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rpp
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You are not interested in informing your conscience?
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You are not interested in informing your conscience?
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Newbie2
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Both have good points; we are not obligated as faithful to read such documents; they can be very difficult reading and difficult as well to understand. Many times well-studied theologians can disagree about what is meant in some finer points of such documents.
As well, not everyone is even interested, as pro multis doesn’t seem to be and benedictgal seems to be in reading them. Not everyone leans toward legalism.
On the other hand, they can provide a wealth of information on our faith in one IF interested.
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Brian_C
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Right, and it does bring up a good point. What is our responsibility as laity to be up on liturgical norms and canon law? I’m not saying I prefer a “Don’t ask. Don’t tell” policy. But really, those of us on here who worry and fret over every single deviation are a minority. What of the faithful who have no idea which aspects of their weekly mass attendance are unapproved local contrivances? What is the burden on “us” and “them?”
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bmadamsberry
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If the faithful were illiterate and uneducated, having no access to these documents or if they were difficult to attain, then and only then would I agree that the burden laid upon the bishops (upon the bishops, because the priests derive from the bishop, and so it is his duty to keep them accountable). However, because we do have access it is our duty to at least have a nominal knowledge, and I think that this thread topic is one of those that we should have some knowledge of. It is the way that we worship G-d (it is not our Mass, but G-d’s Mass. However, I think that we own it in the sense of, as worshippers of G-d, we should feel it important that the way we worship is holy and worthy).
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