In an interview with a French newspaper, Cardinal Robert Sarah emphasized the importance of silence in encountering God and renewed his call for the ad orientem celebration of the Mass.

Discussing his new book—La Force du silence (The Strength of Silence)—the prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments said that the “truly urgent thing” is “to rediscover the sense of God. Now the Father allows Himself to be approached only in silence.”

“We get lost in struggles for influence, in conflicts between persons, in a narcissistic, vain activism,” he continued. “We swell with pride and pretention, prisoners of a will to power. For the sake of titles, professional or ecclesiastical duties, we accept vile compromises. But all that passes away like smoke.”

Renewing his invitation to priests to celebrate Mass ad orientem, accompanied by catechesis, he said:

This way of doing things promotes silence. Indeed, there is less of a temptation for the celebrant to monopolize the conversation. Facing the Lord, he is less tempted to become a professor who gives a lecture during the whole Mass, reducing the altar to a podium centered no longer on the cross but on the microphone! The priest must remember that he is only an instrument in Christ’s hands, that he must be quiet in order to make room for the Word, and that our human words are ridiculous compared to the one Eternal Word.

I am convinced that priests do not use the same tone of voice when they celebrate facing East. We are so much less tempted to take ourselves for actors, as Pope Francis says!


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Encouraging moments of silence in the Novus Ordo Mass is just window dressing.  The actual silence isn't what matters but instead what matters is the soul as it prepares to take Hole Communion.  Silence helps but so do the statues of the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church and so does the stained glass windows of the pre-Vatican II Catholic Church.  

This emphasis on silence from the Novus Ordite clergy is just posturing and pretending.  The presider sits silently and looks at the congregation while teenage boys in baggy jeans read from the pupit and short dressed women sing songs.  Then the presider gets up, picks up the book, walks in a circle and puts the book in the exact same spot which is a refutation of the Catholic Church and it's moving the book to the other side (the Gospel side of the Altar) signifying a break with Judaism.  A big break.  More of a new beginning.

Do the Novus Ordites care?

Do the Novus Ordites know?

The presiders know and that's the scary part.