[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s House Liturgist: “Limit Access to the Traditional Rite”

Eponymous Flower ^ | April 12, 2019

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[Catholic Caucus] Pope’s House Liturgist: “Limit Access to the Traditional Rite”

Andrea Grillo, the liturgist who is heard by Pope Francis, prefers to dispose of Summorum Pontificum today rather than tomorrow and is looking for crown witnesses.

(Rome) In the spirit of its political analogues, the ecclesiastical left demands the end of freedom. The liturgical scientist Andrea Grillo, a dogged opponent of the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, who finds an open ear in the Italian Episcopal Conference and in Santa Marta, is calling for stricter access to the traditional rite.

The free exercise of religion for believers and especially priests of the tradition should, according to the liturgist Andrea Grillo, be restricted. As reason for his demand he identifies the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum, that of Pope Benedict XVI., adopted in 2007. Summorum Pontificum, which have a homeland to the traditional form of the Roman rite, leads, according to Grillo, to an "ever more paralyzing embarrassment" in the Corpus ecclesiae, which is why it urgently needs a return to a unified rite - and that could only be the Novus Ordo.

Andrea Grillo teaches liturgical sciences at the Roman Pontifical Athenaeum Sant'Anselmo of the Benedictine Order. He is not an isolated gambler, but is much appreciated in Santa Marta as a kind of "house liturgist" by Pope Francis.

Hate object Summorum Pontificum

In mid-2017, he attacked Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Roman Congregation for Worship and the Order of the Sacraments, with unbelievable severity. He insulted the Cardinal for being "incompetent" and "unsuited" for his office. At the same time, he accused Benedict XVI, whom he called only "Ratzinger", of being the cause of the Church's "failure".

Grillo's enemy image of the traditional rite

The wrath of the Novus Ordo liturgist was challenged by Cardinal Sarah's persistent call to all priests to return to the East or ad Deum celebrations, as well as Benedict XVI's. ordered reform of Missal translations in the vernacular languages.

Grillo is a key figure of the inner-Church secret commission that Pope Francis established in late 2016. He works behind the back of Cardinal Sarah, the prefect responsible, but with the consent of Pope Francis at an "ecumenical Mass". It would be the definitive "liturgical revolution" after the radical liturgical reform of 1969, as Riccardo Cascioli, the editor-in-chief of Nuova Bussola Quotidiana, wrote in June 2017.

The existence of this commission, which was revealed by the Vatican Marco Tosatti on December 26, 2016, has not been confirmed by the Vatican, but denied at the end of 2017. The corresponding rumors and hints persist, however, and do not allow any reasonable doubt as to the existence of this liturgical commission. In January 2017, Spanish columnist Francisco Fernandez de la Cigoña even revealed the names of the commissioners - including Andrea Grillo.

Grillo is one of those in the papal entourage who is worried about a "renunciation of renunciation." What if Benedict XVI, who has continued to maintain his pope's name and numerous visible signs of papal dignity, resigns from his resignation and reclaims his powers as pope? Such an option seems increasingly unlikely due to age. Nevertheless, Grillo hinted at what might happen if Pope Francis was to die and to be replaced by Benedict XVI. The fear of a possible reaction of Benedict drives the liturgist, to ever new, increasingly explosive attacks. Nothing will change that as long as the German church leader lives.

While others are silent, Cardinal Sarah replied on 6 June 2017 to the attacks against Benedict XVI .:

"The arrogance, the violence of the language, the lack of respect and the inhuman contempt for Benedict XVI. are diabolical and cover the Church with a cloak of sadness

and shame. The people destroy the Church and its deeper nature. The Christian does not fight anyone. He has no enemies to defeat. "

At the same time, he emphasized that before and after the Council, the Church was and always must be the same Church, because there is no Church with two identities.

A hard patch for the traditional rite

Italy has always been a hard patch for the traditional rite. There are several reasons for this. The Italians as a Mediterranean people are quite emotional, but not dogmatic. In addition, the bond with Rome is a matter of course. The change from Vetus to Novus Ordo was correspondingly untraumatic. And corresponding difficulties are encountered by the faithful of the traditional rite for obtaining Mass locations. The bishops are largely deaf to their wishes.

There is also another factor: the massive presence of a strictly Moscow-based Communist Party and another galaxy surrounding other Marxist parties and organizations after the Second World War made a part of Catholicism eager to seek an alliance between socialism and Christianity and to accept the corresponding politicization. As a result, the Catholic world and its institutions have gradually been interspersed and disintegrated since the 1960s.

This alliance became apparent when, on 1 June 2018, the new Italian government of the Five-Star Movement and Lega was sworn in. They took power, like family minister Lorenzo Fontana. Andrea Grillo lunged at him with incredible vehemence. What makes Fontana the hate object of a liturgist? He is opposed to abortion, mass immigration, gay marriage, gender ideology and visits Mass every Sunday in the traditional rite.

Grillo initiated a conflict  and employed choice words that were previously known only by the radical left. He cursed Fontana as a "fascist" and wrote on Twitter:

Summorum Pontificum is "fascism"

"One of the requirements for Fontana's fascism is Summorum Pontificum. Memento ... "

In other words, the "home liturgist" of Pope Francis sees Summorum Pontificum as an expression of "fascism" and implicitly also Benedict XVI. as "fascists.” Grillos' verbal derailment reveals the radical nature of the unholy fusion of left-catholicism with the left-leaning left - especially in the language. The fact that he was not condemned or even reprimanded by the episcopal side or by the university where he teaches, clarifies the drama of the inner-church situation.

Fontana reacted calmly:

"The hatred of the elites does not scare me."

Crown witness Hans Urs von Balthasar

In recent months, the attacks on Summorum Pontificum in Italy have become more conspicuous, so conspicuous. It is unclear whether this is an organized thrust. Recently, Andrea Grillo also participated in this with an essay on his blog. The blog Come se non, parked on the website of Munera - a European Cultural Magazine, highlights how pinned Grillo is to the enemy image of the Summorum Pontificum, to which numerous entries are devoted.

Hans Urs von Balthasar Little Primer for the Unsettled Laity (1980)

On February 18, he led Hans Urs von Balthasar as a witness for the necessary and legitimate "end of Vetus Ordo" in the field. In his book "Little Primer for the Unsettled Layman," published in 1980, Balthasar states "with great clarity" that the traditional rite "was definitively overcome by the liturgical reform". Balthasar writes that against all criticism of the "traditionalists", whom he accuses of "sectarian" behavior, everything ultimately speaks "for the Council Church and against the traditionalists.” The Holy Mass required an urgent renewal, especially the participatio actuosa of all believers in the sacred action, which was a matter of course in the first century. The Roman canon had remained unchanged and Communion received while standing  in the hand was common until the 9th century.

Traditionalism, on the other hand, does not lean on living theology and philosophy, and for that very reason it can not claim validity today. Balthasar refers to the view of various theologians, including Joseph Ratzinger, that the traditional rite could have survived a transitional period parallel to the Novus Ordo, but then dissolved in an "organic" way and will would completely replaced by the New Rite.

So far, these are some aspects that led Balthasar in his writing. Not only do they inspire Grillo, because Balthasar can not be dismissed as a "progressive", as the liturgist emphasizes in his remarks. It is likely to encourage him because Balthasar in his remarks is repeatedly called upon by the then theologian and Archbishop of Munich-Freising, Joseph Ratzinger.

Grillos quarantine claims

Grillo draws from this his conclusions. In "Ratzinger's autobiography,”  he attributed the liturgical form to a "supplementary character" and described the Tridentine rite in the version of 1962 as "inviolable". But Balthasar's remarks would emphasize, with reference to Ratzinger, that the liturgical reform of 1969 was an "inescapable necessity," even though the previous form of the Roman rite in a "provisional and limited" wat could continue to enjoy protection. Grillo's quintessence:

Ordinary for Liturgical Sciences at the Benedictine School of Sant'Anselmo in Rome

Professor of Liturgy at the Benedictine School of Sant'Anselmo in Rome

"If one hears the words of Balthasar again at an interval of 40 years, they point out the only possible way to get out of an increasingly paralyzing embarrassment."

From this the liturgical scientist formulates his demands:

-The upswing of liturgical reform can not take place unless all work on a single rite.

-Access to the previous rite is destined to extinguish,  and can only be performed in exceptional circumstances, under the supervision of the locally competent authority.

-The "development" of the new rite, with all the corrections and necessary promotions, can only be done at a "single table": there is no other possibility that forms two rites, one of which has arisen to replace the other, other than division, disruption and discord.

Finally, Andrea Grillo triggers the guillotine:

"He [Balthasar] knew already 40 years ago that the model of 'structural rite parallelism' was not an ecclesiastical rematch of the past versus the future, but the sectarian delirium of a past that has no future."

It is "extremely worrying" that a man like Andrea Grillo is heard by Pope Francis, said  in early 2017, the Spanish columnist Francisco Fernandez de la Cigoña.

Text: Giuseppe Nardi

Image: Munera / Come non / NLM (Screenshots)

Trans: Tancred vekron99@hotmail.com

AMDG

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Author is Giuseppe Nardi.

[irishjuggler]

As a Traditional Latin Mass attendee, I consider the leftists and apostate priests & bishops who hate and try to suppress the traditional mass to be, in a sense, “correct.” They have correctly identified the traditional mass and its devotees as obstacles to their nefarious agenda. They’re quite right that we present an intractable problem for them and gains that we make are at their expense. Of course, they want to shut us down.

[Alberta's Child]

The Novus Ordo today is defined by empty churches and sexual predators and deviants in the priesthood. Give it 50 years and the Tridentine Rite will be the only thing left of the Catholic Church.

[Rocky Mountain Wild Turkey]

Excuse me, Your “Eminence” ...

This Roman knight has two words for you:

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

[irishjuggler]

To some extent, I agree with you. But I don’t expect the Novus Ordo establishment to go down without a fight. Satan never does. I’m expecting a lot of scorched-earth tactics designed to permanently wreck the Church and hinder a traditional revival. It’ll probably start with a major push soon for married priests, then women deacons, then women priests, then acceptance of contraception, abortion & homosexuality, open openly homosexual clergy, “gay marriage,” “gay married” priests, etc. The Kraut bishops are reportedly speeding along the Autobahn toward much of this already.

[Alberta's Child]

In other words, the Novus Ordo cabal will be re-arranging deck chairs on the Titanic. It’s over for them. They can push whatever nonsense they want. There won’t be anyone left in the pews to listen to them.

[steve86]

Although I assist at the Tridentine Mass only, I have to say that the Norvus Ordo is very well attended locally, both the English and Spanish vernacular variants. Parking lots full; young, old, in-between attending; but at the same time they don’t realize what they are missing in the old Latin Mass chapel down the road.

[NorthMountain]

liturgist

I have never heard of any good coming from a "liturgist".

[NTHockey]

57 years since Vatican II and they are STILL trying to suppress the True Mass. Guess that Novus Ordo junk has yet to be universally accepted. What’s next, priest holes?

[Campion]

The Novus Ordo today is defined by empty churches and sexual predators and deviants in the priesthood.

I'm on your side, but be careful with this: plenty of clerical sex abuse happened before 1962, and plenty more happened between 1962 and 1970.

[dangus]

What exactly does the author mean by “liturgist?” It seems Grillo is merely a lay theologian.

[piusv]

The “Novus Ordo establishment” has been wreaking havoc since Vatican II. True Catholics need to recognize that this is not just a liturgical issue (ie. Latin mass), but first and foremost a doctrinal issue.

[Buckeye McFrog]

I never learned Latin so this Mass would likely hold little appeal for me. I don’t think the Church should say all Masses in Latin because in 2019 most are like me. But I know many who do attend and enjoy the Latin Mass. They aren’t bothering anybody, so I really fail to see why this fellow has his knickers in a twist.

[NorthMountain]

They aren’t bothering anybody, so I really fail to see why this fellow has his knickers in a twist.

He's a leftist, and therefore a totalitarian tyrant. As such, he cannot tolerate any form of dissent.

[irishjuggler]

About 35 years ago, a priest who’d been ordained around 1940 told me that in the ‘60s he had been 100% in favor of dropping Latin in favor of the vernacular. He said that his thinking was that Latin was a barrier and a lot of protestant Americans who might otherwise switch to Catholicism were put off by the use of a foreign language. Just as the Western Church had (mostly) switched from Greek to Latin in the 5th century and subsequently flourished, the same playbook could be used in the 20th century. Twenty years later, though, he said that he decided that he’d been wrong. He said that over the course of 1500 years Latin had become a source of Catholic identity and unity like Hebrew is for Jews. Ditching Latin overnight was mistake, in his opinion.

With that said, it is hard to put the genie back in the bottle. I get the resistance to going back, as people say, “I don’t know Latin. It wouldn’t mean anything to me.” And I understand why people reflexively react that way. But, remember, it was just fine for their non-Latin-speaking ancestors for the last thousand years or so. And it’s actually pretty easy to follow along with a Latin-English missal. And the Church managed to convert non-Latin-speaking people around the world from 500-1965 with little difficulty.

[pbear8]

I never learned Latin so this Mass would likely hold little appeal for me.

The parts that are in Latin are not addressing you, they are addressing God. He knows Latin. You are well able to read, the Latin and English are printed right next to each other to help you pray along. You are an intelligent individual, you might enjoy the reverence and masculinity of the Old Rite.