If we do not want Pentecost to be reduced to a mere ritual or to a suggestive commemoration, but that it be a real event of salvation, through a humble and silent listening to God's Word we must predispose ourselves to God's gift in religious openness. So that Pentecost renew itself in our time, perhaps there is need -- without taking anything away from God's freedom [to do as he pleases] -- for the Church to be less "preoccupied" with activities and more dedicated to prayer.
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Cardinal Burke, who regularly celebrates the Latin Mass, said that
congregations at traditional liturgies ‘are getting bigger and bigger,’
with ‘people ...
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