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In a speech to the members of the Vatican Dicastery in charge of liturgical matters, the Pope emphasized the importance of reform for the Church's renewal.
“Without liturgical reform, there is no reform of the Church,” Pope Francis told participants in the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments – responsible for liturgical matters in the Church – whom he received on February 8, 2024, at the Vatican.
In his address, the Pope also emphasized that the question of women’s role in the Church should not be reduced to that of access to ministries.
For the Argentine Pontiff, liturgical reform is not “a specialization for a few experts, but rather an inner disposition of all the people of God” and the needs to be “at the center” of the Church. “It is a task of spiritual, pastoral, ecumenical and missionary renewal.”
“A Church that does not feel the passion for spiritual growth, that does not seek to speak comprehensibly to the men and women of her time, that does not grieve for the division among Christians, that does not tremble with the eagerness to proclaim Christ to the nations, is a sick Church,” he warned.
Addressing the members of the dicastery who had gathered in Rome from February 6 to 9, the Pope defended the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, 60 years after the promulgation of the constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium(December 4, 1963).
Like Paul VI, Francis placed the “scope of liturgical reform in the broadest context of the renewal of the Church.”
Continued below.
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“Without liturgical reform, there is no reform of the Church,” Pope Francis told participants in the plenary assembly of the Dicastery for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments – responsible for liturgical matters in the Church – whom he received on February 8, 2024, at the Vatican.
In his address, the Pope also emphasized that the question of women’s role in the Church should not be reduced to that of access to ministries.
For the Argentine Pontiff, liturgical reform is not “a specialization for a few experts, but rather an inner disposition of all the people of God” and the needs to be “at the center” of the Church. “It is a task of spiritual, pastoral, ecumenical and missionary renewal.”
“A Church that does not feel the passion for spiritual growth, that does not seek to speak comprehensibly to the men and women of her time, that does not grieve for the division among Christians, that does not tremble with the eagerness to proclaim Christ to the nations, is a sick Church,” he warned.
Addressing the members of the dicastery who had gathered in Rome from February 6 to 9, the Pope defended the liturgical reform of the Second Vatican Council, 60 years after the promulgation of the constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium(December 4, 1963).
Like Paul VI, Francis placed the “scope of liturgical reform in the broadest context of the renewal of the Church.”
Women’s role in the Church
Continued below.
Pope: Church reform is spousal, for Christ the Bridegroom
In a speech to the members of the Vatican Dicastery in charge of liturgical matters, the Pope emphasized the importance of reform for the Church's renewal.
aleteia.org
