From catholiccollarandtie. Fr. Gary Dickson poses the question; "Liturgical Renewal – is it possible? " The question is also discussed by Fr. Ray Blake and Fr. Z.
We are told a new handbook on how to celebrate Holy Mass will be published this summer. While Redemptionis Sacramentum was dead on arrival, I suspect the proposed handbook will be still-born. The only thing that can resuscitate our liturgy is clear positive legislation backed up by action.
We
have spent fifty years ‘advising and encouraging’ clergy at all levels -from
Cardinals down to associate pastors and deacons- to follow liturgical norms, but
we have had very little success with such exhortations. Why? I think because if
we were to follow even the norms that are in place now for the
Missanormativa of Paul VI, we would have a very different kind of liturgy
than we currently have in most parishes. Some questions we can ask ourselves
about the liturgy in our own parish to see if we are following norms or not are
the following. All of these questions should be responded to with a ‘Yes’
if we are following norms; a negative response means we are not following the
norms (according to the General Instruction and Redemptionis
Sacramentum).
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