tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post4574755200084182120..comments2023-10-15T09:36:12.013+01:00Comments on Countercultural Father: Bugnini on the Lectionary (3)Ben Trovatohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15299230935468606845noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-253865779660854699.post-20781324652625161822013-05-28T11:41:58.253+01:002013-05-28T11:41:58.253+01:00It’s been an interesting series Ben. Thank you for...It’s been an interesting series Ben. Thank you for the time and effort.<br />I would say that you have established that the new lectionary was introduced in a hurry, was based on the personal views of a few, insufficiently scrutinised (especially by Pope Paul VI) and was done partly in a spirit of disdain for what went before (and perhaps disdain for the popular piety of the ordinary faithful too). In those circumstances it is very likely that the result will be imperfect.<br />However your conclusions about Old Testament and New Testament links and the downplaying of the idea of scripture as prayer are unfair in my view.<br />One aspect of the new lectionary you have not touched on is the inclusion (outside Easter) of an OT reading linked to the Gospel making the prophetic nature of the OT explicit. I would argue this more than offsets the removal of much about St John the Baptist.<br />Secondly the inclusion of a Responsorial Psalm (even though they are always oddly redacted) in response to the OT reading is an explicit use of scripture as prayer and seems to be longer and therefore include “more” scripture than the Gradual it replaced.<br />It’s certainly true that we view the scriptures as experienced in Mass as instruction but I don’t think this is Bugnini’s fault. (Although perhaps it is – maybe the inclusion of the sermon is really the innovation that is to blame). This part of your post has really got me thinking. I really like you analogy for scripture as prayer and have been thinking about it a lot. The conclusion I have come to is that all prayer is instructional as well as devotional. If prayer is raising the mind and heart to Almighty God then it will have an intellectual impact as well as a conversion of the will and affections. The weakness in your analogy is that not all prayer is intercessory, some is thanksgiving and some is praise. All of this is present in the Mass and all of it is possible through reading the scriptures prayerfully. <br />It’s an interesting project and I am glad it is not your last post on the matter.<br />Part-time Pilgrimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11183889477468203531noreply@blogger.com