Tag: Robert Taft
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REPOST: Interviewing Liturgical Leaders: Robert Taft, S.J.
“The liturgy doesn’t need fixing. For starters it just needs a translation into something remotely resembling English. What needs fixing are the celebrating clergy.” – Robert Taft, 2014
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This Week’s Discussion Question: Stability and Flexibility
What is the greater danger today to the Church’s liturgical life? Is it disregard of the books, imposition of private agendas, and loss of a common ritual vocabulary? Or is it Pharasaic legalism, idolatrous divinizing of merely human social constructions?
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Infants sharing in the Lord’s table
And the true ancient tradition of the whole Catholic Church is to give Communion to infants. Present Latin usage is a medieval innovation.
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Must there be organic continuity in liturgical reform?
Some say: there can be no disruption in the liturgical life of the church, no “before” and “after” the Council. Liturgies and rituals evolve slowly, like living organisms. Is this truly the case?