Vatican II ABOUT FACE! - Chiesa viva

now, by celebrating “facing the people,” he focuses particular
attention on the faithful, that is attention given to any
“Tom, Dick or Harry” of any diocese updated to address
“the needs of modern times” and “to the post-conciliar
charismatic signs” for a community celebration “towards
the people.”
This is not just any hypothesis thrown out there! We just
need to think of the many priests (over 100 thousand!) who
have thrown away their priestly vestments and those who
have first adopted the “clergyman” uniform and then “plain
clothes” to better identify with “God’s people” and therefore,
to give it a more “communal” touch. If we think of that, it
would not be “daring” to think that there is a straight “cause”
and “effect” relationship also in this “leveling” of the ministerial
priesthood with the “common priesthood” of the believers
(by virtue of Baptism), created by the Second Vatican
Council in Article 27 of the “Liturgical Constitution”
with complete disdain for Pius XII’s “Mediator Dei,” which
had been absolutely ignored in the Constitution!
The “Mediator Dei” says:
«... “dialogued” Mass (today known as “communal”)
(...) cannot be a replacement of the solemn
Mass; the latter, even if it is officiated only in
front of ministers, has a special dignity because
of the majesty of its rites…»
And later adds:
«We must take into account that they are not of
the truth (and therefore, not just undisciplined
and disobedient!) and have deviated from the
path of reason (and Vatican II did not realize
this?). These people have wrongful opinions and
“attribute to all these circumstances” those values
that should be asserted without a doubt but
by omitting them, the sacred action (that is, at-
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