Cardinal Müller: "There Is No Contrast Between Old And New Liturgy"
- There is only one liturgy, the substance of the sacraments as instituted by Christ.
- From the beginning, different Western and Eastern rites have developed in the one Church.
- The Latin rite developed further after the Council of Trent, and the Second Vatican Council did not want a new liturgy. So there is no new or old liturgy [why then the new liturgy was called "Novus Ordo"?].
- Cardinal Ratzinger has said that this liturgical reform came somewhat abruptly, simply by decree.
- It wasn't like that in Germany, where there was the Liturgical Movement with great figures like Romano Guardini and the manual missals in Latin and German that the faithful could read during Mass.
- There were many [vernacular] songs, including those for the Gloria and Credo.
- In Germany, the changes in the liturgy were not as abrupt as perhaps in Italy or France.
- One should not contrast the old and the new liturgy.
- The 'spirituality' that is ultimately associated with the Missal of John XXIII is legitimate.
- One should not create fronts. Rome is too restrictive.
- One should proceed in a conciliatory way, starting from a dogmatic thought, from the substance of the sacraments, and then proceed to the concrete liturgical form.
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