Another anniversary - 50 years since Sacrosanctum concilium

Today is the 50th anniversary of the 2nd Vatican Council document Sacrosanctum concilium.

Here are three different takes on what has happened since that day. This will not be a universally held view but I believe we, the whole western church, was completely dudded by what we were given.

New Liturgical Movement: Is Your Liturgy Like What Vatican II Intended?

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2013/12/is-your-liturgy-like-what-vatican-ii.html#.Up7TxOJCrK0

Fr Z: 50 years today: Bugninicare

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2013/12/50-years-ago-today-bugninicare/  (Fr Z must be having a really bad day)

Rorate Caeli:

50 years of Sacrosanctum Concilium and what the Council has wrought "The Destruction of the Roman Rite"

 http://rorate-caeli.blogspot.com/2013/12/50-years-of-sacrosanctum-concilium-and.html

 This:

 

playing pseudo-novel self-centred (immanentist?) games in a building purposely built to lead us to a transcendent worship of the eternal God

or this:

 

Despite the less than transcendent architecture the form and disposition is focussed on the transcendent and the true relation of creature to Creator. The old, tried ways, made new in each generation.

Comments

[Thygocanberra]

The decline is mult-factorial but the wreckovation of the liturgy is in the mix.
And the constant appeal to 'the springtime of renewal' is as you say 'in denial'. The crash is so complete that in a business the leaders would be tarred, feathered and thrown into the Tiber.
My observation is that the ockerism of Australia has made it especially true here.
I don't know what to make of Pope Francis, especially his never-ending fortune cookie sermons. He is NOT a beacon of clarity.

[Paul]

It doesn't bear thinking about ... the consequences of V2 and SC were so disasterous. The majority of the 'Catholic' world no longer understands the Faith, no longer lives the Faith or even basic moral precepts, and no longer attends Mass every Sunday. It is apostasy. There is but a remnant left. Renewal? Only the exact opposite. Only fools or the truely evil can exist with such a completely obvious global catastophe and act like nothing has happened. My fear is that the current Holy Father is blinded. Total unmitigated disaster.