Julie
I think Fr. Hunwicke's letter was written for an entirely different audience...

Clowns will be a tame addition in the Nu version! Maybe the GIRM for that one will include 'rubrics' for the proper shades of make-up.

Chonak,

You who? You, too? Or You two?

To wit, to woo. A merry note.

oh no.

You who?

The 'Yoo Hoo" song - you who dwell...

I guess if they really want relevance, it will be "sup dude - yeah dude."

I was not expecting good things from this pope to begin with. I have read that he left a trail of chaos in his previous position that would take 20 years to straighten out.

I wonder if this ties in with something Cardinal Marx said recently which struck me as odd at the time.

He was in the news rejoicing that Pope Francis' correction of Cardinal Sarah had vindicated the position of the German bishops' conference. Dismissing Liturgiam Authenticam as a "dead end, the Cardinal conceded that there was "no rush" for a new German translation of the Missal, and that the 1970's translation "wasn't that bad".

It seemed a bit strange that Cardinal Marx wouldn't be immediately out in front demanding a new, improved translation of the Novus Ordo after the German bishops' bitter battles with Ecclesia Celebrans and Pope Benedict over translations.

However, did Cardinal Marx know that a brand-new, shiny, ecumenical Mass was in the works, making the Novus Ordo a moot point? Why waste time making another translation when the Novus Ordo will soon be obsolete?

Is that also why a gleeful Cardinal Kasper has advised everyone to be ready for some more "surprises" and why Cardinal Marx says he has worked and prayed for years for a united church of Catholics and Protestants and is calling for "the reunification of the Christian Churches"?

...the rot...

There should have been no suprise to unwitting faithful. Had the Church been alert and well-led the outcome might have been more pleasing. But no, the rot was and has been there since before the recent council. It did not just happen in a vacuum, but was waiting in the wings. The unwitting council merely provided unintended coverage for what, considering that the council said A and all went home and did B, was an effective coup d'etat d'eglise. Rarely has a coup gone so smoothly and wrought such a transformation - and it isn't over. At our peril do we think that historical events happen and are over. Rather, they are processes which unfold over time - even much time. Nor can we stanch the flow by sticking a finger here and there in the leaky dike. A total and absolute housecleaning (which will never happen) is the only cure. If H.F. Benedict didn't do it no one will.

Chris is correct.
The pity is that -
if Benedict didn't do it no one will.

I find that I disagree with your assessment of how long it will take to fix.

They could celebrate a Pontifical High Mass with as much duplicity as when they accepted the oath against modernism of Pius X. Those externals do not change the interior dispositions. They just retreat below the surface and plot and scheme.

I doubt that there will ever be another Benedict.

We can always hope there will be a pope like Jude Law! :D

The saddest thing of all is to think that, under Pope Benedict, two undersecretaries in the CDW, Msgr Grenesche and Fr. Anthony Ward, were apparently preparing a revival of Gregorian chant as mandated in the motu proprio, Quaerit semper:

In present circumstances it has seemed appropriate for the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments to focus mainly on giving a fresh impetus to promoting the Sacred Liturgy in the Church, in accordance with the renewal that the Second Vatican Council desired, on the basis of the Constitution Sacrosanctum Concilium.

In May, 2011, Maestro Fulvio Rampi, a noted schola director in Cremona gave a seminal address in which he explained how the plan for liturgical renewal by Pope Benedict's CDW as it was envisioned and mandated since the time of Pope Pius X had never been implemented:

Monsignor Juan-Miguel Ferrer Grenesche, undersecretary of the congregation for divine worship, made a thorough review of the magisterium of the Church in matters of sacred music, from the 1903 motu proprio "Tra le sollecitudini" of Pius X until today.

The conclusion that Ferrer drew from this is that a "clear and precise" magisterium in this regard has been given. But it has been widely disobeyed and contradicted. And the blame has in part belonged to the hierarchy of the Church.

The Church spoke – Ferrer noted – but lacked "a concrete intention to have the discipline in effect applied by those who had responsibility in the matter."

So then, in regard to this sin of omission attributable in large part to the congregation for divine worship of which he himself is part, Ferrer has announced that it is being remedied.

So a new office was established to promote the development and use of appropriate liturgical art, architecture and music and that would

finally apply, all over the world, the prescriptions of the Church unheeded until now, the rebirth of Gregorian chant first among them.

The office was scheduled to be operational in the beginning of 2013.

So, evidently, careful plans for the official revival of Gregorian chant had been devised and carried out and were on the verge of being implemented when Pope Benedict suddenly and inexplicably resigned.

The Ratzingerians would apparently never dream of imposing their version of liturgical renewal willy-nilly upon the Church. Their approach is cautious, careful and gradual---so gradual as to be almost imperceptible.

The Bergoglians, on the other hand, waste no time on the niceties. They drive their programs through with little regard for sensibilities or long-held beliefs and practices.

Whose vision will prevail in the long term? That is the question. It seems to me that the original Liturgical Movement is kind of like a coil, or spring, that keeps being pushed back into its box but is slowly growing in size and momentum so that someday it will be impossible to suppress and will suddenly burst into bloom.

That's my hope, anyway.

Indeed, even though sometimes the imbecility has been other than knavish!

@Vilyanor will this do...