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Here is an article someone posted on a thread that I wanted to repost so more people will see it. This Priest displays a lot of good sense in what he writes and seems to understand the importance of the liturgy in the life of the Church and for the sanctification of the believer.
Here is a snippet:
"There are other areas, such as liturgical music and catechetical texts, which have also contributed to the lessening of the notion of holiness in Church life. Worship, however, is the true teacher of the Faith. As Pope St. Celestine I aptly put it, “legem credendi statuit lex orandi” (the rule of prayer determines the rule of faith). The parish priest facilitates some degree of renewal of the sacred, but without better, more defined reinforcement via the Liturgy in its translations, then a Renaissance of the Holy will not be achieved. The very fact that even a minority of Catholics still request the Tridentine Mass and that the Holy See has decreed that it should be offered to them, should speak something to those who maintain that the status quo is without need of reform.
In a secular, high-tech, and materialistic age, modern man is in acute starvation for a supernatural religion which is neither manichaean nor pantheist. The Roman Catholic Faith is best suited to offer homo novus a Christo-centric synthesis of the two worlds of body and soul by means of the Incarnation. This theological hylomorphism is best explained in the Church’s Liturgy. Through cult, the people express their yearning for The Holy One, as well as their desire to grow in personal holiness. Thus, the second mark of the Church is superbly manifested to the world. Any attenuation of that necessary holiness, its symbolic and liturgical expression or even its linguistic reference, will infect the Body of Christ as a malignant virus, ultimately contaminating the other three marks of Christ’s Spotless Bride."
4marks.com/articles/detai…rticle_id=1975
God bless.
Here is a snippet:
"There are other areas, such as liturgical music and catechetical texts, which have also contributed to the lessening of the notion of holiness in Church life. Worship, however, is the true teacher of the Faith. As Pope St. Celestine I aptly put it, “legem credendi statuit lex orandi” (the rule of prayer determines the rule of faith). The parish priest facilitates some degree of renewal of the sacred, but without better, more defined reinforcement via the Liturgy in its translations, then a Renaissance of the Holy will not be achieved. The very fact that even a minority of Catholics still request the Tridentine Mass and that the Holy See has decreed that it should be offered to them, should speak something to those who maintain that the status quo is without need of reform.
In a secular, high-tech, and materialistic age, modern man is in acute starvation for a supernatural religion which is neither manichaean nor pantheist. The Roman Catholic Faith is best suited to offer homo novus a Christo-centric synthesis of the two worlds of body and soul by means of the Incarnation. This theological hylomorphism is best explained in the Church’s Liturgy. Through cult, the people express their yearning for The Holy One, as well as their desire to grow in personal holiness. Thus, the second mark of the Church is superbly manifested to the world. Any attenuation of that necessary holiness, its symbolic and liturgical expression or even its linguistic reference, will infect the Body of Christ as a malignant virus, ultimately contaminating the other three marks of Christ’s Spotless Bride."
4marks.com/articles/detai…rticle_id=1975
God bless.
