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LITURGY AND CHRISTIAN CULTURE THE RESTORATION OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE THROUGH THE RESTORATION OF LITURGY

We have certainly all heard of the famous "indult Agatha Christie". It is an authorization, or indult, granted by Pope Paul VI in 1971, allowing, with some restrictions, the continuation of the celebration of the traditional Mass in England and Wales. The Pope gave this permission in response to a request from fifty-five cultural personalities as diverse as Agatha Christie, Anglican, Graham Greene, Catholic, Yehudi Menuhin, Jew or Jorge Luis Borges, Agnostic. It was certainly not religious reasons that motivated them to elaborate and sign this request to the Roman Pontiff, but many cultural reasons. "The [traditional Roman] rite belongs to the universal culture as well as to churchmen and practicing Christians" they said, and they drew attention "to the frightening responsibility that [the Holy See] would incur" in the history of the human spirit if he refused to allow the survival of the traditional Mass. " In other words, they pointed out that the Mass is not only a question concerning the opinions and designs of the Sovereign Pontiff or of any Roman dicastery, but that it is, like the ancient medieval cathedrals, a cultural monument which must be preserved. Just as it would not come to the head of anyone who has not lost the reason to "renovate" the Cathedral of Chartres by placing a glass roof or painting it in pink and green, the traditional rite of the Mass should not not to be reformed according to the tastes or the modes of the present time or of the contemporary man. To do such a thing would, according to the spirit of this petition, be to commit a crime of lèse culture. And even more, it would be arrogating to oneself an authority that could only be sustained if one considered the Roman Pontiff as endowed with autocratic powers vis-à-vis the Tradition itself. If he did, he would bear an enormous responsibility to future generations. [After…]

Rubén Angle Pereto Rivas (Rome, 25/10/2019)

LITURGY AND CHRISTIAN CULTURE THE RESTORATION OF CHRISTIAN CULTURE THROUGH THE RESTORATION OF LITURGY We have certainly all heard of the famous "indult Agatha Christie". It is an authorization, or indult, granted by Pope Paul VI in 1971, allowing, with some restrictions, the continuation of the celebration of the traditional Mass in England and Wales. The Pope gave this permission in response to a request from fifty-five cultural personalities as diverse as Agatha Christie, Anglican, Graham Greene, Catholic, Yehudi Menuhin, Jew or Jorge Luis Borges, Agnostic. It was certainly not religious reasons that motivated them to elaborate and sign this request to the Roman Pontiff, but many cultural reasons. "The [traditional Roman] rite belongs to the universal culture as well as to churchmen and practicing Christians" they said, and they drew attention "to the frightening responsibility that [the Holy See] would incur" in the history of the human spirit if he refused to allow the survival of the traditional Mass. " In other words, they pointed out that the Mass is not only a question concerning the opinions and designs of the Sovereign Pontiff or of any Roman dicastery, but that it is, like the ancient medieval cathedrals, a cultural monument which must be preserved. Just as it would not come to the head of anyone who has not lost the reason to "renovate" the Cathedral of Chartres by placing a glass roof or painting it in pink and green, the traditional rite of the Mass should not not to be reformed according to the tastes or the modes of the present time or of the contemporary man. To do such a thing would, according to the spirit of this petition, be to commit a crime of lèse culture. And even more, it would be arrogating to oneself an authority that could only be sustained if one considered the Roman Pontiff as endowed with autocratic powers vis-à-vis the Tradition itself. If he did, he would bear an enormous responsibility to future generations. [After…] Rubén Angle Pereto Rivas (Rome, 25/10/2019)

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