Father Thomas J. Rosica, CSB showed up recently at the "Daily Mass" on television in Toronto.
Shall we take a look?
Here is our good priest at the 19:37 minute mark right after the consecration of the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He is bowing.
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Here he is at 20:11 after the elevation of the chalice containing the Precious Blood of Our Lord.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJnUQyv8Jc
Has Father Tom hurt his back? Perhaps his knees are bad?
Or, could this the famous, "Francis Effect?"
No, I'm sure he has hurt his back or his knees.
In the video below at this link; you will note that, even under the old and incorrect translation, our advisor to the Bishop of Rome took liberty and changed the words of the Mass, relegating it as "llicit."
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqKJkcptsV8
Father Rosica is one who frequently cites and praises the Second Vatican Council. Shall we look and see what Paragraph 23.3 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctam Concilium, the first document issued by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council has to say about this?
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I hope he gets well soon.
Shall we take a look?
Here is our good priest at the 19:37 minute mark right after the consecration of the Body of Our Lord Jesus Christ. He is bowing.
Here he is at 20:11 after the elevation of the chalice containing the Precious Blood of Our Lord.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICJnUQyv8Jc
Has Father Tom hurt his back? Perhaps his knees are bad?
Or, could this the famous, "Francis Effect?"
No, I'm sure he has hurt his back or his knees.
In the video below at this link; you will note that, even under the old and incorrect translation, our advisor to the Bishop of Rome took liberty and changed the words of the Mass, relegating it as "llicit."
"These gifts of bread and wine be acceptable to God our Father in heaven."At the time, the translation was"...that our sacrifice may be acceptable to God, the almighty Father" and is now rendered correctly as "...my sacrifice and yours..."
Father Rosica is one who frequently cites and praises the Second Vatican Council. Shall we look and see what Paragraph 23.3 of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctam Concilium, the first document issued by the Fathers of the Second Vatican Council has to say about this?
22.3 Therefore no other person, even if he be a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.
St. John Paul II ordered the disciplinary Instruction, Redemptionis Sacramentum, to be enacted which states emphatically:
59. The reprobated practice by which priests, deacons or the faithful here and there alter or vary at will the texts of the Sacred Liturgy that they are charged to pronounce, must cease. For in doing thus, they render the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy unstable, and not infrequently distort the authentic meaning of the Liturgy.
We also find in the General Instruction of the Roman Missal, the very Missal of 2002 now in use, the following:
Nevertheless, the priest must remember that he is the servant of the Sacred Liturgy and that he himself is not permitted, on his own initiative, to add, to remove, or to change anything in the celebration of Mass. [GIRM§ 24]
The GIRM in the Third Edition of the Roman Missal also states:
42. The gestures and posture of the priest, the deacon, and the ministers, as well as those of the people, ought to contribute to making the entire celebration resplendent with beauty and noble simplicity, so that the true and full meaning of the different parts of the celebration is evident and that the participation of all is fostered.[52] Therefore, attention should be paid to what is determined by this General Instruction and the traditional practice of the Roman Rite and to what serves the common spiritual good of the People of God, rather than private inclination or arbitrary choice. [§42]Perhaps Father Rosica has hurt his back, or his knees.
I hope he gets well soon.