Why not? I would think that clergy in particular would be interested in the history of their profession.

I think the nature of "vocations" has changed. The old priests were in it for life and many burned themselves out for the Lord. Many priests and even bishops today are corporate employees. They have days off, generous vacations, don't pay for housing, and insurance. They have fun money for activities many parishioners certainly can't afford. Now they have retirement benefits and are expected to retire at a certain age. Nothing wrong with having some benefits and free time to refresh and return ready to work. But there is a business mindset present and they work for a corporation. Granted, there are still some priests who are exceptions.

Speaking of the hermeneutic of rupture, an NCR journalist, James Hug, is calling for new liturgical resources to implement Pope Francis vision of immediate social and cultural change which he called for in Laudato Si since

"The liturgical resources for developing and expressing that kind of mature spiritual consciousness and growth, however, are difficult to find" and "until these materials can be developed and made widely available, the challenge given by Pope Francis to nurture this spirituality must be taken up by liturgical planners and celebrants locally."

https://www.ncronline.org/blogs/eco-catholic/laudato-si-and-liturgical-work-ahead

So, is this the next frontier in the postconciliar liturgical reform: the creation of new liturgies to complement every new papal teaching?

New! New! New! In fact, this is all so new and so urgent that we can't even wait for ICEL or the USCCB or any centralized agency to create these new liturgical resources, so let's farm this job out to the locals. Every parish can create its own liturgy to celebrate Laudato Si and Amoris Laetitia!!! How thrilling.

I believe this is what is called the balkanization of the liturgy.

In his essay, James Hug-A-Tree describes all that he does on a personal level to implement Laudato Si, and, surprise! surprise!, isn't it just incredible that I, a traditional EF Catholic, am also an organic gardener and have compost piles and recycling bins and buy my dairy and meat products from local farmers? Can you believe that an ultraconservative who loves the Latin Mass and the Baltimore Catechism also weeps about the dying coral reefs and the pesticides being dumped in the Great South Bay and even sometimes (when nobody's looking) talks to trees?

What's wrong with that picture, and how is it possible that a green/environmentalist/ sustainable gardener/anti-GMO/Monsanto/big corporations/subsidiarity-loving/avid recycler/flower child/semi-hippy like myself can be perfectly satisfied with the ancient texts and chants of the Usus Antiquior to express my love of the Creator and His magnificent works and to pray for the renewal of His creation?

Guess I don't have "mature spiritual consciousness and growth". Apparently, only progressives have the necessary credentials to pray to the Lord of Heaven and Earth for the proper care of this planet.

I tried to thank you twice, but it didn't work this time.

It was used at the funeral of the Empress Zita in place of the interlectionary chants, and it was the Mozart to boot. Gosh, how that should have been a Requiem Mass properly speaking, but to do that in that cathedral would have angered the government & indicated that maybe Vatican II wasn’t all that after all…

Votive Mass for the Stewardship of Creation

Introit: Quis est locus iste, Oosterhuis

Ordinary: Mass of Creation, Haugen

Responsorial Psalm: Haec dies quam fecit Dominus, Willan, arr. Walker

Offertory: Deus multorum nominum Farrell

Communion: Unus spiritui sumus Wise

Spot on, tomjaw. And just think of all the paper this new liturgical enterprise will consume.

Speaking of trees reminds me of this tongue twister from the Gospel reading a couple of weeks ago:

Omnis arbor bona fructus bonos facit mala autem arbor fructus malos facit non potest arbor bona fructus malos facere neque arbor mala fructus.

I dare you to say that twice as fast as you can.

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