Posted on 10/20/2020 4:44:21 PM PDT by ebb tide
Would you say there is a connection between the postconciliar liturgy and the dwindling belief in transubstantiation?
Yes, I’m afraid it’s impossible to deny the connection. The classical Roman rite as it developed over so many centuries acquired numerous and very expressive gestures of adoration and care toward the Holy Sacrament, precisely because it is not a mere “thing,” but under the signs of bread and wine a divine Person is really present. How we treat Him is how we show our faith in Him and our love for Him. The liturgical reform cruelly diminished these gestures and introduced other practices, now habitual to the point of being immovable, that suggest we are dealing with common food and drink that, in the context of Mass, are given a new symbolic meaning (the technical term for this heresy is “transsignification”). The reformed rite is redolent of a Lutheran or Calvinist conception of the Eucharist. That is the “faith,” if one can call it that, of the vast majority of Catholics in the Western world.
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Not so here in Gozo. Less that ten minutes walk from my home is the Chapel of the Eucharist, where the Blessed Sacrament is kept beneath a votive light, and where I can pray in the sure knowledge that I am in the Real Presence of our Lord. My own thoughts I frame in English, but for the traditional prayers I use only the Latin. Pascha nostrum immolatus est Christus, alleluia.
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