Swiss Nuncio: We Need to Settle for the Original, the Vetus Ordo
There is an urgency to move toward a "full liturgical restoration" of the Roman Rite - U.S. born Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, the Nuncio in Berne, Switzerland, writes on his blog (December 24).
He quotes Father Jeremy Driscoll OSB who explains in a Catholic News Service video that the tradition of liturgy is not primarily – as the moderns think - expressive of what people are, but impressive, "It forms us."
Gullickson comments, "I have lived long enough to understand that the expressive model does not impress and contributes significantly to disaffection among ordinary Catholics."
What was done after the council, was done according to Gullickson "with a vengeance and has reaped its meager harvest."
He suspects that the growing popularity of the Vetus Ordo among young people has to do with their being impressed by the sublimity of a rite which admits of no tinkering.
Picture: Joseph Shaw, © CC BY-NC-SA, #newsSoywobxxwv
He quotes Father Jeremy Driscoll OSB who explains in a Catholic News Service video that the tradition of liturgy is not primarily – as the moderns think - expressive of what people are, but impressive, "It forms us."
Gullickson comments, "I have lived long enough to understand that the expressive model does not impress and contributes significantly to disaffection among ordinary Catholics."
What was done after the council, was done according to Gullickson "with a vengeance and has reaped its meager harvest."
He suspects that the growing popularity of the Vetus Ordo among young people has to do with their being impressed by the sublimity of a rite which admits of no tinkering.
Picture: Joseph Shaw, © CC BY-NC-SA, #newsSoywobxxwv