"How to go to Mass and do not lose faith." Francesco Antonio Grana interview Don Nicola Bux If going to Mass lose faith
Francesco Antonio Grana
"How to go to Mass and do not lose faith." Is the title of the new book by Nicola Bux, published by Piemme, with a contribution by Vittorio Messori. Priest and teacher of the Diocese of Bari, Rome to study theology and Oriental, for those on Jerusalem Christian liturgies, Bux has devoted several books on liturgy, ecclesiology and ecumenism that have been translated into major European languages. Longtime friend of Joseph Ratzinger, who in 1997 presented his book "The Fifth Seal," Bux has contributed to the post-conciliar reform of the liturgy, sacred music and art in his diocese and in its region with the Benedictine liturgist, Archbishop Andrea Mariano thin, and with Don Luigi Giussani in Communion and Liberation.
Don Nicola Bux, going to Mass because you can lose your faith?
Why Mass in recent decades is no longer celebrated as a ritual expression of the two thousandth anniversary of the Catholic Church, but often according to the adaptations and creativity of the individual celebrant. To happen to participate in a parish with a Mass of a certain type and another type to another. This has only ended up creating confusion, and often confusion and alienation, sometimes boring and neglect, usually because the faithful, in any part of the globe they are, despite the diversity induced by the cult situations and language, would like to attend the only Mass of the Catholic Church. Especially when you are in the presence of abuse and manipulation to make you end up losing the faith of many. As he said the then Cardinal Ratzinger were often carried deformations bear.
What are the liturgical abuses most often?
Frequent is the narration that plagues many celebrants, so there's only the moment but many mini homily homilies che punteggiano la celebrazione. Questo finisce per togliere lo spazio al raccoglimento personale. Credo che questo tipo di frenesia affabulatoria dipenda dal convincimento in molti che se noi preti non spieghiamo le cose la gente non le comprende. Si ha una certa sfiducia che il rito in sé parli, che i suoi simboli, i suoi significati, le sue figure passino nelle persone. C’è come un eccesso di interposizione per cui alla fine più che diventare un rito sacro, liturgico, appunto sacramentale, diventa un’interminabile didascalia, naturalmente spesso spettacolarizzata anche da ulteriori apporti di quelli che sono stati chiamati gli attori della liturgia. Non a caso questo termine nella percezione della gente riguarda il mondo dello spettacolo. La Mass loses its sense of mystery of the passion and resurrection of Jesus Christ, to become an entertainment that should then be measured in terms of rating. That's why in the liturgy was introduced applause.
At what point is the reform of the reform "desired by Benedict XVI?
With these words, which he used when Ratzinger was still Cardinal Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, he meant that the reform started after the Council had to be resumed, and in some ways right where, for always use his words, the restoration of the painting had risked large, ie, in an attempt to clean it had taken the risk to take away too many layers of color. He started this restoration through its own style. The Pope celebrated the liturgy in a subdued, not shouted. Also want the prayers, songs and anything else not use tones exhibitionistic. And we should point out two special actions in its liturgies are obvious: he placed between himself and the assembly of the Cross, indicating that the liturgical rite is not addressed to the Minister priesthood but to Christ, and kneeling to receive Communion, indicating that this is not a dinner in the worldly sense of the word, but a communion with the body of Jesus Christ is worshiped first, however, in the words of St. Augustine, before being eaten.
is facing many obstacles in the Motu proprio Summorum Pontificum on the pre-conciliar Mass?
I believe that currently the obstacles become more feeble than the exit of the Motu proprio, in 2007. Through the internet you can see how there is a fair movement of young people who look, and how you can practice the traditional Mass, also called a Latin Mass or Mass of All Time. And I think this is a very important sign to be seized.
is clear that the pastors of the Church, first as the bishops and then priests, although often said that we must be able take the sign of the times, an expression much used after Vatican II, often fail to understand that the signs of the times do not provide them, but they occur and are regulated mainly by young people. I think this is the symptom most interesting, because if you run with the traditional Mass the elderly, adults, you may also have a suspicion that this is a nostalgia. The fact that mostly young people who seek and participate in the Mass in Latin is completely unexpected and therefore deserves to be read, understood and mostly accompanied by the bishops.
I think the Pope has cognizance of this and why it intends to make a further contribution education through application of the motu proprio to help everyone understand that in addition to the new form of the Roman Rite there is the ancient form or extraordinary.
How did your friendship with Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI?
is a friendship that dates back to the initials of his theological work and especially when he became Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. I was very interested in his studies, I would say its sail against the tide, although he quotes a liberal theologian, as indeed we were young we all after the Council. Of course man mano che ci si accorgeva che quanto si sperava progredisse in realtà diventava sempre più confuso, a volte contraddittorio al punto da far perdere i connotati dell’eredità cattolica, si è diventati più guardinghi. E in questo io ho potuto fruire senza merito della stima e della considerazione dell’allora cardinale che mi ha chiamato in Vaticano quale consultore della Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, e in seguito, anche di quella delle Cause dei Santi e dell’Ufficio delle Celebrazioni Liturgiche Pontificie, e mi ha nominato perito ai Sinodi dei Vescovi sull’Eucaristia del 2005 e sul Medio Oriente del 2010.
da "L'Avanti" del 4 marzo 2011
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