This is an idea, common to papal teaching on the liturgy from the beginning of the twentieth century. This “active participation” has always been understood to be internal and external. To reduce participation to solely external signs is both a simplification and a misguided attack in the “culture wars” you seek to avoid..... really mean
....and it doesn't matter what we do to participate, as participation is more internal than external (as Bishop Hopes reminded us).?
Bishop Hopes letter starts (my italics added, and see my earlier post):
I am writing with regard to your leader “The old rite put in its place” (8 August). In his message welcoming priests to the training conference provided by the Diocese of Westminster in conjunction with the Latin Mass Society, Archbishop Nichols expresses his gratitude to those priests who have given up their time to respond to a need in the Church today.
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"Christ has died. Christ has risen, Christ will come again". I wonder when he does ,will he come to the Extraordinary or Ordinary form. Also,would we recognize Him and make him welcome?
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