Liturgical rEVOLution of 1969 - The Why - 2/3

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
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• dogmatic
• lex orandi lex credendi
• Mediator dei
• Pius XII

[LiturgicalChants]

The idea of "active participation" that ratzinger mentions is the only one I had ever heard of until you mentioned this other type. The Eastern Churches continue to teach this idea of active participation. I don't know how people could be confused by thinking people must be visibly engaged in action at all times as if the liturgy is the assembly line at the ford automobile plant...what caused this confusion in the 1950/60's western industrialized world?