PCED on Cardinal Rosales' Guidelines for the Use of the 1962 Missal

An excerpt from the Tablet article via Fr. Z and with his emphasis and comments:

PHILIPPINES
Cardinal accused of disobeying Pope

Robert Mickens
In Rome

THE HEAD of the Vatican’s Ecclesia Dei commission has reprimanded the Archbishop of Manila, Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales, for setting “unduly restrictive” conditions on use of the Tridentine Mass, [Again… update on the terms! No one really says "Tridentine" anymore.] saying they were “in direct contradiction” to the wishes of Pope Benedict XVI.

“Your ‘Archdiocesan Guidelines’ are simply not acceptable as they stand and I ask you to reconsider them,” said the Ecclesia Dei president, Cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos, in a letter dated 6 March and seen by The Tablet this week. It said “guidelines allowing only a monthly Mass in a chapel of [the] Metropolitan Cathedral” were in violation of the norms established in the motu proprio, “Summorum Pontificum”, issued by the Pope in 2007 for the widespread use of the Tridentine Mass. [Get this…] Cardinal Castrillón said the papal decree was “part of the universal law of the Church” and could not be limited by the “particular law” of a diocesan bishop. [This is the part that the Pope’s enemies in this matter will really hate!] The Archdiocese of Manila ministers to more than 2.8 million Catholics.

“There is simply no legitimate reason why this [Tridentine] Mass cannot and should not be celebrated in any church or chapel of your archdiocese,” Cardinal Castrillón said in his letter to the Archbishop of Manila.

[Read closely…] He insisted that Cardinal Rosales actively promote the implementation of the motu proprio by “helping priests who are desirous to learn how to celebrate” the old rite Mass, which he said only required that the priest be “reasonably competent in Latin”, [which, as WDTPRS has been saying all along, means that the priest can pronounce the words properly. We want more, of course, but that is the minimum. And what is required is sufficiency, the minimum, not expertise.] and that there were faithful [no number set… and the coetus mentioned in the Motu Proprio might be very small indeed.] who wished to assist at its celebration. The Archdiocese of Manila published the Tridentine Mass guidelines on its website last year. But they were quickly removed when supporters of the old rite protested to Rome.

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MESSAGE FOR LENT 2008 from the Archbishop of Manila

MESSAGE FOR LENT 2008

The Christian Lenten Season is a sacred forty days of prayers, abstinence and fasting that gives the individual Christian the occasion to live in his or her life the holy disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ who underwent the Passion, Death and Resurrection process in giving us all redemption from sin and evil.

Beyond the rites and liturgies of Blessed Ashes and the disciplines of the fast and religious practices, what the Lord wishes is the discipline and prayer that reach out to the good of others. This is the fasting that pleases me: free those unjustly bound, setting the oppressed free…sharing the bread with the hungry, sheltering the oppressed and the homeless, clothing the naked and not turning one’s back on one’s own (Isaiah 58:6-7).

Let us celebrate Lent with these as our guiding spirit, and we will not be far from the Peace that the Resurrection brings.

+GAUDENCIO B. CARDINAL ROSALES
Archbishop of Manila

Ash Wednesday
6 February 2008