Saturday, March 28, 2020

Binitarian?

Fr. Hunwicke: OLD MASS: NEW DECREES: Prefaces (1) and OLD MASS NEW DECREES: PREFACES (2)

From the second part:


              DISCUSSION.

In my unhumble opinion, the sensible and real choices are either to argue
(1) that the CDF should be asked to reconsider the matter of the Advent and Pre-Lent Prefaces; or
(2) that the Roman Rite, with its severely and primitive binitarian instincts, does not favour the imposition of a Trinitarian character on most of the Sundays of the year, so we should go back to the pre-1759 situation and use simply the Common Preface on Sundays through Advent and Pre-Lent; or
(3) that Sunday is by nature Trinitarian; as long ago as the pre-Gregorian exemplar which Moelcaich the scribe of the Stowe Missal copied, the preface has had a Trinitarian character ... rather as it does in the Byzantine Rite. So ... back to Clement XIII.

Setting aside the question of the prefaces -- Will the prayers of the Roman rite ever develop to the point that the Holy Spirit is included? One cannot force a patriarchate to "properly receive" the teachings of an Ecumenical Council, but can one oppose such a development in the name of "tradition" which is really just ideological conservatism?

1 comment:

jorgen b said...

the Holy Spirit is not a person but a force. There is nothing in holy writ that says otherwise. Binitarianism is true; Trinitarianism is false. If it were otherwise then the Holy Spirit would have been the one to die on the cross for our sins. Is it not the case?