{"id":59331,"date":"2022-02-20T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-20T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59331"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:09:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:09:25","slug":"if-we-give-scandal-by-our-liturgical-disputes-we-play-the-game-of-the-master-of-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/if-we-give-scandal-by-our-liturgical-disputes-we-play-the-game-of-the-master-of-division\/","title":{"rendered":"If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes \u2026 we play the game of the master of division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.orientchurch.va\/images\/CCO_CONVEGNO_LITURGICO_2022.pdf\">Liturgical Congress<\/a> to mark the 25<sup>th<\/sup> Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions within the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches<\/p>\n<p>In his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cruxnow.com\/vatican\/2022\/02\/eastern-catholic-leaders-meet-to-discuss-importance-of-liturgical-identity\">opening remarks<\/a>, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, encouraged participants \u201cto avoid solitary escapes in pursuit of reforms that do not take into account the heritage shared with the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox churches.\u201d This encouragement to promote the Eastern Churches to use a common liturgical rite with the Orthodox and Eastern Orthodox Churches seems to be a constant theme in recent Roman thought on Eastern liturgies.<\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis gave an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vatican.va\/content\/francesco\/en\/speeches\/2022\/february\/documents\/20220218-plenaria-chiese-orientali.html\">audience<\/a> to the members of the Congress on Friday 18 February.\u00a0 Here the Pope made some remarks on Eastern liturgy. Some of these might be of interest to PrayTell readers. The Pope informed his listeners that \u201cMystagogical catechesis is lacking in the Latin Church.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A little further on he continued stating that \u201cthe beauty of the Eastern rites is much more that simply an oasis of escape or of conservation.\u00a0 The liturgical assembly recognizes itself as such, not because it was called together of its own accord, but because it hears the voice of Another, is constantly turned towards him, and, precisely for this reason, feels the urgent need to go forth towards our brothers and sisters, and to bring them the message of Christ. Even those traditions that preserve the use of the iconostasis, with the royal door, or the veil that conceals the sanctuary at some moments in the rite, teach us that these are architectural or ritual elements that speak not of distance from God, but rather heighten the mystery of the \u2018condescension\u2019 \u2013 of the <em>synkatabasis<\/em> &#8211; by which the Word came and continues to come to the world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, the Holy Father concluded his remarks reminding the Eastern liturgists that, \u201cfidelity to uniqueness is what creates the \u2018symphonic\u2019 richness of the Eastern Churches. One can discuss, for example, the possibility of introducing editions of the liturgy in the languages of the countries where their faithful are found, but where the form of the celebration is concerned, it is necessary that unity be experienced in accordance with what has been laid down by the Synods and approved by the Apostolic See, avoiding liturgical particularisms that in reality manifest divisions of another kind within the respective Churches. Furthermore, let us not forget that our brothers and sisters of the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches are watching us: even if we cannot sit at the same Eucharistic table, nonetheless we almost always celebrate and pray the same liturgical texts. Let us be attentive therefore to forms of experimentation that can harm the journey towards visible unity of all Christ\u2019s disciples. The world needs the witness of our communion. If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes, and unfortunately there have been some recently, we play the game of the master of division.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Image courtesy of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Eastern_Catholic_bishops_Canonization_John_XXIII_John_Paul_II_(14033884551).jpg\">Wikimedia Commons<\/a> \u2013 Eastern Catholic bishops at the Canonization of Saint John Paul II and Saint John XXIII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a Liturgical Congress to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions within the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches In his opening remarks, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, encouraged participants \u201cto avoid solitary escapes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":59332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3119,43,2224],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-plaza-new-ws","category-eastern-liturgy","category-pope-francis"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes \u2026 we play the game of the master of division - Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/if-we-give-scandal-by-our-liturgical-disputes-we-play-the-game-of-the-master-of-division\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"If we give scandal by our liturgical disputes \u2026 we play the game of the master of division - Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week the Congregation for Eastern Churches hosted a Liturgical Congress to mark the 25th Anniversary of the Instruction for the Application of the Liturgical Prescriptions within the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches In his opening remarks, Cardinal Leonardo Sandri, prefect of the Congregation for Eastern Churches, encouraged participants \u201cto avoid solitary escapes [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/20\/if-we-give-scandal-by-our-liturgical-disputes-we-play-the-game-of-the-master-of-division\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Home\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-02-20T15:00:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-02-24T18:09:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Eastern_Catholic_bishops_Canonization_John_XXIII_John_Paul_II_14033884551.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"427\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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He has studied at Seton Hall University (BA, MDiv), the University of Notre Dame (MA), and St Vladimir\u2019s Orthodox Theological Seminary (MTh). He holds a Doctorate in Theology (Ph.D.) from St Patrick\u2019s College, Maynooth and is in the process of completing a second doctorate (D.D) in the Pontifical Facultad de Teolog\u00eda Redemptoris Mater in Callao, Peru. Neil has published a translation of the Confessio of St. Patrick: St. Patrick: His Confession and Other Works (Totowa, NJ, 2009), as well editing the third edition of Fredrick Edward Warren\u2019s The Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (Piscataway, NJ, 2010). In 2011 the University of Notre Dame Press published The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland an adaptation of his doctoral thesis and in 2017 the Alcuin Club published his Liturgical Orientation: The Position of the President at the Eucharist. His articles have appeared in The Irish Theological Quarterly, New Blackfriars, The Furrow and Antiphon. He writes a monthly article on some aspect of the theology of Pope Francis in the Messenger of St. Anthony and blogs regularly at PrayTell.","url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/author\/nxodonoghue\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Eastern_Catholic_bishops_Canonization_John_XXIII_John_Paul_II_14033884551.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59331"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59333,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59331\/revisions\/59333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}