JQ 033 - St. Teresa Benedicta Solves the Liturgical Debate

The philosophical presupposition of the liturgical debate in the Latin rite.

1. The Industrial Revolution deracinates the Latin rite

   1. Laity are left uncatechised and ignorant of their fathers’ liturgical piety

2. The philosophical question at the heart of the debate

   1. What is “the prayer of the Church”? Is it “the prayer of the clergy” at the liturgy?

   2. Guéranger: a clericalist conception?1

3. Fatima taught Eucharistic Reparation in 1916 (“The Liturgical Problem is Much Deeper than the Novus Ordo”)

4. St. Teresa Benedicta embodies the prayer of the Church2

5. St. Teresa Benedicta on “The Prayer of the Church”3

6. The Authentic Teaching of Vatican II on the Mystical Life4

   1. Joseph Ratzinger on “active participation”5

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