Posted on 08/31/2025 1:08:10 PM PDT by ebb tide
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, USA, spoke with Rev. Javier Olivera Ravasi on YouTube about the crisis of the Church and liturgy. Main points.
- A sin is a sin because it goes against our human good, not because God or clergymen have made a list of acts.
- The problem with the 'new Mass' is that if it is new today, it will be old tomorrow, and thus become a thing of the past.
- Young people today see how the Novus Ordo is celebrated in many parishes and view it as something from the past, but they are looking for lasting value.
- The idea of 'before and after' causes serious harm to the life of the Church. There is no 'before' or 'after'. There is a line of continuity.
- The connection with our ancestors in the faith touches the soul and, at the same time, speaks to us today.
- In the classical Mass, all the actions were definitive and precise. There was no room for adaptation.
- The few priests who speak Latin are not going to abuse it. It is easy to change the liturgy in the vernacular. More discipline is needed to celebrate Mass according to the current rite.
- The first form of catechesis is how Mass is celebrated. This is how our people are formed in the faith.
- If the liturgy were celebrated according to Vatican II and all the documents on the liturgy, it would be very different to what we often see, such as rock 'n' roll Masses. This is what the Church asks of us: Gregorian chant and Latin.
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