Omitting or Despising Approved Rites (Council of Trent)
Apr 4, 2023 10:57:06 GMT -5
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Post by Pacelli on Apr 4, 2023 10:57:06 GMT -5
The following is the text of Canon 13 from the Sacraments in General, from the Session VII of Council of Trent, dated March 3, 1547:
Commentary on the Canon
If anyone says that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, accustomed to be used in the administration of the sacraments, may be despised or omitted by the ministers without sin and at their pleasure or may be changed by any pastor of the churches, to other new ones, let him be anathema. (H.J. Schroeder translation, linked HERE )
Commentary on the Canon
94. The meaning of this first paragraph of the rubrics and the obligation imposed by the canon of the Council of Trent here cited have been noticed in the preceding chapter (Ed. note: I urge the reader to read that entire lengthy chapter which explains all of this in even greater detail). The rubric itself, it will be seen, here asserts that what the ritual prescribes regarding the sacraments is taken from the ancient established usage of the Catholic Church, the decrees of the Sovereign Pontiffs, and the sacred canons. This is substantially the same as what is asserted in the bull Apostolicae Sedi; viz., that the ritual contains the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church.
95. The canon of Trent is thus immediately and directly applied to the rites prescribed in this ritual to be observed in the solemn administration of the sacraments.
These rites, therefore, "may not be contemned, or without sin, or omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be changed by every pastor of the churches into new ones."
96. It is evident that to maintain the proposition condemned by the Canon of Trent would be implicitly to maintain that the Church has not power to institute ceremonies or require their service under the pain of sin which is an error in faith.
(Notes on the Rubrics of the Roman Ritual Regarding the Sacraments in General, O'Kane, James, 1883, pp. 32-33. All emphasis in italics from the original, all boldfacing added. The book is scanned and available for free on archive.org linked HERE )
95. The canon of Trent is thus immediately and directly applied to the rites prescribed in this ritual to be observed in the solemn administration of the sacraments.
These rites, therefore, "may not be contemned, or without sin, or omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be changed by every pastor of the churches into new ones."
96. It is evident that to maintain the proposition condemned by the Canon of Trent would be implicitly to maintain that the Church has not power to institute ceremonies or require their service under the pain of sin which is an error in faith.
(Notes on the Rubrics of the Roman Ritual Regarding the Sacraments in General, O'Kane, James, 1883, pp. 32-33. All emphasis in italics from the original, all boldfacing added. The book is scanned and available for free on archive.org linked HERE )