Paavi Lourdesissa

Pyhä isä kävi Lourdesissa, vain parin päivän erolla pohjoismaisen pyhiinvaeltajaryhmän kanssa. Jo etukäteen mainostettiin, kuinka Ranskan piispat vastustavat paavin tapaa jakaa kommuunio polvistuneille uskoville kielelle. Niin kuitenkin taas kävi. Ja paavin seremonaarius selitti: http://thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com/2008/09/papal-mc-explains-changes-in-papal.html

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In his bright office at the Vatican, at the corner of St. Peter's Square, Msgr. Marini explains: "Benedict XVI wants to emphasize that the norms for distributing Communion in the Catholic Church are still in force. One has indeed forgotten that the distribution of Holy Communion in the hand is due to an indult, an exception, one might say, given by the Holy See to the episcopal conferences that request it." He recognizes that Benedict XVI has a "preference" for communion in the mouth but that "the use of this modality does not detract from the other modality, to receive the host in hand." However, he observes, "to receive the host in the mouth highlights the truth of the Real Presence in the Eucharist, it helps the devotion of the faithful and introduces more easily into the sense of mystery. So many aspects it is important to stress today and urgent to recover." Nothing, therefore, of a papal fantasy. These changes in liturgical forms are part of a clear vision of Benedict XVI and explicitly expressed in Rome by several interlocutors close to him: "To achieve, ultimately, a liturgical synthesis between the Mass of Paul VI and that which tradition can contribute to it as enrichment."