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Here are some excerpts from this enlightening interview:
We grew
up with that Mass—of St. Pius V—we loved it, we loved to
serve the Mass, it inspired very much our vocations, why
now should we not continue to appreciate deeply and love
that rite…
What
Pope Benedict XVI has said repeatedly is so true: that the
beauty, the goodness of the rite, has to be as appreciated
by us today as it has been in the past, right going back
practically to the time of Pope Gregory the Great. And in
that way, it will enrich the worship, perfect the worship
of the whole Church…
I
suppose that the principle of the result of the abuse was
a too anthropocentric idea of the sacred liturgy, as if it
were something that we had invented and therefore with
which we could experiment instead of being a gift given by
Our Lord to the Church which we must prized and treasure
and safeguard. We need to recover that sense that this is
the action of Christ; that it’s Christ Who is the
protagonist for instance in the celebration of Holy Mass,
not me as a person, but the priest in his personality, but
Christ Himself. It is my great hope that the… [reform of
the Mass] will underline the transcendent nature of the
sacred liturgy as Pope Benedict often says: “the
meeting of Heaven and Earth”.
There is little doubt as to the religious faith and
sincerity of his discourse as Cardinal Burke is perhaps more
able to speak his mind, far away from the peer pressure of
American lobbies. He shows himself the servant of the pope,
but this is not to say that he is a servile Roman subject as
he already initiated the “traditionalization” of his diocese
in the 1990’s. It is wonderful to see the confession of the
humanistic bent inherent to the new rite.
This being said, a few items are worth our observation
here. His diplomatic answers about the use of “for many”
as the still official text, and of the discontinuing of
“Communion in the hand” in Rome, suggest that the new
liturgical movement of Benedict XVI is determined to act
more by suggestion than by governmental legislation.
[See
below for some recent examples attempting to stem the abuse]
What is still for us difficult to understand, and remains
unsolved by the Cardinal, is his wish to reconcile the two
rituals of the Mass. For this, he is advocating for the
papal “Reform of the Reform”, and for the rejection of the “hermeneutic
of [ritual] discontinuity” between the Novus
Ordo and the Tridentine Mass.
How interesting it is to see that a man who understands the
“anthropocentric” core of the new liturgy, in
flagrant opposition to the awe inspiring old rite, still
believes in the peaceful the cohabitation of such
incompatible partners? |
