{"id":43280,"date":"2018-09-26T14:46:09","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=43280"},"modified":"2018-09-30T16:37:18","modified_gmt":"2018-09-30T21:37:18","slug":"paul-vi-on-liturgical-reform-part-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/26\/paul-vi-on-liturgical-reform-part-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul VI on liturgical reform Part 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>In view of the canonization of Pope Paul VI, the pope of liturgical reform, in October,\u00a0<\/em>Pray Tell<em>\u00a0is occasionally\u00a0 publishing some of his most significant statements on liturgical reform. <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/06\/paul-vi-on-liturgical-reform-part-6\/\">The last excerpt<\/a> addressed those who did not entirely accept the church\u2019s reforms. This excerpt from the same address is directed at those who went beyond the reforms arbitrarily and in unapproved ways.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>At the other extreme are those who &#8211; proposing just the opposite teaching, but giving us equal cause for grief &#8211; falsely regard themselves as taking the road opened by the Council. Moved by their own one-sided opinions, which in some cases seem beyond hope of correction, they are fiercely engaged in passing judgment on the Church and its institutions.<\/p>\n<p>With equal firmness, therefore, we must repudiate the course of action taken by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Those who decide that they have the right to create a liturgy of their own, at times reducing the sacrifice of the Mass and the sacraments to a celebration of life or their own struggles and to the status of a symbol of their own spirit of community; or practice outlawed forms of intercommunion. &#8230;<\/li>\n<li><em>[Those who water down Catholic doctrine; those who show outright scorn for the tradition of the Church including the Fathers and the magisterium]&#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Those who make light of the proper office of the priestly ministry.<\/li>\n<li><em>[Those who reduced Christianity to political action] &#8230;<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Christians of this stripe are surely not very numerous, but they are very noisy, since they foolishly believe that they are the interpreters of the needs of the whole Christian people or of the irreversible course of history. 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