The Once And Future Roman Rite Returning To The Traditional Latin Liturgy After Seventy Years Of Exile Dr Peter Kwasniewski by Dr. Peter Kwasniewski instant download after payment.

Yet Kwasniewski’s UNESCO proposal is a sardonic joke, not only because he appeals to an entity that is unimaginably removed from any religion, but also because the United Nations nevertheless can muster more understanding for the precious nature of liturgy than the institutions that are charged with protecting it! What this scholar, who has placed his entire life under the sign of the traditional liturgy, knows better than Marcel Proust and Oscar Wilde is that the undeniable beauty and superabundant cultural riches that can be found in the old rites are just external side effects of something that is a mystery for modern aesthetes: the truth. And truth does not need the protection of being housed in a museum but rather demands living witness. The communities dedicated to the old rite have understood this. The pope and his functionaries, on the contrary, with all their arguments (such as they are), don’t even seem to approach this reality.

Thus, for decades now, we have been at cross-purposes. In the conflict over liturgy, the power and the truth stand on different sides. Will the abundance of knowledge, of wisdom, of prayer already brought to bear in favor of the truth of divine liturgy one day tip the scales—will the emptiness of power become obvious? Whoever inclines to pessimism in this regard (for, in principle, so many things argue for that) should ask himself another question: Would he be ready, if the Roman enemies of the traditional liturgy permanently prevail, to acquiesce—to give up the struggle and accept Pope Paul’s Novus Ordo? The author of this book has settled this question as it concerns himself; you will find his answer in these pages.

Martin Mosebach