Posted on 03/15/2022 6:04:04 PM PDT by marshmallow
The Vatican says it understands difficulties in following synodal decisions but wants to avoid activism and protests
The Vatican has endorsed the decision of India’s Syro-Malabar Church to follow uniformity in liturgical celebration in its latest attempt to put an end to the five-decade-long dispute in the Eastern-rite church.
Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Vatican's Congregation for the Oriental Churches, backed last August's decision by the church's synod of bishops to adopt uniformity in liturgy and end all differences over the issue.
“It is basically a directive to go along with the decisions of the synod,” Cardinal George Alencherry, the major archbishop of the Syro-Malabar Church, said in a March 11 letter releasing Cardinal Sandri’s communiqué to bishops, priests and laity.
Cardinal Sandri in his Feb. 28 letter disagreed with the decision of Archbishop Antony Kariyil, the metropolitan vicar of Ernakulam-Angamaly, to grant dispensation to the entire diocese from complying with the synod decision after the majority of archdiocesan priests and laity opposed to it.
The Vatican also ordered Archbishop Kariyil to revoke the dispensation given to the archdiocese asserting the authority of the synod over any individual bishop when it comes to a policy decision.
The synod last August wanted all its 35 dioceses in India and abroad to follow uniformity in liturgical celebration, ending the situation of some priests celebrating Mass facing the congregation and most others facing the altar.
The synod in 1999 had ruled that all priests “will face the congregation until the Eucharistic prayer, and then again from communion to the end of the Mass. From Eucharistic prayers until communion, the priest will face the altar.”
However, following opposition, the 1999 synod decision could not be implemented in all dioceses, but in August 2021 it decided to implement the uniform Mass. All dioceses except Ernakulam-Angamaly.......
(Excerpt) Read more at ucanews.com ...
Yet frankenbishops such as Cupcake Cupich are doing the opposite: prohibiting priests from celebrating "ad orientem".
Bergoglio is taking the "catholic (universal)" out of his frankenchurch, while calling for "uniformity" in his wicked Traditionis Custodes.
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