CNS STORY: Vatican official says pope does not want to abandon liturgical reform

Catholic News Service has a piece up, Vatican official says pope does not want to abandon liturgical reform; the Vatican official in question is Msgr. Guido Marini, papal master of ceremonies.

It is encouraging to see Msgr. Guido Marini continuing the spread the message that reform must happen in continuity rather than in rupture. Of course, the seeds of the latter problem are found in subject of the article itself. The expressed concern of some over the "abandonment of the liturgical reforms of Vatican II" seems to made because their vision of what Vatican II did is precisely formed by a spirit of rupture. As such, when the Pope simply celebrates the modern Roman Mass "ad orientem" some perceive this as "abandonment" -- thus demonstrating how deeply the roots of rupture go and can form one's liturgical and ecclesiological vision.