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MY PREVIOUS POST was somewhat along the lines of automatic writing, expressing immediate reaction more than cool analysis. So, now I find myself noting a few other things, and a raising a few questions, Maybe someone wiser than I might address them.
- Interestingly the papal attitude to those who “adhere” to pre-conciliar liturgical forms is to view them not with pastoral care but “paternal solicitude” (para 2 of preamble).These are not mutually exclusive, of course, but this language was no doubt chosen deliberately. Traditionalists are to be seen naughty children, perhaps?
- And these naughty children adhere (with childish stubbornness??) to “liturgical forms antecedent to the reform willed by the Vatican Council II” (ibid.). This seems to imply that any form subsequent to the Council is viewed with parental approval. So, Ordo MIssae 65 is OK? What about the Ordinariate Use? It is post-conciliar (yay) but not the Ordinary Form (boo) nor “promulgated by Saint Paul VI and Saint John Paul II” (Art 1). Has the curial task force forgotten about the Ordinariate? Or are they saving them for another document?
Continued below.Traditionis custodes: A Few Questions et al | One Foot in the Cloister
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