NLM: Full text of Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos address to the Latin Mass Society

Earlier today, Shawn Tribe of The New Liturgical Movement posted an article that emphasized that what Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos was stating was not a new or de novo juridical finding or decision. Instead, His Eminence was stating the overt will of Pope Benedict XVI as stated several times by the Cardinal himself as well as the Holy Father in the Motu Proprio.

Here is the full transcript of his interview with a link to the homily given. The point of fact is, however, that those who do not follow the will of the Pope are depriving the faithful of the "Gregorian Rite" which is their heritage. Here is a part of his address which Mr. Tribe emphasized in bold.

Let me say this plainly: the Holy Father wants the ancient use of the Mass to become a normal occurrence in the liturgical life of the Church so that all of Christ’s faithful – young and old – can become familiar with the older rites and draw from their tangible beauty and transcendence. The Holy Father wants this for pastoral reasons as well as for theological ones. In his letter accompanying Summorum Pontificum Pope Benedict wrote that:

"In the history of the liturgy there is growth and progress, but no rupture. What earlier generations held as sacred, remains sacred and great for us too, and it cannot be all of a sudden entirely forbidden or even considered harmful. It behooves all of us to preserve the riches which have developed in the Church’s faith and prayer, and to give them their proper place."

Please read the entire article. This address is pressing the point more than we have seen and clarifies certain things as well. Whether something in the way of clarifications will follow is not known.