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LITURGY-FLOWERS Apr-23-2004 (320 words) With photos. xxxi
What to keep and what to cut: Vatican doesn't list all Mass abuses
By Cindy Wooden
Catholic News Service
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- In more than 60 pages of text, the Vatican's new document on liturgical abuses deals with a myriad of topics -- but not flowers.
At the April 23 Vatican press conference releasing the liturgical instruction, "Redemptionis Sacramentum" ("The Sacrament of Redemption"), a reporter said she was concerned about the omission.
If the Eucharist is a sacrifice more than a "fraternal banquet," she asked, why should some parishes be allowed to fill the altar with flowers as if it were a dining table set for an elegant meal?
"Flowers were created by God and do not impede us from worshipping God," replied Cardinal Francis Arinze, prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, which wrote the new document.
The cardinal said flowers should not be placed on the altar, but if there were one bouquet on the right and one on the left it would not be a huge problem.
The decision on which practices to mention and which to leave to local bishops to handle was made after widespread consultation, he said.
Cardinal Arinze said the instruction took more than a year to write and went through 12 drafts, with some of them marking major changes.
All of the cardinals and bishops who are members of the worship congregation and those belonging to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, as well as dozens of consultants, were asked to submit lists of what they saw as the major questions, concerns and apparent abuses regarding the Eucharist, he said.
Members of the two congregations met in June 2003 to discuss an early draft of the document, then more changes were made, he said.
In his 2003 document, "Ecclesia de Eucharistia," on the church and the Eucharist, Pope John Paul II asked the congregations to draw up the document, and the final draft was issued with his approval.
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