Cardinal Sarah: There Is "A Deep Malaise" Around the Liturgy
Cardinal Robert Sarah has given an interview to ValeursActuelles.com (December 22). Highlights.
• "The idea that we will all go to heaven is not what the Gospel says."
• "Sin must be denounced" and "the guilty must be punished."
• Islam is spreading because we [Catholics] are neither missionaries nor ardent in our faith. The advance of Islam reveals the lukewarmness of Christians. We do not dare to evangelise.
• "The liturgy obeys codified patterns, inherited from a thousand generations," but "the Catholic liturgy is sick today."
• "Why are so many young people fascinated by the ancient liturgy? Let us be honest. It would be too easy to declare sententiously that they all have a psychological need for identity. Should we not rather admit that many [Novus Ordo] celebrations disappoint them?"
• "It is sometimes believed that the liturgy must be made more approachable through the use of secular music, artificially relaxed attitudes, the removal of sacred separations and the architectural …More
First of all, we shouldn't be too caught up the fixation of heaven which has created the problem of extremism where God's name has frequently been used in vain... The problem with looking over one's shoulders at your neighbour's sins is a touch and go affair, in order to do that we must first hv a good understanding of your neighbour's situation and history, otherwise, superficial condemnation does little to alleviate anybody issues. It may raise the ego of the one who corrects the other temporarily. The more important area where one ought to develop is one's personal relationship with Jesus. Let Him be the rock upon your faith rest. Let Him be what attracts people of all walks of life to you and not the other outward expressions which are largely ego-centric. Let Jesus re-make our world.
Vatican II isn't faithful to the Church, Cardinal Sarah, as you must know. Let's start by denouncing that.
I wish we could be rid of Bergoglio some way or another, and a good man like this, or someone similar, could be elected Pope.