As reported by the Benedict XVI Institute, contrary to the ongoing commentary by secular media of all stripes, Archbishop Cordileone says the most important issue for the Church and the next Pope is the liturgy: “While liturgy was not a focus of the cardinals in the conclave that elected Pope Francis after the resignation of Pope Benedict, it will undoubtedly be a central focus in this upcoming one,” says Archbishop Cordileone. “With all of the issues facing the Church at this time, none is more important than how we worship. God created us for worshipping him. Divine worship, if it is truly to deserve the name “divine,” relies on a sense of the sacred, which in turn springs from the sacramental vision of reality: Physical reality mediates and makes present the spiritual, transcendent reality lying beyond it. If we lose this, we lose everything." Archbishop Cordileone goes on to say (his Tweet with the quote below that was culled from his essay has gone viral, with more than 230,000 views): “Most of the devout young Catholics I meet grow up with the typical parish fare on Sundays, only later discovering the beauty of our authentic Catholic liturgical patrimony. Their reaction? Wonder, mixed with anger. They tell me—and this is a literal, word-for-word quote—“I’ve been deprived of my Catholic birthright.” “Pope Francis’s purpose in issuing Traditionis Custodes was to unite the Church in one form of worship," he points out, but in reality "Now we have extremely divergent forms of the Roman Rite. A video of a German priest rapping at the Mass recently went viral. On the other hand,...
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