![]() It would also be desirable to include in the appendix of a future edition of the missal the Penitential Rite and the Offertory of the extraordinary form in order to emphasize that the two liturgical forms illuminate each other, in continuity and without opposition. Conversely, celebrating the extraordinary form without taking into account the indications of Sacrosanctum Concilium risks reducing this form to a lifeless and futureless archaeological vestige. We need the extraordinary form to know in which spirit to celebrate the ordinary form. In this sense, it is necessary that those who celebrate the extraordinary form do so without a spirit of opposition and therefore in the spirit of Sacrosanctum Concilium. The Conciliar Constitution stipulates that “new forms adopted should in some way grow organically from forms already existing.” It would therefore be wrong to oppose the Council to the Tradition of the Church. The Council did not wish to break with the liturgical forms inherited from Tradition, but, on the contrary, to better enter and participate more fully in them. We must move away from dialectical oppositions. What a deception and insult to all the saints who have gone before us! What a vision of the Church. It means destroying the Church by tearing it out of its Tradition and making it believe that what the Church considered holy in the past is now wrong and unacceptable. To oppose them is a profound ecclesiological error. Both forms have the same faith and the same theology. This implies getting out of a hermeneutic of rupture. But, above all, how can we understand, how can we not be surprised and deeply shocked that what was the rule yesterday is prohibited today? Is it not true that prohibiting or suspecting the extraordinary form can only be inspired by the demon who desires our suffocation and spiritual death? When the extraordinary form is celebrated in the spirit of the Second Vatican Council, it reveals its full fruitfulness: How can we be surprised that a liturgy that has carried so many saints continues to smile at young souls thirsty for God? Like Benedict XVI, I hope that the two forms of the Roman Rite will be mutually enriching. And young people have entrusted me with their absolute preference for the extraordinary form, more educative and more insistent on the primacy and centrality of God, silence and on the meaning of the sacred and divine transcendence. I do not “think” so I see it! I am a witness to it. Pentin asked: “Why do you think more and more young people are attracted to traditional liturgy / the extraordinary form?” Robert Cardinal Sarah replied as follows: What specifically did Cardinal Sarah say while serving was CDW prefect? On 23 September 2019, Cardinal Sarah had an exchange with Edward Pentin on the record. Perhaps unwittingly, Cardinal Roche has just endorsed the words of Cardinal Sarah. Here’s the exact quote (17 February 2023) from Cardinal Roche: When Cardinal Sarah retired at the age of 75, Roche was appointed. ![]() That is to say: Out of seven billion humans on planet Earth, Pope Francis selected Cardinal Sarah to be the Vatican’s chief liturgist. ![]() In a letter sent quite recently, 1 Arthur Cardinal Roche declared: “It is an absurdity to think that the prefect of a dicastery would do anything other than exercise the wishes of the Holy Father…” Readers will remember that Robert Cardinal Sarah served as the CDW prefect under Pope Francis.
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