It is said, last, that the faithful of every diocese, and those drawing near to the community of believers or coming back to it, should be able to meet the various liturgical sensibilities found within the Catholic tradition. Within “the liturgical norms currently in force” it falls to pastors to bring out the riches of the Catholic heritage, its many styles of music among them, so as to reach the different sensibilities of their contemporaries; and the great passages of a human life are to be accompanied by the Church’s blessing.

The Considerations observe that the West above all is losing its common memory of rites to a very radical individualism, but not the human need for ritual, which people have always answered in their own ways. The Christian community is built up by ritual practice, and for this the Church’s spiritual heritage is called a precious resource that does not run dry.

But let all things be done decently, and according to order.

m · 1 Corinthians 14:40 · Douay-Rheims

ⁿIf any one saith, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, wont to be used in the solemn administration of the sacraments, may be contemned, or without sin be omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be changed, by every pastor of the churches, into other new ones; let him be anathema.

n · Trent, sess. VII (1547), canon 13 on the sacraments · Waterworth (1848)

^oLet the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

o · Colossians 3:16 · Douay-Rheims

^pThe Lord bless thee, and keep thee. The Lord shew his face to thee, and have mercy on thee. The Lord turn his countenance to thee, and give thee peace.

p · Numbers 6:24–26 · Douay-Rheims

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n. 94's clause, “with due respect for the liturgical norms currently in force”, is its joint. Paul gives the principle, Trent the canon: the received rites are not changed at pleasure by every pastor. n. 94 opens no option; its variety lives inside the choices the books already give.

info(illicit_change(pr_x, mass_x)) · sacrament valid

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The variety of music n. 94 asks for: psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, sung within the order.

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Life's great passages accompanied by blessing: the Church's blessing was Aaron's before it was hers.

Two premises of other kinds

That the West is losing its memory of rites is a matter of evidence, not of office. Entered as the Dicastery answering it, it is refused, though the act settles nothing: a lower privilege, still the wrong shape.

violation(act_answers_a_fact( venite, q(ritual_memory_lost)))

The need for ritual is philosophical anthropology, a claim of natural reason, for which the checker has no sort yet.