{"id":59338,"date":"2022-02-21T12:24:06","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T18:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=59338"},"modified":"2022-02-24T12:09:32","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T18:09:32","slug":"i-we-revisited","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2022\/02\/21\/i-we-revisited\/","title":{"rendered":"I\/We . . . Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA good theologian is always one preposition away from heresy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When I was studying at the University of Notre Dame, this maxim circulated around the liturgical theology department\u2014attributed to Edward Kilmartin, SJ. (I&#8217;ve turned it into something of a personal motto: God is in the prepositions.)<\/p>\n<p>The aphorism came to mind during the recent weeks of furor over the priest in Arizona who altered the baptismal formula \u201cI baptize you\u2026\u201d to \u201cWe baptize you\u2026\u201d It was reported in both the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/02\/14\/us\/pastor-invalid-baptisms-resignation\/index.html\">secular<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncronline.org\/news\/parish\/phoenix-pastor-resigns-after-diocese-learns-he-performed-invalid-baptisms\">religious<\/a> press.<\/p>\n<p>I also couldn\u2019t help but recall a similar I\/We ruckus over the beginning of the Creed (\u201cWe believe in one God\u2026\u201d vs. \u201cI believe in one God\u2026\u201d) that emerged during the revision of the English translation of the Mass a decade-plus ago. \u201cHere we are again.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Both controversies illustrate what lies beneath Fr. Kilmartin\u2019s saying: small words\u2014even single-letter words\u2014like the tongue\/rudder of James 3:4, can steer an entire ship in a new direction.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Baptismal_Font_3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-59341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Baptismal_Font_3-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Baptismal_Font_3-533x400.jpg 533w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Baptismal_Font_3-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Baptismal_Font_3.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In regard to the Arizona baptism situation, I know for sure that many, <strong><em>many<\/em><\/strong> people have been hoping a liturgical musician with a rudimentary background in liturgical theology would weigh in, as sooooooo many (often with rude, not rudimentary, backgrounds) have done, particularly on social media. The spectrum of responses there has been sort of status quo, with the bulk of them clustered around one end or the other.<\/p>\n<p>On one end of the spectrum, Jesus\/God doesn\u2019t care about these things, and this is precisely the sort of legalistic pharisaism that Jesus opposed; it is, of course, the thing that is driving people out the parish doors. This is a viewpoint that has some merit\u2014though if God doesn\u2019t care about this, then exactly where\/when does God begin to care? At the spectrum\u2019s other end we find the insistence that only these words and precisely these words convey valid baptism, because God has entrusted this to the Church (often Matthew 28:19 [or 18\u201319] is referenced); only a return to this strict adherence will refill the pews. Again, this is a viewpoint that has its merits (even if the Matthew passage doesn\u2019t indicate a pronoun).<\/p>\n<p>Back to I\/We baptism and I\/We Creed. On the surface, it may seem that the two I\/We circumstances really have nothing in common other than a coincidental word pairing. It can be offered that in the baptismal situation the issue was a priest not following the ritual text, while the matter of the 2010 translation of the Mass was actually a return to a true following of the [Latin] text. (Scholars have pointed out that the earlier Greek <em>pisteuomen<\/em>\u2014we believe\u2014was later rendered incorrectly in Latin as <em>credo<\/em>\u2014I believe.)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"225\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-59342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo.png 225w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo-48x48.png 48w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Credo-96x96.png 96w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The words I\/We, in my view, lie in the overlap area of a Venn diagram of Christology and ecclesiology, which has implications for both the sacraments and for liturgy.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve been criticized a number of times for saying\/writing that, at the eucharistic liturgy, the gathered baptized assembly acts <em>in persona Christi<\/em>. Usually I\u2019m corrected (anywhere from dismissively to angrily to charitably) by somebody pointing out that the priest\/presider is acting <em>in persona Christi<\/em>. To which I\u2019ll reply <em>\u201cin persona Christi capitis.\u201d<\/em> (A nuance introduced by the Second Vatican Council.) The priest\/presider (a deacon, for example, at a baptism or wedding outside of a eucharistic celebration) stands at the head of the baptized assembly\u2014the Body of Christ gathered in and through the power of the Holy Spirit. So it can be held as a legitimate view that when Christ baptizes, it is the whole Church who does so. It is \u201cwe\u201d who do so.<\/p>\n<p>A continued and deeper conversation about these matters\u2014or a deeper reflection on them\u2014will eventually raise some thorny issues about both Christology and ecclesiology. The Roman rite accepts innumerable people baptized in other Christian traditions as being baptized validly, even from traditions that don\u2019t begin the formula with any pronoun whatsoever. As is often pointed out, this is why we don\u2019t refer to those validly baptized in other denominations as being \u201cconverts,\u201d since they are already Christians, and fully redeemed members of the Body of Christ. Perhaps thornier is the matter of all the invalid Roman rite eucharists celebrated mid-twentieth-century in various prohibited vernaculars. Yet it can be posited that these invalid eucharists are, in part, what led to the authorization of vernaculars later on. (Eugene Walsh, SS, would muse about all the invalid eucharists during those centuries when Greek gave way to Latin as the official liturgical language.)<\/p>\n<p>For those who believe that everything ecclesial is a straight line drawn from Jesus of Nazareth to institutional Roman Catholicism, the point will be made that an individual priest does not have the authority to make the decision to alter the rites; I accept the latter part of this as true. I reject the former as false. The former does not allow for an awareness or acceptance of the way in which doctrine and ritual develop and change, and the various modalities of authority within the Body of Christ, the Church. (I am indebted to the book <a href=\"https:\/\/litpress.org\/Products\/8788\/By-What-Authority-Revised-and-Expanded-Edition\">\u201cBy What Authority?\u201d<\/a> by Richard Gaillardetz for broadening my own understanding of this.)<\/p>\n<p>I truly believe that <a href=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2021\/01\/12\/the-word-became-flesh-so-what\/\">words matter<\/a>. Yes, God is in the prepositions and the pronouns. But we must resist the very human failing to deify them, and mistakenly think that prepositions and pronouns ARE God. (Our era tends to be overly-glib about scriptural warnings concerning idolatry.) Yes, God does care about our rites and how we celebrate them in the ongoing process of revelation. God likewise cares about how we live our lives, and how we treat one another during ritual skirmishes, because they are all part of one doxology, one act of praise. 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