The Congregation for the Oriental Churches of the Roman Catholic Church has said that Archbishop Antony Curiel, Metropolitan Vicar, should cancel the extended distribution to the entire Archparchy “indefinitely wrongly wronged” on the issue of the celebration of the Mass in the Syro-Malabar Church. “.
The communication said that it was the duty of the congregation to the Oriental Churches “to communicate to all the bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church that the common good requires that the members of the synod of the dioceses commit themselves to faithful observance. Established by the Synod Liturgical prescriptions”.
The Vatican’s order supports the decision by the Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church to follow a uniform method of mass celebration, while the letter of the Congregation of the Oriental Churches states that the bishops should be “clearly opposed to methods”. and activism which is inconsistent with the obligations of the clerics”.
The Synod of Bishops of the Syro-Malabar Church decided in August last year that a unified system of mass celebration should be introduced. The unified system involves the Mass Celebrante (priest) who faces the congregation (people participating in the Mass celebration) for the first half of Mass and then turns away from them for the second half. However, a group of loyalists, including members of the Archdiocese, such as Ernakulam-Angamali, demanded that they should be allowed to continue in the way they had been attending Mass for almost 50 years and in which the celebrants had confronted the congregation. Month duration.
There have been public protests in support of and against the decision by the Synod of Bishops on the Verdi Mass Festival. The community of common people, religious and priests has been a part of the protest. Those who support the congregation as a whole, facing Mass, have cited the exemption granted by the Metropolitan Vicar of the Archdiocese.
Meanwhile, community sources committed to a fully congregation-facing Mass in the archdiocese, including the Presbyterian Council of the Archdiocese, said that there was no question of faith and morality in the Vatican’s order and priests’. The council, as scheduled earlier, will meet on Thursday to discuss various issues.