Thursday, September 13, 2007

"A new agenda??"

"For the good Cardinal?"

"Wow! ¡Guau!"

First source:writer Jordan McMorrough's article in Today's Catholic, August 31, 2007, "New hall a symbol of increased vocations," www.satodayscatholic.org .

On the front page a colored photo bears this caption, regarding what was going on that day 120 miles northeast of Brakcettville, Texas:

"Archbishop José H. Gomez looks on as Cardinal Francis E. George, OMI, of Chicago and Archbishop Emeritus Patrick F. Flores bless the St. Thomas the Apostle Chapel in the newly dedicated Archbishop Patrick F. Flores Residence Hall at Assumption Seminary on Aug. 15."

Regarding Francis Cardinal George himself, we read this within the article:

"The cardinal serves on the Vatican's Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments .

"He is also vice president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and is a member of the USCCB Comittee on the Liturgy."

O.K., so far? Well, then, let's just drop back about a year and a half, to February, 2006......

Second source: Rev. Greg J. Markey's article "Cardinal George and Liturgical Reform," in the February 2006 edition of the Homiletic & Pastoral Review.

The author comments that a number of Catholic experts are writing articles and studies healthily critical of the so - called liturgical reform of the Catholic Mass dating back to the 1960s and the Council of Vatican II.

As Father Markey says towards the end of his excellent commenatry:

"Now that forty years have passed since the Council, Cardinal George and others are giving these healthy critiques which would not have been possible at the time of the Council.

Verbal monologues vs. symbolic gestures and silence...

"He notes that many studies are now recognizing the roots of 20th Century liturgical reforms lie in the Enlightenment:a liturgical rationalism which emphasized verbal monologues rather than symbolic gestures and silence, thereby demystifying the rite of its visual splendor..."

Good for you, Reverend!

And with the Enlightenment serving as a sort of fairy godmother all these past 40 years, no wonder we are in the mess we are in.....

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