Posted on 05/07/2022 6:39:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
‘I emphasize again that the liturgical life, and the study of it, should lead to greater Church unity, not division. When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of division, there is the stench of the devil in there, the deceiver,’ the Holy Father said April 7.
Pope Francis said Saturday that the liturgy should not be “a battleground” for “outdated issues.”
“I emphasize again that the liturgical life, and the study of it, should lead to greater Church unity, not division. When the liturgical life is a bit like a banner of division, there is the stench of the devil in there, the deceiver,” Pope Francis said at the Vatican on April 7.
“It’s not possible to worship God while making the liturgy a battleground for issues that are not essential, indeed, outdated issues, and to take sides, starting with the liturgy, with ideologies that divide the Church.”
Speaking at an audience with the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in the apostolic palace, the Pope said that he believes that “every reform creates resistance.”
Pope Francis recalled reforms made when he was a child by Pope Pius XII, particularly when Pius XII reduced the fasting requirement before receiving Holy Communion and reintroduced the Easter vigil.
“All of these things scandalized closed-minded people. It happens also today,” he said.
“Indeed, such closed-minded people use liturgical frameworks to defend their views. Using the liturgy: This is the drama we are experiencing in ecclesial groups that are distancing themselves from the Church, questioning the Council, the authority of the bishops ... in order to preserve tradition. And the liturgy is used for that.”
Pope Francis spoke to the Pontifical Liturgical Institute, an institute in Rome whose school of liturgy has had increasing influence in liturgical norms coming from the Vatican.
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Pope Marx needs to resign.
Who’s making it battleground? Who’s attacking whom? He seems to be rather unclear on that whole concept (cf. his comments about NATO).
OK George, I agree with this. So why are you waging war against the traditional liturgy?
Every time I turn around he broadcasts a total lack of self awareness. Maybe he should stop bashing the sheep.
And who did that, Frank?
He’s the one who made it a battleground.
Pope Francis said Saturday that the liturgy should not be “a battleground” for “outdated issues.”
Using the Pope’s argument, the Council of Nicea had to be a failure.
Typical pinko tactic. Attack something, then blame people for defending it.
We see it ALL THE TIME.
Word salad from the atheist pope.
Translation: it’s a sin to criticize Francis.
“Pope Francis” is the fake name of Bergoglio who is pretending be a pope and everyone knows he is pretending, just like Biden. Yes, the Tridentine Mass builds the church and the US Constitution builds the world.
The Pope is a Marxist. View all he says with this fact and all he says makes sense as he is a Marxist. I wonder if he is a Christian. Of his Christianity I do not know, he probably is but his Marxism is greater than his Christianity.
Is Ukraine/Russia an Orthodox or Catholic war?
Holy Father, ask yourself who changed the status quo?
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