Friday, January 14, 2022

Amy Wellborn vs. "Traditiones Custodes"

Ms. Wellborn writes here about the concerns she has over "synodality."

She could be writing this graf about "Traditiones Custodes" and the implementing regs from Cdl. Roche:

...What you can probably see is that new-stuff-in-the-Spirit talk annoys me. More than that, it raises my hackles and makes me suspicious. What I’m touching on in this blog post – how contemporary calls to Catholics to live the moral life, as reflected in today’s Gospel, are detached from the deep well of Catholic tradition and experience – is a feature, not a bug, of this Synod talk. It’s not a good thing – not because we want to be closed to the Spirit – but because the rhetoric diminishes our necessary engagement with the deep, Spirit-formed life of the Church as it’s been lived over the centuries, all over the world. I mean, it wasn’t perfect, but it worked fairly well, raised up lots of saints, created massive and creative and responsive institutions that ameliorated the suffering of millions.

I’d much prefer, if trying to figure out how to make the Church a more powerful witness to the Gospel in the world today, to begin there – the Gospel and then the richness of two thousand years of experience and wisdom (and mistakes) – than just constantly being pointed to some ambiguous “new” thing that the “Spirit” is going to guide me towards.

Because you know what? All that talk, reducing authority to the person of the guy holding the microphone at the moment, all that ignore the past, trust the Spirit talk comes across to me as trust us more than anything else. Which in turn sounds like a call, not so much to clarity, but to rationalization....

You will recall that the Novus Ordo of 1969 was heralded as The Greatest Liturgy Since Sliced Bread.  It didn't appear that way to a lot of people--some 'expert' and some 'pewsitters'--but it's what they said.  But the Old Rite, with the 'richness of two thousand years of experience and wisdom....wasn't perfect, but raised up Saints.....' simply would not die off.

TC is determined to kill it off, just as 'the Spirit of synodality' is determined to kill off 'the deep well of Catholic tradition and experience.'

Yah, well.  Synodality may be imposed, but its success remains to be seen.

Just like the Novus Ordo.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Opponents of TC are ultimately "petitio principii" and yet, ironically, still attend the Novus Ordo on Sunday.