2-1. Cardinal Ranjith, An Impressive Traditional Thinking Bishop...

 

 

These Last Days News - June 30, 2011

 

 

2-1. Cardinal Ranjith, An Impressive Traditional Thinking Bishop...

 

 

 

“Place more attention upon the Holy Sacrifice. It is being celebrated in a manner that is not approved of by the Eternal Father. Take the time to honor your God with your heart. My brothers and sisters, the Holy Sacrifice cannot be done in thirty minutes, or even in sixty minutes, properly. There is no time in Heaven, and you shall not place a time upon the Holy Sacrifice on your earth.”

– The Bayside Prophecies

Padre Pio, April 5, 1975

 

 

Offerimus Tibi Domine reported on June 23, 2011:

 

[TLDM Editor's Note: The following article was written by Fr. Simon Henry from England while he attended the Adoratio 2011 conference in Rome. The conference ran from June 20-24, 2011.]

 

In his [Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith] address to the Conference he spoke of the lack of faith in many parts of the Church itself, a lack of faith in the objective presence of the Lord in the Holy Eucharist. He thought there was often a lack of wonder and reverence for the Blessed Sacrament, quoting St Augustine saying, "We would sin if we did not adore Him before receiving Him."

 

The Cardinal spoke of the meaningless and tasteless (in many senses) experience of the Eucharist in many parishes because of a noisy and frenetic atmosphere that was no longer devout, adoring and contemplative. These aspects are not of choice but essential to a celebration of the Mass - an experience much more usual in the "Tridentine" Mass.

 

Of the priest facing the people instead of the Lord, he said that it promoted an attitude of showmanship, a silent body language of entertainment inevitably enters into the Mass. It is an innovation never advocated by the Second Vatican Council and is not respectful of the awesome mystery of the Holy Eucharist. (There was here an extended interruption for as applause echoed around the auditorium.)

 

◆ He re-iterated the view that active participation does not mean outward activity but interior adoration, which takes a great deal of effort and spiritual activity.

 

Later over dinner he was also telling us of some of the changes he has made in his own diocese:

 

• Each and every church has altar rails once again for the reception of Holy Communion, which is to be received kneeling.

• The allowance to deviate from the universal norm of Holy Communion on the tongue has been withdrawn. So Communion is always on the tongue.

• Priests must dress in the proper vestments for Mass.

• Priests are forbidden to bring elements or styles of worship from other religions into the sacred liturgy.

 

 

 

"O pastors in My Son's House, how many times must I warn you of the dangers of your innovations, the dangers of your experimenting in My Son's House? You will not convert, you will not return Our straying sheep with your improvisions. You must return discipline to My Son's House. This discipline must start with the rulers in My Son's House."

- The Bayside Prophecies

Our Lady of the Roses, November 22, 1976

 

 

 

 

 

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