tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959521002954863236.post2744330599386100372..comments2024-02-12T02:17:25.012-08:00Comments on Lex orandi, lex credendi: On the Importance of Preachingbenedictgalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04918740294439486623noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959521002954863236.post-23605067035066374672010-12-19T18:34:47.299-08:002010-12-19T18:34:47.299-08:00I wouldn't be comfortable preaching as a semin...I wouldn't be comfortable preaching as a seminarian (I am one), outside of Mass, I wouldn't mind practicing, that's what homeletic classes are for.<br /><br />Btw, I've added you to my blog roll.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3959521002954863236.post-79765850101397486492010-12-11T22:00:03.352-08:002010-12-11T22:00:03.352-08:00I posted some comments about this on facebook, and...I posted some comments about this on facebook, and one of my FB friends asked the proverbial question, "what would Jesus do?" I replied that Jesus, when he saw liturgical abuse at the temple, he wasted no time taking out the whips and the cords. She accused me of acting "holier than thou" and of damaging the congregation.<br /><br />Sadly, I think that the congregation was the one that was damaged by this particular well-meaning, but, ilicit act. Here is what Redemptionis Sacramentum states about liturgical abuse:<br /><br /> "The Mystery of the Eucharist "is too great for anyone to permit himself to treat it according to his own whim, so that its sacredness and its universal ordering would be obscured".27 On the contrary, anyone who acts thus by giving free rein to his own inclinations, even if he is a Priest, injures the substantial unity of the Roman Rite, which ought to be vigorously preserved,28 and becomes responsible for actions that are in no way consistent with the hunger and thirst for the living God that is experienced by the people today. Nor do such actions serve authentic pastoral care or proper liturgical renewal; instead, they deprive Christ's faithful of their patrimony and their heritage. For arbitrary actions are not conducive to true renewal,29 but are detrimental to the right of Christ's faithful to a liturgical celebration that is an expression of the Church's life in accordance with her tradition and discipline. In the end, they introduce elements of distortion and disharmony into the very celebration of the Eucharist, which is oriented in its own lofty way and by its very nature to signifying and wondrously bringing about the communion of divine life and the unity of the People of God.30 The result is uncertainty in matters of doctrine, perplexity and scandal on the part of the People of God, and, almost as a necessary consequence, vigorous opposition, all of which greatly confuse and sadden many of Christ's faithful in this age of ours when Christian life is often particularly difficult on account of the inroads of "secularization" as well.31<br />--<br /><br />It is sad that the abuse is vehemently defended, while the one pointing out the problem tends to be villified.benedictgalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04918740294439486623noreply@blogger.com