Catholics upset over liturgical abuse may appreciate some liturgical sanity from Cardinal Arinze, the former prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments. In his homily, addressed to bishops in Asia, he said that "The fashion in some parts of the world of not installing kneelers in churches should not be copied by the Church in Asia." [more on kneeling]
He also...
* warned against "false conceptions of inculturation"
* encouraged reverence
* called for priests to wear proper vestments
* instructed that improper vessels not be used for the Holy Eucharist
* reminded that readings at Mass are to be taken only from Holy Scripture
He also said that bishops should follow the Church's norms so that "the local Church will be spared questionable or downright mistaken innovations and idiosyncrasies of some enthusiastic cleric whose fertile imaginations invents something on Saturday night and whose uninformed zeal forces this innovation on the innocent congregation on Sunday morning."
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