How to contact Guido Marini, Master of Papal Ceremonies?

[PaixGioiaAmor]

I dont hate the position at all. I have never had a bad experience…and the Liturgy Portion of my training comes from the director of Liturgy in my diocese…who happens to be…GASP!.. a deacon!

Wow liturgists are on par with Canonists and Church Historians?

I cannot think of ONE church in my diocese that has a Liturgist…we must be out in the cold.!?

Your arrogance is overwhelming.

Yes liturgists are on par - I hope you realize that there are doctoral degrees in canon law, Church history, and yes, liturgy. It’s not some mickey mouse position.

 

[PaixGioiaAmor]

I your pastor told me that I would tell him that I was going to the Bishop…and if the bishop was unresponsive I would go to the Vatican…thats the order things are to play out without exception.

Seems to me that it would expidite the complaint anyways.

Would you be, in this hypothetical case, too good to speak to me? How arrogant.

The pastor, yes, is responsible for liturgy - and everything else - in his parish. But even though he “runs” the school, he has a principal, does he not? And even though he is in charge of religious education, he has (usually) a DRE, right? Why not have a staff person for music and liturgy as well? And why not refer comments and complaints to the person on his staff who handles it?

Pope Benedict is the chief liturgist for the universal church - but even he has your beloved Cardinal Arinze to speak for him on such matters.

I have a great deal of experience with the permanent diaconate - and as a result, I have a very great affinity and love for permanent deacons. But some of your opinions, views, and attitudes are simply breathtaking.

 

[PaixGioiaAmor]

Just out of curiousity, do you work at the Chancery? How would you be privvy to what Cardnial Arinze said (or what he thought, for that matter)?

Not to be disrespectful, but the situation we are facing is not some minor hand-slap. There are some serious things that haven’t been addressed and need to be. Rome is the last resort, as Redemptionis Sacramentum notes. The bishop, being the chief liturgical steward, must tend to the serious issues in his diocese. If he does not, then we do have the right to go to Rome.

Because this is a message board (and not the least because most of you have vitriol for me reserved usually only for communist dictators), I’m not going to say exactly who I work for. If that somehow diminishes any credibility you can see in me in your book, so be it.

Let’s just say I am relatively close to the very situation that sparked the letter to the good cardinal - and thus have also been close to the responses to our bishop’s office.

 

[Jean_Anthony]

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