Source: https://forum.ordoevangelistarum.com/t/summorum-pontificum/100
Timestamp: 2018-11-16 12:48:10
Document Index: 120787763

Matched Legal Cases: ['§4', 'Art. 7', 'Art. 5', '§1', 'Art. 8', 'Art. 11']

Summorum Pontificum - Religious Texts - Ordo Evangelistarum
ThomasLewis 2018-02-17 04:22:35 UTC #1
hf_ben-xvi_motu-proprio_20070707_summorum-pontificum.pdf (124.9 KB)
As from time immemorial, so too in the future, it is necessary to maintain the principle that “each particular Church must be in accord with the universal Church not only regarding the doctrine of the faith and sacramental signs, but also as to the usages universally received from apostolic and unbroken tradition. These are to be observed not only so that errors may be avoided, but also that the faith may be handed on in its integrity, since the Church’s rule of prayer ( lex orandi ) corresponds to her rule of faith ( lex credendi ).” [1]
In some regions, however, not a few of the faithful continued to be attached with such love and affection to the earlier liturgical forms which had deeply shaped their culture and spirit, that in 1984 Pope John Paul II, concerned for their pastoral care, through the special Indult Quattuor Abhinc Annos issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship, granted the faculty of using the Roman Missal published in 1962 by Blessed John XXIII. Again in 1988, John Paul II, with the Motu Proprio Ecclesia Dei , exhorted bishops to make broad and generous use of this faculty on behalf of all the faithful who sought it.
§4 Priests using the Missal of Blessed John XXIII must be qualified ( idonei ) and not prevented by law.
Art. 7. If a group of the lay faithful, as mentioned in Art. 5, §1, has not been granted its requests by the parish priest, it should inform the diocesan bishop. The bishop is earnestly requested to satisfy their desire. If he does not wish to provide for such celebration, the matter should be referred to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei .
Art. 8. A bishop who wishes to provide for such requests of the lay faithful, but is prevented by various reasons from doing so, can refer the matter to the Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei , which will offer him counsel and assistance.
Art. 11. The Pontifical Commission Ecclesia Dei , established in 1988 by Pope John Paul II [5], continues to exercise its function. The Commission is to have the form, duties and regulations that the Roman Pontiff will choose to assign to it.