This. I don’t know what to say other than that I am scheduled to arrive in Rome the day this is supposed to happen.
I’m pretty sure my Italian is better than this.
Here’s a google version, because I have far better things to do.
A Church that wants to walk together always needs to reconcile. Forgiveness is the fundamental implementation of the Church, because it summarizes its nature and mission. It would be reductive, however, to think of the Church only as an administrator and dispenser of sacramental forgiveness. Pope Francis has taught us that it is also necessary to ask for it, calling sins by name, feeling pain and even shame, because we are all sinners in need of mercy: of that mercy of God who never tires of loving and forgiving. Forgiveness, then, is like a resurrection, it allows those who have fallen to get up again, those who fear having compromised everything, to start again. Confessing to have sinned is the condition for a new beginning.
At the end of the spiritual retreat (September 30-October 1) of all the participants in the XVI Ordinary General Assembly of the Synod of Bishops, the Penitential Liturgy wants to arrange the synodal work towards the beginning of a new way of being Church.
In St. Peter’s Basilica, the penitential celebration, presided over by Pope Francis, includes a time to listen to three testimonies of people who have suffered sin: the sin of abuse; the sin of war; the sin of indifference in the face of the drama present in the growing phenomenon of all migrations.
Subsequently, we will proceed with the confession of some sins. It is not a matter of denouncing the sin of others, but of recognizing oneself as part of those who by omission or action become the cause of suffering, responsible for the evil suffered by innocent and defenseless people. Whoever expresses the request for forgiveness will do so on behalf of all the baptized. In particular, the following will be confessed:
• sin against peace
• sin against creation, against indigenous peoples, against migrants,
• sin of abuse
• sin against women, the family, young people
• sin of doctrine used as stones to be thrown
• sin against poverty
• Sin against synodality / lack of listening, communion and participation of all
At the end of this confession of sins, the Holy Father will address, on behalf of all the faithful, the request for forgiveness to God and to the sisters and brothers of all humanity.
The penitential celebration, organized jointly by the General Secretariat of the Synod and the Diocese of Rome in collaboration with the Union of Major Superiors (USG) and the International Union of Superiors General (UISG), is open to all, especially young people, and can be followed on the Vatican Media which will ensure its live broadcast.
The liturgy turns the interior gaze of the Church to the faces of the new generations. In fact, it will be the young people present in the Basilica who will receive the sign that the future of the Church is theirs, and that the request for forgiveness is the first step towards a credibility of faith and mission that must be re-established.
Note that this is organized in part or whole by two organizations, women religious UISG and USG, superior probably mostly women.
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O Most Holy Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, I adore Thee profoundly. I offer Thee the Most Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity of Jesus Christ, present in all the Tabernacles of the world, in Reparation for the outrages, sacrileges, and indifferences by which He’s offended. By the infinite merits of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I beg the conversion of poor sinners. Amen.
Waloc.
In its “Show trials” article, Wikipedia tells me “The term was first recorded in 1928”, but also quotes William Chase’s contribution to Stalin: A New History (Cambridge University Press, 20o5) noting that “Lenin appreciated the power of show trials and was keen to use them […]. […] In a February 1922 letter […] Lenin recommended ‘staging a series of model trials’ that would administer ‘quick and forceful repression'”.
“… a new way of being Church… sin against synodality…”
After coming of age during the pontificates of Saint John Paul the Great and Pope Benedict XVI, I barely recognize the Church any more…
So they’re going to “confess” something in my name without my consent? If there was a formula by which I could explicitly renounce this and remove myself from it, I would. Oh wait, that’s a sin against synodality. Am I just mad or is this pretty much trying to make it a mortal sin to have CrimeThink about the Sin-nod?
I am praying that you will find a place to live in Rome permanently.
It’s fake: couldn’t find it anywhere in the Vatican sites
A new way to be Church? What have we been doing, if not that, for some 60 years?
“The liturgy turns the interior gaze of the Church to the faces of the new generations.”
What does that even mean?
I don’t even like the word liturgy any more.
Anyone going to this must be a self- hating Catholic because I can’t understand how anyone would put themselves through such torture.
Meanwhile, God is waiting for us to seek Him through His Son Jesus Christ. It’ll be nice when the church, the liturgy and the rest of the synodalists get back to that.
Give me strength.
The vacuous sentimentalism is worthy of a secondary school “liturgical” project. The self-indulgence, the self-gratification, the narcissism is nothing less than lethal. Can anyone, anything tug these people’s heads out of the sixties?
Looking through this examine, I think those who are trying to supress the TLM can be guilty of all of these sins.
• sin against peace: creating unecessary division through harsh suppression of the TLM
• sin against creation, against indigenous peoples, against migrants: people from these groups have certainly attended a TLM.
• sin of abuse: basically the entire process after TC.
• sin against women, the family, young people: TLMs are filled with these groups. Potenital mortal sin alert.
• sin of doctrine used as stones to be thrown: in their minds, what they consider Doctrine are stones thrown at the faithful.
• sin against poverty: how many large families live in poverty and simplicity and attend a TLM?
• Sin against synodality / lack of listening, communion and participation of all: Pretty much the M.O. of those who enforce TC.
Is it me, or does this seem eerily like a Maoist spiritual struggle session?
Another reason, apart from the Pachamama abomination, to shun St. Peter’s until an act of reconciliation has taken place.
https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/259315/here-s-what-will-be-new-at-the-synod-on-synodality-part-2
It looks real.
It reminds me of attending an all girls “Catholic” High School in the 1990s. The students were encouraged to go to “group” confession on the gymnasium floor.
Basically we were told to get together with your friends in a circle around the priest; each tell one sin and then be given absolution. Best I remember there were 4-5 priests scattered about the gym floor.
I refused. ( I did not know much back then, but I knew that was wrong. )
I went home and shared my day with my parents who were angry and in disbelief. I was their 3 child to attend this school.
The work of the devil will infiltrate even into the Church in such a way that one will see cardinals opposing cardinals, bishops against bishops. The priests who venerate me will be scorned and opposed by their confreres…churches and altars sacked; the Church will be full of those who accept compromises and the demon will press many priests and consecrated souls to leave the service of the Lord.
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Seems much of this is coming to fruition.
This ‘liturgy’ will have felt banners….
New Liturgical Movement just did an article about this experimental type of group Confession. I was astounded that anyone, even in the 70s, would think such a thing was legitimate. Now here we are!
A fine reminder that progressives are often right about what is wrong–but usually wrong about what is right.
For hundreds of years modern theology (i.e., Jesuits et al) insisted that Doctrine was law*. Thomists replied that Doctrine primarily gives insight into God , Who is First Truth, and the nature of man. Thus, Doctrine produces wisdom in man.
* For some years it has seemed to me that in this approach Doctrine seems to be the Church’s ideology.