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Condemnation
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Antiquarianism refers to the
modernists quest to 'restore' the Church to a 'primitive form'
that better corresponds with Protestant sensibilities,
not
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Traditionalists attempts to restore the traditional Latin
('Tridentine') Mass and pre-Vatican II practices. In fact,
the 'reduction to antiquity' of the Modernists and the restoration
sought by the Traditionalists are diametrically opposed. The
'reducing to antiquity' of the Modernists has been condemned by
the popes - whereas true faithfulness to tradition has always been
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"But
it is neither wise nor laudable to reduce everything to antiquity
by every possible device. Thus, to cite some instances, one would
be straying from the straight path were he to wish the altar
restored to its primitive table form; were he to want black
excluded as a color for the liturgical vestments; were he to
forbid the use of sacred images and statues in churches; were he
to order the crucifix so designed that the divine Redeemer's body
shows no trace of His cruel sufferings; and lastly were he to
disdain and reject polyphonic music or singing in parts, even
where it conforms to regulations issued by the Holy See."
(Pope Pius XII, "Mediator Dei", 1947 A.D.)
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God is
Unchangeable
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"God
is not man that he should speak falsely, nor human, that he should
change his mind. Is he one to speak and not act, to decree and not
fulfill?" (Num. 23:19)
"Of
old you laid the earth's foundations; the heavens are the
work of your hands. They perish, but you remain; they all
wear out like a garment; Like clothing you change them and
they are changed, but you are the same, your years have no end."
(Ps. 102:26-28)
"He
plumbs the depths and penetrates the heart; their innermost being
he understands. The Most High possesses all knowledge, and sees
from of old the things that are to come: He makes known the past
and the future, and reveals the deepest secrets. No understanding
does he lack; no single thing escapes him. Perennial is his
almighty wisdom; he is from all eternity one and the same, with
nothing added, nothing taken away; no need of a counselor for him!"
(Sirach 42:18-22)
"Even
to your old age I am the same, even when your hair is gray I will
bear you; It is I who have done this, I who will continue, and I
who will carry you to safety." (Isa. 46:4)
"Surely
I, the LORD, do not change, nor do you cease to be sons of Jacob."
(Mal. 3:6)
"Jesus
Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever." (Heb. 13:8)
"Do
not be deceived, my beloved brothers: all good giving and every
perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights,
with whom there is no alteration or shadow caused by change."
(Jms. 1:16-17)
"Though
all things pass God does not change." (St. Teresa of Avila,
Doctor of the Church)
"Consider
seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is to be
had in them; and hold fast to God, who does not change." (St.
Teresa of Avila, Doctor of the Church)
"Eternity itself is the substance of God,
which has nothing that is changeable. There is nothing there that
is past, as if it were no longer; nothing there is future, as if
it not yet were. There is nothing there except 'is'." (St.
Augustine, Doctor of the Church, c. 5th century A.D.)
"Christ
is the teacher and the exemplar of all sanctity, and to His standard
must all those conform who wish for eternal life. Nor does Christ
know any change as the ages pass, 'for He is yesterday and today and
the same forever. (Hebrews xiii, 8)" (Pope Leo XIII, "Testem
Benevolentiae Nostrae", 1899)
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Gregorian
Chant
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"The
Church recognizes Gregorian chant as being specially suited to the
Roman liturgy. Therefore, other things being equal, it should be
given pride of place in liturgical services." (Second Vatican
Council)
"[T]he
more closely a composition for church approaches in its movement,
inspiration and savor the Gregorian form, the more sacred and
liturgical it becomes; and the more out of harmony it is with that
supreme model, the less worthy it is of the temple. The ancient
traditional Gregorian Chant must, therefore, in a large measure be
restored to the functions of public worship, and the fact must be
accepted by all that an ecclesiastical function loses none of its
solemnity when accompanied by this music alone."
(Pope St. Pius X, "Inter Sollicitudines", 1903)
"A Catholic should regard his liturgy with
pietas. He should revere, and therefore fear to abandon the
prayers and postures and music that have been approved by so many
saints throughout the Christian era and delivered to us as a
precious heritage. To go no further: the illusion that we can
replace the Gregorian chant, with its inspired hymns and rhythms,
by equally fine, if not better, music betrays a ridiculous
self-assurance and lack of self-knowledge." (Von
Hildebrand)
"As regards music, let the clear and
guiding norms of the Apostolic See be scrupulously observed.
Gregorian chant, which the Roman Church considers her own as
handed down from antiquity and kept under her close tutelage, is
proposed to the faithful as belonging to them also. In certain
parts of the liturgy the Church definitely prescribes it; it makes
the celebration of the sacred mysteries not only more dignified
and solemn but helps very much to increase the faith and devotion
of the congregation." (Pope Pius XII, "Mediator Dei", 1947
A.D.)
"And
if in Catholic churches throughout the entire world Gregorian
chant sounds forth without corruption or diminution, the chant
itself, like the sacred Roman liturgy, will have a characteristic
of universality, so that the faithful, wherever they may be, will
hear music that is familiar to them and a part of their own home.
In this way they may experience, with much spiritual consolation,
the wonderful unity of the Church. This is one of the most
important reasons why the Church so greatly desires that the
Gregorian chant traditionally associated with the Latin words of
the sacred liturgy be used." (Pope Pius XII, "Musicae
Sacrae", 1955 A.D.)
"It
is the duty of all those to whom Christ the Lord has entrusted the
task of guarding and dispensing the Church's riches to preserve
this precious treasure of Gregorian chant diligently and to impart
it generously to the Christian people. Hence what Our
predecessors, St. Pius X, who is rightly called the renewer of
Gregorian chant, and Pius XI have wisely ordained and taught, We
also, in view of the outstanding qualities which genuine Gregorian
chant possesses, will and prescribe that this be done. In the
performance of the sacred liturgical rites this same Gregorian
chant should be most widely used and great care should be taken
that it should be performed properly, worthily and reverently. And
if, because of recently instituted feast days, new Gregorian
melodies must be composed, this should be done by true masters of
the art. It should be done in such a way that these new
compositions obey the laws proper to genuine Gregorian chant and
are in worthy harmony with the older melodies in their virtue and
purity." (Pope Pius XII, "Musicae
Sacrae", 1955 A.D.)
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Sacred
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"The
image is the book of those who cannot read, and even the learned
may gain more from an instant's gazing at an eloquent picture than
from the prolonged study of many volumes." (Dom Gueranger)
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Sacred
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"The
musical tradition of the universal Church is a treasure of
inestimable value, greater even than that of any other art."
(Second Vatican Council)
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Stability
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"Truth is essentially unchangeable. But man
is very changeable. The stability of all great and good things is
a high value. Growth, in the sense of the increase of our love for
God...is a heightening and a deepening in which everything which was there before lives
on and does not disappear. But what is important to us here is the
value of stability as opposed to change, as far as it is a matter
of something good and beautiful. As soon as disvalue comes into
question, then change - indeed the complete elimination of the
disvalue - is a great value. But let us now remain in the sphere
of the good and the beautiful. The structure of the whole
liturgical year and the Tridentine Mass was something great and
wonderful. It was of greatest pastoral importance as a way of
drawing us up from the whole mediocrity of everyday life, indeed
from the finite and worldly sphere into the world of supernatural
mystery, into the world of Christ. Here the thought of a change
and reform is meaningless. This is not only because we live in a
time in which the talent for the formation of the liturgy is very
weak, as we already mentioned, but also because this work has been
entrusted to 'experts', and not to men who are filled with great
reverence for that which has been handed down to us from earlier,
glorious times - indeed entrusted to men who base their work on a
false diagnosis of our time, on the myth of 'modern man.' But
what we want to emphasize here is the value of stability, the
value which lies in praying in the same way in which the saints
and 'homines religioisi' of the past prayed...
[C]hanging
for the sake of change is not only an infantile procedure, but
leads to a disastrous confusion in its pedagogical effects"
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The
Substance of the Sacraments is Unchangeable
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"[I]t
is well known that to the Church there belongs no right whatsoever
to innovate anything touching on the substance of the
sacraments" (Pope St. Pius X, "Ex quo", 1910 A.D.)
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Unchange-
ableness
of Dogmas |
"...that
progress of dogmas...is, in reality, nothing but the corruption of
dogmas." (Pope St.
Pius X, "Lamentabili Sane", 1907)
"If
anyone says that it is possible that at some time, given the
advancement of knowledge, a sense may be assigned to the dogmas
propounded by the Church which is different from that which the
Church has understood and understands: let him be anathema."
(First Vatican Council)
"[T]hings
that are of natural law vary according to the various states and
conditions of men; although those which naturally pertain to
things Divine nowise vary." (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of
the Church and "greatest theologian in the history of the
Church")
"The
Holy Spirit was not promised to the successor of Peter that by the
revelation of the Holy Spirit they might disclose new doctrine,
but that by His help they might guard sacredly the revelation
transmitted through the Apostles and the deposit of faith, and
might faithfully set it forth." (First Vatican Council)
"For
the doctrine of the faith which God has revealed is put forward
not as some philosophical discovery capable of being perfected by
human intelligence, but as a divine deposit committed to the
spouse of Christ to be faithfully protected and infallibly
promulgated. Hence, too, that meaning of the sacred dogmas is ever
to be maintained which has once been declared by Holy Mother
Church, and there must never be any abandonment of this sense
under the pretext or in the name of a more profound understanding.
May understanding, knowledge and wisdom increase as ages and
centuries roll along, and greatly and vigorously flourish, in each
and all, in the individual and the whole church: but this only in
its own proper kind, that is to say, in the same doctrine, the
same sense, and the same understanding." (First Vatican
Council)
"Finally,
I declare that I am completely opposed to the error of the
modernists who hold that there is nothing divine in sacred
tradition; or what is far worse, say that there is, but in a
pantheistic sense, with the result that there would remain nothing
but this plain simple fact - one to be put on a par with the
ordinary facts of history - the fact, namely, that a group of men
by their own labor, skill, and talent have continued through
subsequent ages a school begun by Christ and his apostles. I
firmly hold, then, and shall hold to my dying breath the belief of
the Fathers in the charism of truth, which certainly is, was, and
always will be in the succession of the episcopacy from the
apostles. The purpose of this is, then, not that dogma may be
tailored according to what seems better and more suited to the
culture of each age; rather, that the absolute and immutable truth
preached by the apostles from the beginning may never be believed
to be different, may never be understood in any other way."
(Pope St. Pius X, Oath Against Modernism, 1910 A.D.)
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"The
honest restoration of a well-proven past [is] the best guarantee
of a tranquil future." (Fr.
Dulac, as quoted by Davies)
"In the Catholic Church care
must be taken that we may hold fast to that which has been
believed everywhere, always, and by all ['quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab
omnibus']" (Attr.
St. Vincent of Lerins, c. 434 A.D.)
"When
[the Church] judges she cannot accept certain changes, it is
because she knows she is bound by Christ's manner of acting. Her
attitude, despite appearances, is therefore not one of archaism
but of fidelity" (Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the
Faith, as confirmed by Pope Paul VI)
"When
the obligation of thus keeping up certain days of preparation
previous to festivals is strictly maintained by a people, it is a
sign that faith is still living amongst them; it proves they
understand the greatness of that which the holy ['Tridentine'] liturgy possesses
to their homage." (Liturgical Year)
"But
in order that philosophy may be bound equal to the gathering of
those precious fruits which we have indicated, it behooves it
above all things never to turn aside from that path which the
Fathers have entered upon from a venerable antiquity, and which
the [First] Vatican Council solemnly and authoritatively
approved." (Pope Leo XIII, "Aeterni Patris", 1879
A.D.)
"Can.
1164 § 1 Ordinaries shall take care, even hearing, if need be,
the advice of experts, that in the building or refurbishing of
churches, the forms received from Christian tradition and the laws
of sacred art are observed. § 2. In a church there shall be no
entrance or window opening into the house of laity; those places
under the floor of the church, if there are any, shall not be used
for merely profane use." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"...Christ
the Son of God first promulgated with his own mouth, and then
commanded to be preached by his apostles to every creature as the
source of ever saving truth and of instruction in morals, and
clearly perceiving that this truth and instruction are contained
in the written books and in the unwritten traditions, which have
been received by the apostles from Christ himself, or from the
apostles themselves, at the dictation of the Holy Spirit..."
(Council of Trent)
"Can.
1261 § 1 Local Ordinaries shall be vigilant that the
prescriptions of the sacred canons on divine cult be scrupulously
observed, and especially lest there be introduced in divine cult,
whether public or private, or in the daily life of the faithful,
any superstitious practice or that in any way there be admitting
something alien to the faith or inconsistent with ecclesiastic
tradition or anything looking like a sort of profit." (1917
Code of Canon Law)
"Can.
1323 § 1 All of those things are to be believed with a divine and
Catholic faith that are contained in the written word of God or in
tradition and that the Church proposes and worthy of belief, as
divinely revealed, whether by solemn judgment or by her ordinary
and universal magisterium. § 2 it belongs to an Ecumenical
Council or to the Roman Pontiff speaking from the chair to
pronounce solemnly this sort of judgement. § 3 A thing is not
understood as dogmatically defined or declared unless this is
manifestly established." (1917 Code of Canon Law)
"Thus,
in order to remove the double evil from the Church, We must return
to that method from which some, setting themselves up in the
Church as wiser, have insolently and imprudently led the faithful
away for some time. We think that the Roman Catechism should be
offered to the priests again so that just as it once strengthened
the Catholic faith and strengthened the minds of the faithful in
the Church's teaching which is the pillar of truth, it may now
turn them away from new ideas which neither antiquity nor
unanimity recommend... We now strongly recommend it [the Roman
Catechism] to you, venerable brothers. We strongly encourage you
to order that everybody who has the care of souls should use it in
instructing the faithful in the Catholic truth in order to
preserve unity of learning, charity, and harmony of spirits. For
it is your duty to be attentive to everybody's serenity. Finally,
it is the bishop's duty to watch carefully that nobody breaks the
bond of unity and creates schisms by proudly acting in his own
interests." (Pope Clement XIII, "In Dominico Agro", 1761
A.D.)
"[H]uman
law is rightly changed, in so far as such change is conducive to
the commonweal. But, to a certain extent, the mere change of law
is of itself prejudicial to the common good: because custom avails
much for the observance of laws, seeing that what is done contrary
to general custom, even in slight matters, is looked upon as
grave. Consequently, when a law is changed, the binding power of
the law is diminished, in so far as custom is abolished. Wherefore
human law should never be changed, unless, in some way or other,
the commonweal be compensated according to the extent of the harm
done in this respect. Such compensation may arise either from some
very great and every evident benefit conferred by the new
enactment; or from the extreme urgency of the case, due to the
fact that either the existing law is clearly unjust, or its
observance extremely harmful. Wherefore the jurist says (Pandecta
Justinum liber i, ff, title iv, De Constit. Princip.) that 'in
establishing new laws, there should be evidence of the benefit to
be derived, before departing from a law which has long been
considered just.'" (St. Thomas Aquinas, Doctor of the Church
and "greatest theologian in the history of the
Church")
"And
so the rule of language which the Church has established through
the long labor of centuries, with the help of the Holy Spirit, and
which she has confirmed with the authority of the Councils, and
which has more than once been the watchword and banner of orthodox
faith, is to be religiously preserved, and no one may presume to
change it at his own pleasure or under the pretext of new
knowledge. Who would ever tolerate that the dogmatic formulas used
by the ecumenical councils for the mysteries of the Holy Trinity
and the Incarnation be judged as no longer appropriate for men of
our times, and let others be rashly substituted for them? In the
same way, it cannot be tolerated that any individual should on his
own authority take something away from the formulas which were
used by the Council of Trent to propose the Eucharistic Mystery
for our belief. These formulas - like the others that the Church
used to propose the dogmas of faith - express concepts that are not
tied to a certain specific form of human culture, or to a certain
level of scientific progress, or to one or another theological
school. Instead they set forth what the human mind grasps of
reality through necessary and universal experience and what it
expresses in apt and exact words, whether it be in ordinary or
more refined language. For this reason, these formulas are adapted
to all men of all times and all places. They can, it is true, be
made clearer and more obvious; and doing this is of great benefit.
But it must always be done in such a way that they retain the
meaning in which they have been used, so that with the advance of
an understanding of the faith, the truth of faith will remain
unchanged. For it is the teaching of the First Vatican Council
that 'the meaning that Holy Mother the Church has once declared,
is to be retained forever, and no pretext of deeper understanding
ever justifies any deviation from that meaning.'" (Pope Paul
VI, 1965 A.D.)
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