[Magdalen] Theological and Liturgical Tidbits - St. John's Abbey.

[Simon Kershaw]

Change comes eventually, even in Rome.

It's a bit like the revision of the daily office in the Church of England.
In the 1970s and 1980s there was much work on revision of the Eucharist,
but the standard comment from liturgists was that there was no need or
desire to revise Morning and Evening prayer which were nigh on perfect in
their Cranmerian state. These people had grown up and been formed with
Cranmer's version, like generations before them. The version in the ASB
wasn't much more than a rendition into "you" language.

It took a later generation of liturgists to produce "Celebrating Common
Prayer" outside the official revision process, and another decade before
the CofE adopted this revision of the Office. Although there are still
plenty of people who use the traditional BCP forms, especially for
"formal" Sunday services, I suspect that the vast majority of CofE clergy
and laity who say the daily office (as the clergy are canonically supposed
to do) use the modern Common Worship forms.

This is similar to Max Planck's observation that "A new scientific truth
does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the
light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new
generation grows up that is familiar with it." Max Planck, 1906

Neatly (and indeed liturgically :-) ) paraphrased as
  "Science advances one funeral at a time".

simon

cantor03--- via Magdalen wrote:
> Roman Stuff:
>
> There was another article in "Worship" in which Pope Francis states that
> the new Roman Rite is complete in every way, and there is no need to use
> older worship forms. Â In this he disagrees with all the other Popes since
> Vatican-2.
>
> I realize, however, that a large part of this is that since Francis was
> ordained
> priest in 1969, he has no clerical experience with the Tridentine Liturgy,
> and has
> probably never seen a well done Solemn High Mass using that form.


-- 
Simon Kershaw
simon at kershaw.org.uk
Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire