Friday, April 25, 2014

Cardinal Ratzinger on the Novus Ordo Missae

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Ratzinger celebrating the Tridentine Mass in Wigratzbad, Germany in 1990.
The liturgical reform, in its concrete realization, has distanced itself even more from its origin. The result has not been a reanimation, but devastation. In place of the liturgy, fruit of a continual development, they have placed a fabricated liturgy. They have deserted a vital process of growth and becoming in order to substitute a fabrication.They did not want to continue the development, the organic maturing of something living through the centuries, and they replaced it, in the manner of technical production, by a fabrication, a banal product of the moment.

(Revue Theologisches, Vol. 20, Feb. 1990, pp. 103-104)

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