Saturday, March 14, 2009

Is Itching Bad For Thrush

talk about us in "Il Foglio" on March 12

are many who hope that the motu proprio is finally dead, and there are many in the church world, to make himself to do because this is done. Strange, because a simple analysis will reveal the fact that I find evident in my educational experience is not only the world had lost to Christ, but, as he said even don Giussani, are several men of the Church, perhaps even earlier, to abandoning him. A faith that is tasteless, or too human, just in its most visible expression, ritual, loses faithful: is mathematical. But despite the opposition to the old rite, and more generally to its spirit, is strong and rooted in the environments that matter, the signs of a change, especially among the young and the new clergy, are obvious. The publisher is the only Faith & Culture, to my knowledge, I have a bet with confidence in the revival of the traditional mass. In a few months he has published various titles in addition to the pamphlet signed "The traditional liturgy," "The old Mass" by Fr Francis Cupello, "The Mass is not over," Mario PDAs and Alessandro Gnocchi, the "full missal" and, finally, "Introibo altar to the Gods'. It is the latter, a beautiful hand by three young, Elvis Cuneo, Daniel and Raymond Sorce Mameli, where the" old "Mass is explained step by step in its entirety, from symbolism to gesture. A work indispensable today for those who want to approach the old rite as suggested by Benedict XVI, that is Recalling that "the liturgical proprium is not derived from what we do but because it happens." All these books editor Faith & Culture did not remain in storage, as one might have thought, and even wealth of a few scholars and curious: they have had and are having an incredible spread. Among the readers too many priests estimate that the new rite, but wish at the same time, a recovery of a proper way to celebrate it, as it did for example, the late Don Divo Barsotti.
(by Francis Agnoli, article in The Gazette of March 12, 2009)