Mark Searl, a well-known American liturgist, in one of his books wrote that someone who was theologically formed, or more precisely: accustomed to thinking about liturgy in the first place in terms of sacramental “matter and form,” can approach real rituals from the position of one who “already knows what is significant and what is not,” and who views “the rest, whether it be the rite or people, as dispensable.”[1] These words came to mind when I reflected on the Motu Proprio Traditionis Custodes and its background. Well, I have the impression that they say something very important about the deep causes of the present situation, causes that are in no way limited to Rome’s usual reaction to the alleged destruction of the Church’s unity by the presence and development of groups centered around the liturgy in the classical Roman Rite, but that are stuck in a kind of mental alienation of parts of the Church elites, both academic and hierarchical. And not only the present ones, but above all those from half a century ago.
New Liturgical Movement: “Traditionis Custodes, or Competing Concepts of Unity” — Guest Article by Dr. Tomasz Dekert
New Liturgical Movement: “Traditionis Custodes, or Competing Concepts of Unity” — Guest Article by Dr. Tomasz Dekert
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