Pubblichiamo ben volentieri l'intervista rilasciata alla Radio Vaticana - in inglese - dal card. Burke in occasione della presentazione degli Atti del congresso Sacra Liturgia 2013, in lingua italiana, pubblicati dall'editore senese Cantagalli, lo scorso 21 novembre:
Card Burke: Liturgy at the
heart of communion with Christ
(Vatican Radio) The reform of the Sacred Liturgy “is
brought about not through rupture with the past, not through revolution, but
through continuity with the past, through respect for the sublime beauty of the
Sacred Liturgy celebrated uninterruptedly along the Christian centuries.” That
was the message of Cardinal Raymond Burke, citing the teaching of Pope Benedict
XVI, at the presentation of the proceedings of Sacra Liturgia 2013 – a
major conference on the Sacred Liturgy that took place in Rome in June of last
year.
The Sacra Liturgia Conference was organized by
Bishop Dominique Rey of Frejus-Toulon in France, “to study, promote and renew
the appreciation of liturgical formation and celebration and its foundation for
the mission of the Church.” At the book presentation in Rome on Friday night,
Bishop Rey said, “It is my hope that this book will do much to assist in the
liturgical formation of seminarians and others, and that it will promote a
well-founded liturgical renewal amongst clergy and other liturgical ministers
throughout the Church.”
Following the presentation, Cardinal Burke spoke with
Vatican Radio about reform of the Sacred Liturgy. “What happened after [the
Second Vatican] Council was the reform was hijacked by the so-called ‘Spirit’
of the Council, which was not related directly at all to the actual texts of
the Council Fathers,” he said. “And now we’re returning to those texts, which
promote reform in continuity with the tradition.” He spoke of the efforts of
the Blessed Pope Paul VI, of Pope Saint John Paul II, and of Pope-emeritus
Benedict XVI to foster the work of authentic liturgical reform, an effort that
continues in the pontificate of Pope Francis.
Cardinal Burke said, “the fact of the matter is that
our communion with Christ, the substance of it, is the Sacred Liturgy,
and in particular, the Holy Eucharist.” He continued, “Our Christian life, the
heart of our Christian life, the foundation, is in that communion with our Lord
Jesus Christ in His true Body and Blood through the Sacrament of the Holy
Eucharist. At the same time, it is the highest expression of our Christian
life, in that we unite ourselves to our Lord in His offering of His very being
to the Father in sacrifice… There isn’t anything more beautiful, anything
better that we do, than to give worship to God as He desires us to do, and
gives us the discipline in the Church to do.”
Fonte: Radio Vaticana, 24.11.2014, nonché in New Liturgical Movement, Nov. 24th, 2014
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