Category: Quotes
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: Restoring Dignity, Beauty, Simplicity and Good Taste
“Remember, if the faithful sing they do not leave the Church; if they do not leave the Church, they keep the faith and live as Christians.”
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: The Sublime Reality
“Look at the altar, placed now for dialogue with the assembly; consider the remarkable sacrifice of Latin, the priceless repository of the Church’s treasure.”
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: Our Foremost Concern
“Accordingly, our foremost concern is clearly that the faithful, and especially priests, dedicate themselves first of all to the study of the Constitution on the Liturgy and from this moment on prepare themselves to carry out its prescriptions wholeheartedly as soon as these take effect.”
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Pope Paul VI on Liturgical Reform: The Difficult, Complex Debates
“The first achievement of the Council must be treasured as something that will quicken and put its imprint on the life of the Church.”
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Cardinal Marx: “A Church that has an answer to everything is not credible.”
The truth of the faith is “not simply a system that we defend, but rather, the person of Jesus Christ whom we encounter,” the cardinal said.
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXII
“There are some things which are not in accordance with concrete reality. … Give expression to what is real from the pastoral point of view.”
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What I’m Reading Wednesday: Caryll Houselander
Caryll Houselander was a British Catholic living in the first half of the twentieth century who did most of her writing during the Second World War. She was a mystic of the mundane, a painfully sensitive woman with an unexpected shot of earthy humor, who was given a deep insight into the unity of the…
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Bishop Fellay Sings a New Church into Being
Has the SSPX left the building?
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Pray Tell visits with Timothy Radcliffe, OP
“Pope Benedict’s emphasis on beauty in liturgy was wonderful and to be welcomed. It is true that the return of some forms of vestment, the red shoes, and some curious hats did put people off! They certainly did not turn me on!”