Thursday, July 8
Open Season on Liturgical Abuse
Over two months ago, the Vatican released its compendium of litrugical abuses, Redemptionis Sacramentum. It was everything it could have been: a list of errors, why these actions are erroneous, and the penalties (including actions which constitute the matter for mortal sin!) for abuses.
If we still endure liturgical abuses at our parishes, it is now our own fault.
These abuses flourished in confusion over norms, in ignorance as to what is right, wrong, or "about to be approved by Rome." Rome has now made all of this quite clear.
That is why St. Blog's should now declare open season on liturgical abuses. The Church has now had 2 months to digest this document. Now it's time for us to call our pastors to adhere to it.
This is the age of lay activism. A layman is calling the Church to accountability on the scandal of pro-abortion politicians. Lay movements are renewing the Church, and lay Religious Ed instructors are introducing the Theology of the Body or the work of Scott Hahn. The laity must also seize the opportunity to call their leaders to authenitc liturgical renewal.
In short, we all have computers. Probably, we all have printers. And we all have this document. If there are abuses that continue and it is because we have yet to print off this document and approach our priests with it, we are fully to blame for what we choose to endure.
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