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The following quote is an excerpt from a "guest piece" titled Lest We Forget; The Problem of 'Alternative' Liturgical Movements posted on The New Liturgical Movement [ thenewliturgicalmovement.blogspot.com] website. You can read the full article there, but I wanted to post the section dealing with the "neo-latinization" movement currently found within the Eastern Catholic Churches. Neo-Latinizations within Eastern Liturgical Rites
Even the Eastern Catholic liturgical rites are not unscathed by this problem. There has been a kind of �neo-Latinization� that has occurred within sectors of it. Vatican II was supposed to have gotten rid of the Latinizations that had crept into the Eastern Catholic rites, thereby helping them to reclaim their own distinctive liturgical expressions and spirituality. While the Eastern Catholics did get rid of the �Tridentine� sort of Latinizations that had become characteristic in many of their churches in the pre-conciliar era, a number of them in turn accepted many of the more imprudent elements of and ideas behind the Latin rite post-conciliar liturgical reforms -- such as celebrating Mass �ad populum� (among the Maronites, Malabars and Ethiopian Catholics) and the drastic curtailing and simplification of rites (among the Malabars and, more recently, the Chaldeans). Of course, these were not presented as �Latinizations�, but as recovery of the authentic praxis of the heritage of early Christian worship common to all rites! (A highly recognizable theme for many Latin rite Catholics of course.)
Recently there has been turmoil in the Byzantine-rite Ruthenian Metropolia of the USA over a new official translation of the Divine Liturgy that is alleged to contain inclusive language and truncations of the Divine Liturgy itself. Not a few Ruthenian Catholics in America have converted to Orthodoxy because of the controversy. Some Byzantine-rite Catholics are also experimenting with ad populum Divine Liturgies and even altar girls. Your thoughts?
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The article left out Eucharistic ministers and vigil Masses. What's this about facing the people? Has anyone heard this is happening in the Pittsburgh metropolia?
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What does "ad populum" mean? 
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Actually, I may have coined the expression "neo-Latinization" about 35 years ago, when I noticed the fashion for imitating the then-new fads in Roman Catholic liturgical praxis. In some places this has run riot; in other places there is a healthy reaction against it.
I grieve to report that one can easily find Syrian Catholic churches with the Qurbono celebrated facing in the wrong direction - but, mercifully, this is not true in the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church.
Much of this has to do, as always, with the poor education given to our clerics and monastics. There have been repeated statements about the importance of authentic theological education thoroughly consistent with our genuine traditons - and hierarchs keep sending our theological students to Roman Catholic faculties, with predictable results. So far the best resistance seems to have come from some important Ukrainian Greek-Catholic centers, including particularly the Ukrainian Catholic University in L'viv and the Metropolitan Andrew (Sheptytsky) Institute at Saint Paul's University, Ottawa.
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What does "ad populum" mean? It refers to "Mass facing the people". Dn. Robert
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What does "ad populum" mean? It refers to "Mass facing the people". Dn. Robert Thanks!
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Is the term "latinization" accurate?
All these abuses (altar girls, guitars, mass facing the people, inclusive language) are alien to the true Latin Tradition, and are the result of a decadent liturgical trend in the west which are also quite anti-Latin themselves.
Therefore, I would rather call them "Novus-Ordization".
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Unless other things are meant by "Latinize", I would have to support Mexican on this one. The Anglican-use high mass I attend has none the "Latinizations" of altar girls, modern instrumentation, and people-facing consecrations.
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[quote=Serge Keleher][/quote]
Bingo again Fr. Serge.
It will take years to sort out our own liturgical tradition in the Latin Church. It might even be a half a century before we "really" implement the Mass of Vatican II as it was meant to be.
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The article left out Eucharistic ministers and vigil Masses. What's this about facing the people? Has anyone heard this is happening in the Pittsburgh metropolia? Oh, I'm sure that if that happened we would hear (read) about it on byzcath first! We've already heard so much about the Vigil Liturgies (Vigil Masses - Vespergies...whatever), I haven't heard anything about 'ad populum' liturgies being celebrated anywhere in the Pittsburgh Metropolia, and hopefully WON'T hear (or read) anything like that in the future!!!
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Thanks - it's always nice to be appreciated!
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Dear all,
Thank you for discussing my essay. I appreciate it.
I didn't know that Fr. Keleher coined the term "neo-latinization". I'll ask Shawn Tribe of the NLM blog to include an acknowledgement in the essay. I just picked the term from somewhere and used it in my essay (which was not really an essay, but a letter that Shawn found fit to edit and post -- with my permission, of course.)
By the way, Father, thank you for your comments regarding the Julian Calendar!
As for the neo-Latinization of the Ethiopian rite: I remember that "Octava Dies", a Vatican TV magazine, aired a feature on the Ethipian and Eritrean Catholic Churches and I was surprised to see a shot of an Ethiopian-rite mass with the priest "ad populum."
I would appreciate more comments on the simplification of rites in the Malabar, Chaldean, Ethiopian, Maronite and perhaps in some Byzantine Catholic traditions. Of course, "simplification" is relative: even the Malabar Liturgy remains prolix and elaborate compared to the Traditional Latin Mass.
Carlos Antonio Palad
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The article left out Eucharistic ministers and vigil Masses. What's this about facing the people? Has anyone heard this is happening in the Pittsburgh metropolia? Oh, I'm sure that if that happened we would hear (read) about it on byzcath first! We've already heard so much about the Vigil Liturgies (Vigil Masses - Vespergies...whatever), I haven't heard anything about 'ad populum' liturgies being celebrated anywhere in the Pittsburgh Metropolia, and hopefully WON'T hear (or read) anything like that in the future!!! That was my point Steve--we'd certainly have heard of liturgies facing the people if it was happening. I thought that I had missed something. Eucharistic ministers, altar girls, vigil masses, and every prayer said out loud for everyone to hear is more than enough to contend with. John
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