February 18, 2008: Catholic Family News:

Unoffical: SSPX Will Not Adopt New Good Friday Prayer

Note from John Vennari: What is posted below confirms what an SSPX told me after a conference given by Bishop Fellay in Winona -- that the SSPX will not adopt the new Good Friday prayer. I did not publish anything about this previously because I did not have formal permission, but now SSPX priests are opening telling their congregations and the word is out via Catholic blogsites.

ALSO, word just reached CFN that on Sunday February 17, Bishop Fellay stated publicly at Ridgefield that the SSPX will not  adopt the new Good Friday Prayer.

Orginally posted on AngelQueen

Fellow AQ readers,

As many of you know, the SSPX priests of the United States had their annual priests meeting in Winona, MN this past week. Bp. Fellay was there and addressed the priests. The feedback we were given this past Sunday at the Syracuse, NY chapel both in the sermon and my private conversation with the prior is that the Society will not be using the new Good Friday prayer. It was stated that while there is nothing particularly erroneous about the prayer, the reason for staying with the original is that it is one of the most ancient prayers in the entire liturgy, the Jews really have no say in what Catholics do or say in their own Sanctuary, and the admission of Cardinal Kasper that we do not intend for the Jews to convert when saying this new prayer shows the intention behind it.

No, I do not have a link. Any others that were there or heard similar feedback from their own priests can back up what I am saying or you can call the priory or the District Superior. - Stephen

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Orignial Angelqueen post at: http://angelqueen.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=18500

Related links:

Update: Feb. 19
Bishop Fellay at Ridgefield
February 17 2008
A summary by Denis Giannelli
Tradition • Motu Proprio • New Good Friday Prayer
go to www.cfnews.org/Fellay-Ridgefield.htm

Cardinal Kasper's Feb. 13 Response to Rabbi Rosen: "The reformulated text no longer speaks about the conversion of the Jews as some Jewish critics wrongly affirm. The text is a prayer inspired by Saint Paul's letter to the Romans, chapter 11, which is the very text that speaks also of the unbroken covenant. It takes up Paul's eschatological hope that in the end of time all Israel will be saved. As a prayer the text lays all in the hands of God and not in ours. It says nothing about the how and when. Therefore there is nothing about missionary activities by which we may take Israel's savlation in our hands." - www.cfnews.org/Kasper-Feb13.htm

"The New Good Friday Prayer" by John Vennari
www.cfnews.org/goodfriday.htm

Posted: Feb. 18, 2008
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