{"id":3428,"date":"2007-11-03T12:09:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T17:09:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/11\/03\/owners-versus-servants\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T12:09:44","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T17:09:44","slug":"owners-versus-servants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/11\/owners-versus-servants\/","title":{"rendered":"Owners versus Servants"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nVia L.A. Catholic<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A Catholic News Service article in this
\nweek’s issue of The Tidings quotes Vatican II luminary Cardinal
\nGottfried Danneels of Mechelen-Brussels, Belgium, as making an
\ninteresting admission:<\/p>\n

“‘The active involvement of the people in the liturgy is an
\nunparalleled gift of the [Second Vatican] council to the people of
\nGod,’ he said.<\/p>\n

“While endorsing that participation, he also cautioned that ‘there is a
\nshadow side’ to it.<\/p>\n

“‘Participation and mutual celebration can lead to a subtle form of
\nmanipulation…. Those who serve the liturgy, both priests and laity,
\nbecome its owners’ instead of its servants, he said. This can lead to
\ntrivializing the liturgy, eliminating the sacred and turning it from
\nthe worship it is supposed to be into a mere social event, he added.<\/p>\n

“Cardinal Danneels said the trend he was describing is not universal,
\nbut it would be wrong to ignore it in any serious attempt to evaluate
\nthe state of liturgical practice some 40 years after the council.”<\/p>\n

Cardinal Danneels said these things, and others, on Oct. 25 at a
\nliturgical conference at the Catholic Univetsity of America.<\/p>\n

These points by Cardinal Danneels have also been made for the past 40
\nyears by so many Catholics whom the liberals continue to deride as
\n“traditionalists.”<\/p>\n

Wow, I didn’t know Cardinal Danneels was a traditionalist. Did you?\n<\/p>\n

The Cardinal could easily be
\nthe most progressive member of the college with his support for condom
\nuse and being a past president of Pax Christi, so this makes
\nhis commentary all the more interesting and harder to dismiss.
\n The experimentation that has taken place within the liturgy
\nshows exactly this idea of people seeing themselves as owners of the
\nliturgy than as servants to it.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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