Our fathers did eat manna in the desert, as it is written: He gave them bread from heaven to eat. Then Jesus said to them: Amen, amen, I say to you; Moses gave you not bread from heaven, but my Father giveth you the true bread from heaven. For the bread of God is that which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the world. They said therefore unto him: Lord, give us always this bread. And Jesus said to them: I am the bread of life. He that cometh to me shall not hunger: and he that believeth in me shall never thirst.
Edit: Question: If the Pope can commit liturgical abuses and kneel to wash and kiss the feet of 12 children, is it not also possible that he can kneel and venerate the Host and Blood of God made present on the altar? I hope no one will try and equate the two, but people often do equate themselves with God.
There’s very frank reporting of this event at Catholic Family News, no frills, just sober reporting what was said and done. That this is a liturgical abuse which has been repeatedly condemned by the Vatican is indisputable. Unfortunately, this ritual, which dates from a 50s revision of the liturgy, is in itself a kind of novelty as FatherZ has said. It is meant to elucidate the commemoration Christ’s establishment of the Sacrament of Holy Orders, the priesthood, which does not include women.
Rorate is declaring the death of the Reform of the Reform. Actually, it seems that it was being killed off months before Benedict had resigned shortly after Vatileaks broke.
So, to the strumming of maudlin guitars playing a folk song, Pope Francis went to 12 trouble makers, two of them female, kneeling to wash their feet. He knelt with great difficulty on the floor and seemed to find the work very taxing as he was assisted by two acolytes. One wonders then, why he can not also kneel (a question asked by Roman Catholic Imperialist last week) before the Blessed Sacrament as well, since he’s willing to go to the trouble of washing the feet of two girls, in violation of Vatican ruling during a feast which celebrates Christ’s establishment of the priesthood.
Rome Reports has a very good description of what happened and you can see the Holy Father being helped up by two acolytes toward the end of the video:
The Mandatum ritual is not a '50s novelty. The novelty was its incorporation into in the Maundy Thursday mass (as was the creation of a separate Chrism Mass for the consecration of the Holy Oils, which formerly occurred during the bishop's celebration of this mass).
ReplyDeleteThe Mandatum itself is an ancient ceremony. Indeed, "Maundy" Thursday gets its English name from the ritual. Traditionally, the thirteen (see below) clerics could be, and often were, substituted by poor men (but still always men). Many Catholic princes imitated the practice, too. The Austrian and Spanish monarchs did so even into the 20th century. Even now, the non-Catholic queen of England distributes "Maundy money" to the poor, though the last English monarch to actually wash feet was the Catholic James II.
Though the prescribed number was originally twelve, from the Middle Ages until Pius XII, it was thirteen.
Yep, just like I said, it’s an innovation.
DeleteI love the headline and I could not have put it better my self.
ReplyDeleteYour lack of charity is incredible. "Trouble makers"? Pope Francis visited those in prison as commanded by Christ.
ReplyDeleteDid he also violate the rubrics out of charity?
DeleteI just wished it could be a trap they set for him and he accidently felt in to it. If he purposedly abused it (the liturgy)all the good efforts of Pope Bennedict XVI to fight against modernism so far would be going down to the drain and the Catholic church would be like a new Protestant church. Please, Holy Spirit saves the Church!
ReplyDeleteSo the Pope should be above bringing charity and love to those who are most in need of conversion and repentance?
ReplyDeleteYou’re assuming that charity and following the rubrics are mutually exclusive. I can’t imagine a more Un-Catholic thing to say.
DeleteI can think of many more actually un Catholic things to say to include labelling prisoners, of whom you have no idea of the state of their souls, as troublemakers
ReplyDeleteJuvenile delinquents are, by definition, trouble makers.
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