Tag: Yves Congar OP
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Real Preaching Part III: Facilitating Transformation
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — Effective preachers respect the intelligence, maturity, and saintliness of the listeners.
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Real Preaching Part II: Evoking Incongruence
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — For each unloving act a worshipper may have notched up, the liturgy of the Word repeatedly throws out the command “to love.”
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Real Preaching Part I: Liturgy is Transformative
WAYNE A. CAVALIER — Liturgy, Congar insists, is not mere ritual for ritual’s sake.
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXV – Conclusion of Series
The public session concluded, before the final Te Deum, with a liturgy of penance imploring God’s forgiveness for the sins committed during the Council, and because of it. I left slowly and with difficulty, barely able to stand. A great many bishops congratulated me, thanked me. To a good extent, it was my work, they…
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Paul Philibert (and Yves Congar) on the Center, the Periphery, and Missal Translation
“The contrast between the broad vision of the council and the Vatican’s recent micromanagement of liturgical texts is stark.” – Fr. Paul Philibert
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXIV
Mass, DURING WHICH a choir sang chants in honor of the Blessed Sacrament. Why the blazes can’t we just have a Mass that is a Mass! The Constitution on the Liturgy is already a dead letter for many!
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXIII
Dinner at a restaurant in the Piazza Navona, in the open air. We saw normal people again, to whom our byzantine intrigues would have absolutely NOTHING to say!
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXII
From different sides I hear echoes of disappointment among the laity AND AMONG PRIESTS. The reform of the liturgy is insufficient (‘Is that all?’). The story of the Motu proprio has caused disturbance and disquiet. Some are driven to despondency and to lose interest.
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Yves Congar, My Journal of the Council, Part XXXI
[The proposed motu proprio] lays down that texts for use in the vernacular must first be submitted to the Holy See, and approved by it. This is the very negation of the worth of the Council.