H/T Raffaella at Il blog degli amici di Papa Ratzinger
(In an earlier version of this post, I mistook the import of the Italian article. I thought it was referring to the clarification that we are expecting to be issued from the Holy See and/or any information or guidance resulting from the three yearly review of Summorum Pontificum. Nevertheless, Archbishop Burke's comments are significant. My apologies for the error.)
At NLM, Gregor Kollmorgen has posted various links and an English translation of a key passage from Archbishop Burke's introduction. Preface of Msgr. Burke to Canonical Commentary on Summorum Pontificum.
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Father,
the full text of the introduction (in German language)can be found here: http://www.summorum-pontificum.de/texte/burke_weishaupt.shtml
Regards,
Fr. Marc
Thank you, Archbishop Burke. The traditional Latin Mass is one of few opportunities to escape lay ministers and altar girls, and it would be a shame if wreckovaters got their way with that too.
Though I actually haven't heard of any TLM with lay ministers or altar girls. There was of course that dreadful case of some bishop (I forget the details) who refused to let a planned TLM go forward unless they used an altar girl-- what a gratuitous slap in the face that was. For that reason alone, the Archbishop's clarification was needed.
Fr Marc - many thanks. Gregor Kollmorgen also commented on the link on FB so I picked up that I had made a mistake in the original version of this post.
The problem with comments of this sort is that they maginalise supporters of the usus ant.We know that with proper authority it can be celebrated in the vernacular, have female servers and be celebratad "versus populum" as it always was by the Popes in my youth.It must not be made a museum piece which is what the opponents want.
Oh Rachel, it's "lovely" you really think little boys are actually "clerics." How cute.
[And thank you, Vetusta, EXACTLY right. I wonder if Rachel gets hysterical if a woman counts the collection money...because to be consistent only men should be doing that...]
Vetusta,
Yes, marginalisation is a problem, altho' I would not cast it in your terms; you seem to be suggesting that the same things that have attenuated the modern form of the liturgy be admitted to the older form, a preconciliar process which, of itself, was in part a thrust towards liturgical modernism. It doesn't get us very far. I am quite sure that no pope before JPII allowed female altar servers. It should also be pointed out that things like ad orientem worship are be recovered in the modern rite alos in various places, not least through the example of the pope (6th Jan masses in the Sistine chapel).
I do think that traddies very often marginalise themselves by at least appearing to be prone to aestheticism; certainly to have too narrow a view about what vestments & architecture should be employed in churches etc...
We will have to wait a very long time for an officially sanctioned vernacular old rite missal. I suspect the reason for this, aside from hostility from traditionalists, is that then the writing would well and truly be on the wall for the novus ordo.
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