The 76-year-old from Guinea wrote a book on the priesthood, celibacy, and the crisis of the Catholic Church, “From the Depths of Our Hearts,” in 2020. Sarah ended a more than six-year term as prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments in February. It is us, bishops, that he will hold accountable: how did you manage your diocese, how did you love your priests, how did you accompany them spiritually?” “God will not ask accounts of an episcopal conference, of a synod. Structures “are also often a danger, because we take refuge behind them,“ he said. It is Christ who is our peace, who will create more fraternal human relations, of collaboration, of cooperation.” “If hearts are not changed by the Gospel, politics will not change, the economy will not change, human relationships will not change. “If priests, if society look to God, then I think things will change,” he told Famille Chrétienne. Sacrosanctum Concilium is Vatican II’s document on Catholic liturgy and was the first document discussed and approved at the Council in December 1963.The book, currently available only in French, includes passages from saints and the Church Fathers to encourage meditation on the renewal of the priesthood, which, according to the cardinal, is a necessary step on the way to resolving the crisis in the Catholic Church. “It’s a delicate work that requires patience and prayers, so that we have a more faithful implementation of Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium,” he said. “In April 2015, the Holy Father asked me to study the question of the ‘reform of the reform,’ looking at how the two forms can enrich one another.” “We can’t dismiss the possibility or desirability of an official reform of the liturgical reform,” said Cardinal Sarah. “And so, dear fathers, I ask you to implement this practice whenever possible, with prudence and the necessary catechesis and pastoral competence, knowing that this is something good for the Church and the people of God.ĭuring his speech, Cardinal Sarah also revealed that Pope Francis has commissioned him to make a study of the question of how the two forms of the Roman rite of Mass - the extraordinary form, which predates the Second Vatican Council and is commonly known as the Tridentine Mass or Traditional Latin Mass, and the ordinary form ( novus ordo), introduced by Blessed Paul VI in 1969 - can “mutually enrich one another.” Indeed, I think that it is a very important step, to make sure God is truly at the center of our celebration. The cardinal continued: “This practice is permitted by current liturgical legislation. They also cite the antiquity of the practice, which goes back to the first centuries of the Church and is still practiced in traditional Catholic parishes and religious orders. The east has significance as the place where the sun rises, symbolizing the resurrection of Christ and his second coming.Īdvocates say it better focuses the priest and congregation on worshipping God together, rather than creating an inward-looking community feel. Ad orientem worship involves the priest and congregation facing the same direction, the liturgical “east,” rather than priest and congregation facing each other ( versus populum) during Mass.
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