Mass Ban in St Peter's: Francis Cardinal Attempts to Justify the Measure
Cardinal Gambetti, the Archpriest of Saint Peter's Basilica, justified Francis' Mass ban in Saint Peter's saying on VaticanNews.va (June 22) that …
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Hugh N. Cry
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John A Cassani
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It is beyond laughable to hear anyone try to promote the desirability of concelebration, aside from certain special occasions. When a priest is a concelebrant, it is as though he is not celebrating Mass at all. I have witnessed large daily concelebrated Masses where priests showed up after the Gospel to concelebrate! Concelebration promotes laziness among priests. Every priest should invoke their …More
It is beyond laughable to hear anyone try to promote the desirability of concelebration, aside from certain special occasions. When a priest is a concelebrant, it is as though he is not celebrating Mass at all. I have witnessed large daily concelebrated Masses where priests showed up after the Gospel to concelebrate! Concelebration promotes laziness among priests. Every priest should invoke their right to celebrate their own daily Mass.
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Some cardinals have become 'unhinged'.
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@Tesa -and as @philosopher astutely noted Canon Law 902 states priests are "completely free to celebrate the Eucharist individually". It would be a simple matter to schedule all priests withing to celebrate individual Masses for the same times and those wishing to concelebrate for other times.