Posted on 09/05/2024 1:36:08 PM PDT by ebb tide
Monsignor Marian Eleganti, former Auxiliary Bishop of Chur in Switzerland, gave an interview on August 14 to Kath.ch, the media portal of the Swiss bishops. Key points.
- "I am very critical of the synod process. I see the danger that certain, already established agendas will determine it and control it from the beginning. This is not true listening."
- "I believe that in such processes, the editors who formulate the final documents are the decisive factor - not necessarily the Holy Spirit."
- "Today, the so-called 'reality of life' is used as another 'source of revelation'."
- "Although Pope Francis has written synodality on his banner, he has a very authoritarian style of leadership."
- "He intervenes in the synodal process and directs it, for example by removing important issues from the plenary assembly and delegating them to commissions that work autonomously."
- "Many see the Pope's actions as self-contradictory."
- "As an altar boy, I was introduced to the Tridentine Mass and after the Council I was retrained in the Novus Ordo. In this respect, the old rite is not alien to me. As a boy, I learned all the prayers in Latin and was always nervous so that I wouldn't make a mistake. I celebrate Holy Mass in the Novus Ordo."
- "The Priestly Fraternity of St Peter (FSSP) approached me. Father Martin Ramm from Thalwil, whom I respect very much, was looking for a bishop for administering Confirmations in the Old Rite. I have learned this rite anew. That's why more requests are now coming in. Why should I refuse them?"
- "The Tridentine liturgy is not a workshop and expresses much more the centrality of God and Jesus Christ. It has very deep prayers that I really enjoy praying in terms of content. I love the accompanying prayers that the priest prays."
- "I don't understand why the prayers have been abandoned in the liturgical reform, because they help the priest to tune into this mystery and to enter into it and to celebrate it."
Ping
My mother, a convert to Catholicism, often said that if your needed entertainment to get people to church their being there didn’t amount to much. In my opinion the post Vatican II liturgies with banging drums, thumping guitars and rattling tambourines might have entertained but didn’t deliver deep contemplative worship.
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