bear06:
This was the quote I was referring to and the dear abbot makes it clear that this is not true nor did the protestants have (name removed by moderator)ut into the council concerning the Mass.
Proof: From the horse’s mouth:
from our Catholic prayers and from the Catholic liturgy
everything which can be the shadow of a stumbling block for our separated brethren, that is
for the Protestants " (Annibale Bugnini, co-author of the New Mass. L’Osservatore Romano, 19 March, 1965) We pray as we believe …lex orandi, lex credendi.
In 1967,
Cardinal W. W. Baum, who was executive director of the American Catholic Bishop’s Commission on Ecumenical Affairs, admitted in the June 27, issue of
The Detroit News:
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"They (the six Protestant ministers) are not simply there as observers, but as consultants as well, and they participate fully in the discussions on Catholic liturgical renewal. It wouldn’t mean much if they just listened, but they contributed." The December 22, 1972 issue of
The London Catholic Herald quoted a prominent Anglican minister as stating:
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"Today’s liturgical study has brought our respective liturgies to a remarkable similarity, so that there is very little difference in the sacrificial phrasing of the prayer of oblation in the Series Three (Anglican “Mass”) and that of Eucharistic Prayer II in the
Missa Normativa (New “Mass”)" M. G. Siegvalt, a professor of dogmatic theology in the Protestant faculty at Strasbourg:
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** in the renewed Catholic Mass need really trouble the Evangelical Protestant "(* Le Monde*, 22 November, 1969).
Jean Guitton, a close friend of Pope Paul VI and a lay-observer at Vatican II, quoted a Protestant journal as praising the manner in which the new Eucharistic prayers had :
“dropped the false perspective of a sacrifice being offered to God” (La Croix
, 10 December, 1969).
"If one takes account of the decisive evolution of the Eucharistic liturgy
of the Catholic Church, of the
option of substituting other Eucharistic prayers for the Canon of the Mass,
of expunging (
l’ effacement) of the idea that the Mass is a sacrifice, and of the possibility of
receiving communion under both kinds, then there is no further justification for the Reformed Churches forbidding their members to assist at the Eucharist in a Catholic Church" (
Le Monde, 10 September, 1970). This Site is a virtual tirade against Trads who deny the validity of the NOM. …which is NOT my point in this post
matt1618.freeyellow.com/detection1-3.html
BUT:
He uses many of the above quotes, and does not deny ANY of them as untrue.
My point that the NOM was designed with protestant acceptance in mind, be it by intelligent design or a massive amount of coincidence, stands unafflicted.
God Bless