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Sunday 23 March 2008

Fr Cantalmessa's Sermon

For reasons that escape me, there has been some objection to this magnificent sermon.
The objections can only come, it seems to me, from those who misunderstand the meaning of ecumenism, or more specifically who accept the misunderstanding of true ecumenism that those suffering some kind of contact high of the Spirit of VCII have promoted, (the one that would compromise truth for the sake of unity.)
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“Loving,” it has been said, “does not mean looking at each other but looking together in the same direction.” Even among Christians loving means looking in the same direction, which is Christ. “He is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). It is like the spokes of a wheel. Consider what happens to the spokes of a wheel when they move from the center outward: as they distance themselves from the center they also become more distant from each other. On the contrary when they move from the periphery toward the center, the closer they come to the center they also come nearer to each other, until they form a single point. To the extent that we move together toward Christ, we draw nearer to each other, until we are truly, as Jesus desired, “one with him and with the Father.”
http://www.zenit.org/article-22128?l=english
(This might almost seem like a veiled argument for ad orientem celebration :oP, not to mention the rest of the sermon which, in its "seamless garment" woven in one piece from TOP to bottom, is supportive of a right ordering of all aspects of our Faith, which is hierarchical)

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