Posted on 08/11/2022 6:17:33 PM PDT by marshmallow
Laity, priests and nuns from the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church have pledged to stick to the traditional Mass
The liturgical dispute in the Eastern-rite Syro-Malabar Church seems to have deepened with the laity along with priests and nuns of an archdiocese pledging to stick to their demand for celebrating Holy Mass with the priest facing the congregation.
More than 40,000 Catholics representing around 360 parishes of Ernakulam-Angamaly Archdiocese gathered at a large stadium in Kochi on Aug. 7 in open defiance of the liturgical formula mandated by the supreme synod of the church, according to which the Mass celebrant turns to the altar during the Eucharistic prayer.
Their action comes a week after the Vatican appointed Archbishop Andrews Thazhath as the apostolic administrator of the archdiocese on July 30 after removing Archbishop Antony Kariyil as its metropolitan vicar.
Archbishop Kariyil was told to resign after he failed to adopt a liturgical structure formulated by the synod. His successor has been reportedly tasked with a mandate to implement the synod-Mass and bring about liturgical unity in the Church.
The defiant gathering in Kochi, which was called a ‘Viswasa Samrakshana Maha Sangamam’ that loosely, translates as a gathering to protect the faith, may further escalate the decades-old liturgical dispute.
Several participants at the stadium said they were reminded of the historic pledge by their forefathers in the 17th century, known as the "Oath of the Slanting Cross" refusing to submit to the Jesuits and Latin Catholic hierarchy, thus dividing the Saint Thomas Christians of the Kerala coast. The ancient community is now divided into seven separate churches, one of which is the Syro-Malabar Church.
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Bishops against bishops.
Ad orientum versus ad populum in the same frankenchurch.
They are from different cultures of the same faith. Let them receive Christ worthily however they have been doing worthily.
Worthily is the big word. No “studied ambiguity”. As people come closer to Christ, the priest’s face will become far less valued in my opinion.
Same here....worthily...not minimally worthily, studied ambiguity, but Worthily.
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