The traditional liturgy is alive

Here is the interview that his father Vincenzo Nuara Christian roots has issued last December.

Interview with Father Vincent Nuara OP

The traditional liturgy is alive

by Salvatore Russo

Nuara Father Vincent, founder of Friendship Summorum Pontificum Priests and lay Youth Group and Tradition, was the organizer of the conference "A great gift for the whole Church." We interviewed him on the value of the rediscovery of ancient Roman Rite.

Father Nuara, last year the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum conference dedicated to had a great echo in the media. This means that the theme of the liturgy is more important than anyone could imagine?

It is surprising but true. In the liturgy the Church says what she believes, what it is and teaches how to be united with her Lord and Savior. The interest generated from the traditional liturgy, especially after the Motu proprio, has grown considerably, as this ancient liturgy has a very pronounced appeal to beauty, the sacredness and mystery. The man of today, and in particular young people, they feel overwhelmed by a liturgy that has spanned the centuries of Christianity, which was the glory and the strength of the Church in difficult times and persecution, as it joins human and divine synthesis through the beautiful language of symbols, gestures and rituals of sacred formulas that are the perfect expression of the faith of the Church, in a unique relationship between the lex or Andi, lex credendi.

After one year, what are the signs that they understand that interest continues to be high

Masses increase, there are many believers who require this liturgy to their pastors, the debates, I live at all levels, organize conferences and seminars on the topic everywhere. Furthermore, we understand how the faithful are tired of a liturgy that wants to be repetition and recurrence of everyday life, which means to gain "understanding" or to be "owned" comes to sloppiness and banality.

The man of all time knows that there is a dividing line between earth and heaven, between the divine and the human to be respected and this boundary makes the difference ... By the way this liturgy expresses the full what is True, Good and Beautiful and announced by the Church for two thousand years.

One of the fruits of the last meeting was the birth of the Society blackened "Friendship Priests Summorum Pontificum." There may or talk of interest arose among the priests for Mass according to the ancient rite?

The interest of the priests, especially the young, is quite high. The Society of spiritual "Friendship Priests Summorum Pontificum" is spreading spontaneously because the priests feel the need to recover the roots of their vocation, their identity, to understand their true mission.

The priests are the first to realize that a certain liturgy did not work and is in a crisis like the theology that has produced it, as did the priest himself losing her own identity and has made many of the faithful "smooth" the faith Catholic.

Certain theology, exasperatedly in stressing the common priesthood of the faithful than their own ministry of the priest, has weakened the strength of the latter, a force that always has in the Church. In past years we have witnessed the clericalization of the laity and the secularization of the clergy: it is a product of this thinking widely.

In the ancient liturgy of the priests found their place that is their identity, clarity of faith, their real mission, the deep sense of being for God, for the Church, for men according to the Tradition Ecclesiae. In addition, the priests begin to know and celebrate this liturgy are combined with ease and enthusiasm to the study of dogma and the perennial Magisterium of the Church, "St. Thomas for having teacher" (cf. OT 16) - which for many is something completely new - and discover the beauty and depth that satisfies the mind and spirit.

It seems that many of these priests are very young. What causes this phenomenon?

Young people are the first to understand the changes and differences and their desire for beauty, inner peace, which are in the world, and evangelical radicalism. Many are approaching out of curiosity, others because the present liturgy no longer satisfies them, others because they realize that something is not working ....

Others, because a bad campaign of opposition to the traditional liturgy, in their training environments, has had an opposite effect: they want to see with their eyes and understand. Prohibit, forbid only for bias, for ideological alignments never produces good results and these young people want to know the ancient liturgy also because they feel the need for roots.

The Church has lived for two thousand years, was born forty years ago and its roots are very recognizable in its liturgy ever.

What can we say or the speakers at the conference this year?

The intellectual and spiritual stature of the speakers this year was a great force in the conference and for the fruits of grace which I am sure in the faith, it will be for the good of the Church.

His initiative is characterized by strict obedience to the Pope and his action likely to support ...

Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia. A Catholic can not work without living in the Church of the Christian understanding of this truth. The Truth is in the Church, there is no truth outside of it and there is no Truth without Tradition.

But there is also no tradition of the Church without Communion, and this must be lived primarily with the Vicar of Christ, the Pope who guides the Church in the name of Christ himself. In addition, each service in the Church requires humility, docility to the teachings of the Pope and unconditional obedience: This is the strength of the Catholic Church ever since.

Which fruit is expected from the work he is doing?

I expect that the efforts of these years will serve to achieve peace, harmony, unity in the Church according to the Holy Father's desire for a reform of the liturgy as the Church that shares the center of Christian life and a new season of propagation Catholic faith through the ancient liturgy. I also hope that the traditional liturgy purchases equal dignity and freedom in church life without prejudice and waste: the SS. But Virgin will help us.

What about the public Pontifical Mass in St. Peter?

It was a historic event which will prepare, hopefully, the road to another event. After forty years, was celebrated for the first time in a Solemn Pontifical Mass St. Peter in the Roman rite by an archbishop, the prefect of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura, E. S Msgr. RL. Burke is a great grace of God, is the sign of a new season, is a source of consolation and hope. The traditional liturgy is alive more than ever, the Church has not forgotten.

And greet the Holy Father's Angelus?

The Holy Father with his greetings to the participants at the conference gave the seal to the grace of those days, to the great commitment and work. In the midst of an almost absolute silence of the media, the voice of the Holy Father came from heaven like confirmation: of this I believe we were all deeply and infinitely thanksgiving, make sure that we will leave him alone in this wonderful work.

No Roots by Christian 50, December 2009

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