"Before the Council, Mass was Mass. Obviously, in Latin, we didn't understand anything, but we had the impression (impression???) that it was Mass. Now, however, we have the feeling that it is the translation of a Protestant service. From my point of view, the liturgical reform as desired by the Council (Vatican II) was good; certainly it did not want the Mass, the Eucharist, to be sacrificed, nor above all reduced to what Protestants do during their ceremony, which we call supper. For example, when it was decided that the priest should not say Mass facing the altar, with his back to the faithful, but facing them, a decisive reform was carried out that truly disturbed many Christians. With good reason (With good reason???) — so that the faithful could understand — it was decided to celebrate the liturgy in the common language, but without any desire to abolish the sacred. Today, in practice, the Eucharist no longer has the sacred, serious and divine character it had in the past. (p. 103)"
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Imported from EN Wikiquote
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jean_Guitton
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Related Quotes
"Atheism is not only complicated and rare, it is also a recent phenomenon, a peculiarity supported by few and only rec…"
"(Referring to Marthe Robin) was simple.... What prevailed in Marthe was her capacity for sacrifice, in imitation of C…"
"Paul VI's intention regarding the liturgy, regarding the vulgarisation of the Mass, was to reform the Catholic liturg…"
"Joan of Arc possesses more genius than talent, more heroism than courage, more intuition than intelligence, more imme…"
"In Giovanna, purity was more than a virtue. It was her mark, her reason for existing and her implicit glory, her rese…"
"Joan puts God's will above her virginity. She says that she “has offered her virginity as a vow for as long as God pl…"
"Unlike Calvino, you bring the soul into the designs of merciful predestination without any element of anguish."
"After about forty centuries of oral civilisation, the Word is an inflated currency."
"Ordinary people have more confidence in those who have suddenly arrived at that state and are naturally honest than i…"
"Joan is not a theologian; in fact, she cannot tell A from B. However, listening to her answers during her trial, we s…"