{"id":50403,"date":"2017-08-24T17:28:44","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www1.romereports.com\/2017\/08\/24\/pope-with-magisterial-authority-i-affirm-that-liturgical-reform-is-irreversible\/"},"modified":"2017-08-24T17:28:44","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:28:44","slug":"pope-with-magisterial-authority-i-affirm-that-liturgical-reform-is-irreversible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/2017\/08\/24\/pope-with-magisterial-authority-i-affirm-that-liturgical-reform-is-irreversible\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope: With magisterial authority I affirm that liturgical reform is irreversible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The pope made an exception to his August hiatus to participate in this <strong>congress on Liturgy<\/strong>, organized by Italian bishops.<\/p>\n<p>The occasion had significant importance because before speaking <strong>the pope clarified that he would speak with 'certainty and magisterial authority.'<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pope Francis recalled the <strong>process of liturgical reform of the Catholic Church<\/strong>, which began in 1903 and ended 60 years later, during the Second Vatican Council. The result was a new Mass Rite that accepted the use of more languages other than Latin, and a greater variety of Biblical readings.<\/p>\n<p>The pope has stated 'with magisterial authority' that <strong>this reform is 'irreversible' and has asked to avoid 'superficial readings, partial receptions and practices that disfigure it.'<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>POPE FRANCIS<br \/>\n<\/strong><em>'The task of promoting and guarding the liturgy has been a right entrusted to the Apostolic See and the diocesan bishops, whose responsibility and authority I trust at this present moment.'<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The <strong>liturgical reform made in 1963 by Pope Paul VI<\/strong> made possible a greater participation by the Catholic faithful during Mass.<\/p>\n<p>However, <strong>some sectors applied the reform in an abusive and superficial way<\/strong>, which seemed to trivialize the Eucharist. These particular abuses caused many to look at the reform suspiciously.<\/p>\n<p>Now that years have passed and the waters seemed to have settled, the pope asks all parties to a<strong>pply the reform and to delve deeper into its motivations and the meaning of the changes<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He asks to avoid \"superficial readings, partial receptions and practices that disfigure the reform.\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":28711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[],"acf":{"video":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/o55e5_XeVEA","video_descarga":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bliturgiaeng.mov","international_url":"http:\/\/attuale.romereports.com\/news\/bliturgiaint.mov","type":"bn","newsletter":"si"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50403"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romereports.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}