Liturgy in Lintz (Germany)

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Lay Pastoral Assistant Claudia Zethofer opened First Sunday of Lent´s Mass in 2002 with this “Prayer”: “We begin this service in the name of the divine Power who created all Beauty in this world. In the name of Jesus Christ who opened our eyes to the love that is in us and around us. In the name of the Holy Spirit - of the divine Ruakh. She unites us and keeps us together.”
Another project irritates many Catholics. A newly edited “Women´s Lectionary” with alternative Bible readings, which has been tested in 20 parishes for a period of 3 years, was presented during an official study day sponsored by the Diocese.
Gender-inclusive language and liturgical vestments

The pages with the “Women´s Sermons Notes” are managed by a committee called “Liturgical Reform from Women´s Perspective”. This group is composed by members of the Diocesan Women´s Commission and offers workshops with titles such as “On Sisters, Female Disciples & The Like”. Their goal is achieving “a gender-inclusive language in Liturgy” and “granting woman an appropriate place in the services (according to their role, including liturgical vestments)”.
Ultimate goal: Equality of rights for women in Church

Behind these liturgical experiments is the official diocesan Women´s Commission and its stated goal of "making again women visible in Church ". Such projects bring this goal´s accomplishment nearer by reaching a factual equality of “rights” for women in the Church. The Commission´s Website states: “This institutional basis means a special challenge for the Church Hierarchy and the Women´s Commission because it expresses the wish for structural changes and ultimately the factual equality of men and women in the Church”.

The website goes further: “We should not make the mistake of taking some positive changes, such as the creation of a Women´s Commission and the existence of an official Woman´s Representative in the Diocese, as a sign that structural injustices relating to gender issues have been solved”. As examples of this “injustice” the site mentions the exclusion of women from the offices of Deacon and Priest and the fact that conclusions taken from Feminist Theology are classified as irrelevant.

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and the remainder:

The Vatican: Sermons are a prerogative of Priests and Deacons"

The Instruction “Redemptionis Sacramentum”, issued by the Vatican in Spring 2004 has clear words for these liturgical experiments. A sermon made by a layperson is not accepted: “As was already noted above, the homily on account of its importance and its nature is reserved to the Priest or Deacon during Mass” (161)
The new Instruction may be read as a “Mirror of Conscience”, says the Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn, in a statement dated from April 2004. It poses some “critical questions to all baptized people in the Church, specially to priests and bishops. Yes, even bishops should ask themselves if they haven´t forgotten to do their “homework” and looked away (from liturgical abuses, the translator)”.

Believers have the right of a proper Church-approved Liturgy

Cardinal Schönborn, who is also Austrian Bishop´s Conference President, stressed that believers have the right “of a proper liturgy celebrated according to the Church norms and not to services based on subjective feelings”. The instruction has a legal character, says Cardinal Schönborn, and this character can be felt in the language it uses. "You read often about “abuses that must be stopped”.
Reliable sources informed KATH.NET that the Congregation for Liturgy and the Sacraments in Rome could well take a closer look at the liturgical abuses in the Diocese of Linz. Protest letters and queries on this subject have already been sent to Rome, and it will probably also be discussed at the Austrian Bishops Conference´s next meeing. KATH.NET has asked several Austrian Bishops for their opinion on this matter and will keep you informed. *Translation by Jose Martins
 
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and the remainder:

The Vatican: Sermons are a prerogative of Priests and Deacons"
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You know it, I know it, Schoenborn knows it - someone ought to tell Lintz.
 
Scullinius,

There is also a Linz in Germany. Techincally, it’s Linz am Rhein in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It’s north-east of Koblenz. It’s also about 50 miles from Weisbaden, where I lived for three years.

Deacon Ed
 
can we restore the Old Mass now!!??

Or at least give the priests the RIGHT to say the Mass of Tradition and not be subject to heretical bishops and diocese?
 
Deacon Ed:
Scullinius,

There is also a Linz in Germany. Techincally, it’s Linz am Rhein in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It’s north-east of Koblenz. It’s also about 50 miles from Weisbaden, where I lived for three years.

Deacon Ed
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Lucky you! 😃

This article makes reference to the “Austrian Diocese of Linz,” and also quotes (sort of) “Archbishop of Vienna, Christoph Cardinal Schönborn,” who is also “Austrian Bishop´s Conference President.”

Here’s the diocesan website:

Katholische Kirche in Oberösterreich - Diözese Linz Online

When are the Germans (and Austrians) going to come up with their own word for “online”?
 
Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The expression “Liturgical Marketplace” foreshadows already to some extent the self-secularisation of Christian reflection and talk about the Holy. The liturgy, as well as endeavours in the forefront of it, do not deserve to be compared with a marketing event, which is concerned with making business, exchanging material goods and with speculations on prices. Concerning the central issue, it has to be stated that the invitation for women to give homilies during Holy Mass, which is implied by such documents, violates the law and the discipline of the church. As regards the contents: If the content of the service of the word and of the proclamation of the Gospel are aimed exclusively at women, this contradicts the instruction of Christ who wants that through him “all might believe” (Jn 1,7).

KATH.NET: What do you say to the fact that in 20 parishes of the Diocese of Linz the official church readings are not used any longer, because they have been replaced by “Women’s Pericopes”?

Cardinal Leo Scheffczyk: The replacement of official church readings or the introduction of “alternatives” by “Women’s Pericopes” is a selection of the Gospel, an arbitrary human reduction of the word of God. If even certain texts and writings are screened and deemed to be unsuitable, then we are in danger of reducing the Gospel to certain “suitable” texts. As a matter of fact, this is the rejection of the authority of the canon of the Holy Scriptures. By this we see the revolutionary potential that is intrinsic in such individualisms. Furthermore such regulations are strictly reserved to the Holy See and within the scope of the law to the diocesan bishop.

KATH.NET: One of the “Women’s Sermons” contains the following text: “We begin this service. In the name of the divine strength that has created all the beauty of our world. In the name of Jesus Christ, who has opened our eyes for the love in ourselves and around us. In the name of the Holy Ghost, the divine ruach. She is joining us and keeping us together.” What is your reaction?

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