the Catholic community’s right that the celebration of the Most Holy Eucharist should be carried out for it in such a manner that it truly stands out as a sacrament of unity, to the exclusion of all blemishes and actions that might engender divisions and factions in the Church.[32]
