“It seemed to me that timing the launch of the Year of Faith
to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican
Council would provide a good opportunity
to help people understand that the texts bequeathed by the Council Fathers,
in the words of Blessed John Paul II, “have lost nothing of their value or brilliance. They need to
be read correctly, to be widely known and taken to heart as important and
normative texts of the Magisterium, within
the Church's Tradition ... I feel more than ever in duty bound to point
to the Council as the great grace bestowed on
the Church in the twentieth century: there we find a
sure compass by which to take our bearings in the century now beginning.” I would also like to emphasize
strongly what I had occasion to say concerning the Council a few months after
my election as Successor of Peter: “if we interpret and implement it guided
by a right hermeneutic, it can be and can become increasingly powerful for
the ever necessary renewal of the Church.” (Benedict XVI, Porta Fidei, 5)
Inasmuch as the constant invocation of the “spirit of Vatican
II” to justify liturgical innovations has caused much confusion among the
faithful, we should take advantage of the Year of Faith to read the actual text
of the Constitution on Sacred Liturgy (Sacrosanctum
Concilium). I think we have had enough of so-called liturgical experts
(technocrats) who legitimize their “creativity” by hiding behind the authority
of Vatican II. If it is true that their innovations were mandated by Vatican
II, they should support their argument with the actual text of Sacrosanctum Concilium. I might sound like
a fundamentalist but I think it is about time that we question these experts:
Where in the documents of Vatican II did the Church say that you could do what
you tell us to do? It is about time that we stop accepting this barrage of
liturgical innovations and begin questioning these “experts.” Let us empower
ourselves. Read the actual text of Vatican II.
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