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Some excellent words, but again it is like a "teaser" for so many... like saying "yes, we know that everything is not going like you would like, but just wait, just wait, you'll see...". This kind of promise of action may cause more anxiety than it calms! I guess we have to just keep hoping...
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The good thing about it is that Mgr Ganswein would not be saying anything unless he was confident that his words reflect the will of the Holy Father.
While things aren't moving as fast as some would like, there is a definite sea-change from Rome and the utterings of Mgr Ganswein as well as those of Archbishop Ranjith and Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos are all good signs of things to come - albeit at a slower, more controlled pace, than perhaps we would like.
Thank God for Pope Benedict and his worthy lieutenants.
My favourite bit: "Er sieht sich die Dinge an und agiert sanft, aber entschieden." He has a good look at the situation, then acts, gently, but firmly." Beautiful!
"While things aren't moving as fast as some would like"
Indeed. I sometimes wonder if the Holy Father knows he turned 81 and not 61 in April?
Belloc - I don't think that cynicism helps.
The Holy Father is a realist - not only in terms of what he can do at his age, but also in what he can 'get through' the bishops and others.
If we truly believe the Holy Spirit (and I do) appointed him, then I think we can trust the Holy Father and the Holy Spirit to do what needs to be done, in ways and timescales that will be most effective.
Belloc,
If you have followed this blog faithfully you will note a sea change over the past few years. I could never have imagined seminaries like Kenrick Glennon offering the EF and requiring its seminarians to learn the old Rite.
Keep the Faith!
Tom
Tom,
I DO follow the blog faithfully - several times a day, in fact.
And I'm not a cynic. I'm delighted in what the Holy Father's doing. Every last speck it. But if I wore the red shoes I'm afraid I wouldn't have waited three days let alone three years to ditch Piero Marini, for instance. The urgencies of biology are simply too steep for my tastes.
Then again, I'm not the Holy Father, am I?
I'm beginning to think some of us have lost all sense of historical perspective. It is simply not true that the liturgy in 99.9% of the parishes has been unaffected by Pope Benedict's initiatives. The seeds have been planted in hundreds of places. Parishes in many places have begun to offer TLMs, Novus Ordo Masses with Latin and chant, and Latin chants in the vernacular celebrations. Moreover, at influential Catholic universities such as the University of Notre Dame there is a weekly TLM and there is a substantial amount of Gregorian chant and polyphony at Masses in the Basilica, all of which would have been unthinkable a few short years ago. But cling to your defeatist attitude if that consoles you. I, for one, someone who has actually lived through the liturgical wars in the 1960s, am ecstatic. I never believed I would see the day when Catholics would begin the process of recovering its sacred liturgical and musical tradition. I also know that when I die there will be a priest who can do the traditional Latin Requiem. I would never have believed that in the 1970s, 1980s or early 1990s. Deo Gratias! Tom
I for one think its great that the Pope looks and acts more like 61 then 81!!!
The Pope is doing so very much to make those of us working in the trenches have a bit more direction. He has given us tools but its up to us clergy, musicians and people in the pew to affect change in the local level.
Rather then whine about what the pope is or isnt doing, lets pick up the tools he placed at our feet and actually DO something to make our corner of the ecclesiastical world a bit more authentic.
Then perhaps Belloc, and with all due respect, there is a reason you do not wear the red shoes... or me for that matter.
i pray we have His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI for MANY years, but I also pray he has considered a worthy successor should anything were to happen to him, who is like minded in continuing the reform of the reform.
Being a Catholic is also about being human. I quite understand Belloc: he is only stating a simple, self-evident fact.
I for one would indeed say that the Holy Fatherīs intention is unknown to 99% of Catholics. And this is historically very odd.
Mind you, in previous ages, the Pope was thought to wish only to preserve Tradition... Of course, knowing his mind, then, was not very difficult.
For our oly religion is not built on the whims of Popes, but on divine unchanging Revelation and on sacred Tradition. And yet... When Catholics are utterly uninterested in Tradition (and this, I belive is the case)... even when the Pope keeps speaking of it...
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