Liturgical rEVOLution of 1969 - The Why - 1/3

This is the 2nd of a series of videos called : "Liturgical rEVOLution of 1969"
This particular video is entitled "The Why"
The next possible videos include- "The What & The Eucharist"

In this video, I speak about the different reasons given by liturgists with regard to the 1969 liturgical revolution. In my search of books that were both for and against the liturgical reform.

I have found the following 3 prominant justifications/motives.

1. Historical
In light of Pius XII's Mediator Dei paragraphs 62, 63, and 64, most of the arguments that make an appeal to history to justify the liturgical reform do not hold any water. Liturgical practices that are today commonplace are explectity comdemned as" senseless antiquarianism".

2. Pastoral
"Active Participation" is the key phrase in the many pastoral justifications I've come across. At first, it seems like there may be a good reason... untill we discover the true meaning of "active participation" . The true meaning of active participation is a primarily internal participation, accompanied by external acts of piety such as kneeling, the sign of the cross, and singing the gregorian chants of the church during the liturgy. Cardinal Ratzinger (now pope Benedict XVI) gives the true meaning of active participation in his book "The Spirit of the Liturgy".

3. Dogmatic
An emphasis on the doctrine of the "Mystical Body of Christ" has be come a 'dogmatic jsutification' . However, any true catholic knows that there can not be such a thing as 'dogmatic justification' for a liturgical reform. This is becuase of the long standing catholic axiom, "Lex Orandi Lex Credendi". This means that we derive what we believe from how we pray. The first exmaple of the reversal of this axiom was the protestant revolt. They changed the liturgy to suit their beliefs.... so did the liturgical reformers change our liturgy in light of the "newly re-discovered" teaching on the Mystical Body of Christ. This over-emphasis on the comunity turns out to be nothing more than an imposition of protestant paxis upon the catholic world.

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• eucharist
• jesus
• pastoral
• historical
• dogmatic
• lex orandi lex credendi
• Mediator dei
• Pius XII

[LiturgicalChants]

the tridentine being far superior and liturgically sound but in it's imposition of uniformity, devotions and regulations in the name of a counter offense towards protestants going against the harmony held by the local bishops with their flock. The idea of organic development...perhaps one can question if it ever existed at all. This is why the Oriental Orthodox Churches are the only true model of harmonius liturgical diversity, within the "Catholic" Church it is not harmonious.

[LiturgicalChants]

Where the Holy Spirit's role comes into liturgical suppression and or local traditions I dont fully know. I can only say my experiences seeing the same corporate entities in every local town of the USA in look a like "shopping centers" this to me is frightening. The counter reformation and the humanism of the scholastic period has I think brought more harm than good and for me to a certain extent both the tridentine mass and novus ordo symbolize this

[LiturgicalChants]

I wonder if if the statements you read could be used by some people as an explanation for continueing to suppress the "iberian/mozarabic" liturgy in Spain. It was never completely suppressed by all but it was confined to three or four chapels or parishes for the last few hundred years. Personally I am very divided on these statements. I argue for liturgical diversity rather than uniformity, therefore the diversity that existed in earlier centuries is to me more natural.