Abp.Ranjith Interview in L’Osservatore Romano on Liturgy

Fr. Z has posted an interview from the 19-20 November Italian edition of L’Osservatore Romano.. He has translated part of it as it concerns Summorum Pontificum. He says:

The causa movens is the 60th anniversary of Pius XII’s great liturgical encyclical Mediator Dei. Now that Pope Benedict has issued Summorum Pontificum, people are revisiting the Council and the Council’s roots.

Here is a representative excerpt in my translation:

Q: After the publication of the Motu Proprio Summorum Pontificum there ignited again confrontation between the so-called traditionalists and innovators. Does a contrast of this sort between the two make any sense?

Absolutely not. There wasn’t and there isn’t a break between a before and an after, there is rather a continuous line.

Speaking of the Motu Proprio let’s go back instead to a topic just examined. There was over time, slowly but surely better organized, a growing demand for the Tridentine Mass. On the other side, fidelity to the norms for celebration of the sacraments continued to decline. The more that fidelity diminished, the sense of beauty and awe in the liturgy, the more there grew requests for the Tridentine Mass. So then, really, who really was asking for the Tridentine Mass? Not only whose groups, but also those who had been shown little respect for the norms for worthy celebration according to the Novus Ordo. For years the liturgy has endured too many abuses and many bishops ignored them. Pope John Paul II had made a sorrowful appeal in...[continued]...

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