Cardinal Raymond Burke, former prefect of the Apostolic Signatura, posted a statement on his own website, reported in the National Catholic Register by Edward Pentin, to deplore the new directives on Masses in St. Peter's.
For Cardinal Burke and other canonists and priests contacted by the Register, the most serious element of the letter concerns its imposition of concelebration upon priests who wish to offer Mass in the basilica — a change, they say, that pertains not only to the basilica but the universal Church, as St. Peter’s is the spiritual home for all Catholics and, they say, should be a model of liturgical discipline.
The letter, Cardinal Burke wrote in a statement to be published on his website, is “contrary to universal Church law” as it “unjustly conditions the primary duty of the individual priest to offer the Holy Mass daily for the salvation of the world.” More specifically, he and other canonists say it is in breach of both Canon 902 and Article 57 § 2 of Sacrosanctum Concilium.
A serious question to be raised in relation to this new directive is the appropriateness of concelebration. I think those of us who experienced only the Novus Ordo (I converted in 1979) take concelebration for granted.
Maybe it's time to resist this assumption.
https://wdtprs.com/2020/12/about-that-demon-cult-bowl-placed-on-st-peters-altar-wheres-the-damned-bowl-now/
ReplyDeleteThe recent news reminded me that "the High Altar of St. Peter’s – the Papal Altar, which is situated right on top of the tomb of St. Peter himself – has been left unused now for many months."
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