B16 gave one positive reason for Summorum Pontificum: "an interior reconciliation in the heart of the Church."
I'm personally thrilled to have discovered the older use. I thank God for this discovery. Without it I cannot imagine how else I may have so easily and quickly deepened my love and appreciation for the Liturgy and Rites of the Church.
I owe this discovery to B16 and his desire for reconciliation. I too will make his desire for reconciliation my own, since it's what brought me such a love and appreciation to begin with.
Four years after Summorum, Ecclesia Dei instructed:
"19. The faithful who ask for the celebration of the forma extraordinaria must not in any way support or belong to groups which show themselves to be against the validity or legitimacy of the Holy Mass or the Sacraments celebrated in the forma ordinaria or against the Roman Pontiff as Supreme Pastor of the Universal Church."
Therefore, whatever contradicts this reconciliation—the desire for which produced Summorum—whatever smacks of disunity and division I reject. I reject it the way I reject anything that would take away from the honor and dignity of the Lord's own Body and Blood.
I will make no separate peace with anyone however enthusiastic they may be for the fostering of the older form who at the same time oppose the Pope, the ordinary form or my own bishop.
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