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To: Domestic Church
How untraditional an analysis...the Church knows what belongs to the substance of the liturgy and never wavers from it.

Council of Trent on the Mass and the "Substance of" Tradition

"The Holy Council declares moreover: The Church has always had, in the dispensation of the sacraments, their substance being saved, the power to decide or to modify what she judges better to suit the spiritual utility of those who receive them or with respect to the sacraments themselves, according to the variety of circumstances, times and places.--- The Council of Trent, Dz 1728; also Dz Herder ed, 1955, #931, p. 256"

The whole Catholic world accepts the eucharist as the eucharist in the new missal. Only less than 1% of all Catholics constantly cavil against it. They simplistically blame the liturgy for the decadent times which more than accounts for people turning away from religion (Lk 18:8)

64 posted on 04/07/2003 5:49:03 PM PDT by PaxChristi
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To: PaxChristi
Nothing protects the Church from making poor prudential decisions, including adopting a liturgy that can be misleading and insufficiently clear about the sacramental doctrines. Of course, a pope has the authority to make such decisions, but we as layity have every right to critique them.

If you think that 99% of Catholics believe the eucharistic doctrines, you are in denial.

66 posted on 04/07/2003 5:55:14 PM PDT by traditionalist
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To: PaxChristi
You assume too much. I accept the Eucharist as the Eucharist and have never said I didn't.
67 posted on 04/07/2003 6:01:11 PM PDT by Domestic Church (AMDG...)
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