It is to be found at all levels of the society. These will always only be a small elite, not in the sense of academic titles or economic power but of spiritual force and independence of mind. She attracts those who have an internal readiness for resistance. In the formlessness of modern society, the old liturgy is really a foreign body. Goethe calls attention to the anthropological fact that reverence is not a natural characteristic of man, but that he must acquire it. We must accept the sad fact that a great part of the believers who have remained in the Church have been in the meantime reeducated. She didn't consider that in an age of mass democracy a revolution, even when imposed by the actions of authority, must very soon become unmanageable. She dared a “reform of the Mass” that was, in truth, a revolution from above. That wisdom that is so fondly ascribed to the Catholic Church deserted her totally in the 20th century. Rather it led to a total exit from the Church. MM: The adherents of the Traditional liturgy must acknowledge that there was a popular movement against the new liturgy - but it wasn't a movement for the old one.
As the MFL brought people each year from all over the country to DC, the hope is that this first-annual National Summorum Pontificum Pilgrimage will do the same for the cause of Tradition. The plan is for the pilgrimage to become an annual event, as long as it is needed, like the March for Life. Catholics who love the TLM and want to participate in a public witness of its vitality. It's not intended only for DC-VA Catholics who are currently being hit with draconian restrictions, but for ALL U.S. It is worth highlighting here the intended national scope of the pilgrimage. It has also been the subject of a piece at OnePeterFive. Rorate is pleased to see the momentum building for the National Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage this Saturday. Edward Pentin has done a fine job covering it at the National Catholic Register. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. Id quod maioribus nostris sacrum erat, nobis manet sacrum et grande. But what can never be canceled by any power on earth is the immutable principle on which this document is based: Today is -or rather, would have been -the 15th anniversary of the going-into-effect of Pope Benedict XVI's greatest gift to the Church, Summorum Pontificum. This, in turn, imposes genuine moral and ecclesial duties upon us and bestows corresponding rights. But this much is always true and will always be true: man is not master over divine liturgy rather, all of us, from the lowest-ranking layman to the pope himself, are called to be stewards of God’s best and choicest gifts. Paul VI’s new liturgical books, drafted in unseemly haste by an audacious committee of arrogant men who placed themselves above and outside of the stream of tradition as its jury, judge, and executioner, visited upon the longsuffering Roman Catholic faithful a hasty and far-reaching reform permeated with nominalism, voluntarism, Protestantism, rationalism, antiquarianism, hyperpapalism, and other modern errors. The prominent identifying traits of all traditional rites, Eastern and Western-including, of course, the classical Roman Rite-are markedly and designedly absent from or optional in the Novus Ordo, estranging it from their company and making it impossible to call it “the Roman rite” at all.
The fruit of decades of research, experience, reflection, and debate, Once and Future Roman Rite argues that the guiding principle for all authentic Christian liturgy is sacred Tradition, which originates from Christ and is unfolded theologically and liturgically by the Holy Spirit throughout the life of the Church, in each age and across the ages.
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