tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036339350205391290.post6744130299783836520..comments2023-11-27T09:14:18.383-06:00Comments on Old St. Patrick Oratory - Kansas City, Missouri - Community News: The Mansion of the Past has been ReopenedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036339350205391290.post-35099576621901343812008-10-13T15:27:00.000-05:002008-10-13T15:27:00.000-05:00This comment above is essentially correct, which i...This comment above is essentially correct, which is to say that I agree with it. It is a striking fact that nothing in the Council itself was revolutionary. Looking from the outside in, you would be shock to know that, since it seems that nearly everything changed in fact.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13619870662520618246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4036339350205391290.post-63446983794250587342008-10-13T14:54:00.000-05:002008-10-13T14:54:00.000-05:00Is there not a hint of the Hegelian dialectic in S...Is there not a hint of the Hegelian dialectic in Summorum Pontificum with the new Mass as the thesis, the old Mass as the antithesis, and the growing together of the two as the higher synthesis? The Pope does assume that each will influence the other. He certainly reveres the old Mass for its trancendent quality but has no truck with those who declare the new Mass to be Protestant. The old is certainly God centred, the new man centred, but in a sense both can supply what the other does not emphasise.<BR/><BR/>It can be argued that the Second Council of the Vatican was less revolutionary than the First, altered nothing in doctrine, and intended merely to restore the liturgy by judicious pruning to an earlier pristine state. However what was actually decided by the Council and what so many mistakenly perceived it to have decided were quite different. The Council was no more a breach in continuity than was its predecessor which Newman thought was not necessary.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com