Eastern rites: comes destruction with 50 years late?
Giuseppe Federici Study Center – For a new onset Press release no. 23/19 of the 14 March 2019, Saint Matilda
Eastern rites: comes destruction with 50 years late?
The communities of the Middle East united in Rome over the centuries have overcome all kinds of adversities and have always preserved the ancient rites (stolen by schismatics in past centuries). After 50 years after the ruinous reform of the Roman rite, the handmodernist seems to also want to attack the venerable rites of the Christian East (celebrated in communion with the occupants of the Apostolic See). Note the tone used by the Chaldean 'patriarch' (elected by Benedict XVI): it feels like reading a 'conciliar' bishop from the 1970s.
Chaldean Patriarch: reform rites and traditions, to respond to the challenges of modernity
He card. Sako enters the debate on the renewal of the Eastern Churches, some of which want to remain "stubbornly tied" to the dictates of the past. We need to change, maintaining "originality and authenticity" and renewing the "missionary" challenge. Persecutions have generated "ethnic and closed" communities. Look at “current” needs and problems.