What exactly does the OTTAVIANI intervention mean?

Answer 1

He was A Cardinal who saw that Vatican II was going to lead to the destruction of The Catholic Church. So he attempted to use his influence to put an end to the changes being brought about. He failed, and the Church decayed

Answer 2

The Ottaviani Intervention (Short Critical Study on the New Order of Mass) was a short study, accompanied by a letter, which endorsed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani to Pope Paul VI warning him against the implementation of the Mass of Paul VI, the reformed Catholic liturgy of 1969, shortly before its completion.

Main authors of the study known as the Ottaviani intervention were some well-known Roman theologians and professors of universities, including the Dominican priest Guérard des Lauriers. The text was also approved by a number of conservative bishops, among whom Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. At the same time Antonio Cardinal Bacci also publicly supported this criticism of the new Ordo Missae.

Answer 3

The Ottaviani Intervention (or: Short Critical Study on the New Order of Mass) was a short study, accompanied by a letter, which endorsed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani to Pope Paul VI warning him against the implementation of the Mass of Paul VI, the reformed Catholic liturgy of 1969, shortly before its completion.

Main authors of the study known as the Ottaviani intervention were some well-known Roman theologians and professors of universities, including the Dominican priest Guérard des Lauriers. The text was also approved by a number of conservative bishops, among whom Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. At the same time Antonio Cardinal Bacci also publicly supported this criticism of the new Ordo Missae.

After the final version of the Mass was promulgated and Pope Paul VI spoke directly to its theology, the Cardinal withdrew his objections in the following words:

"I have rejoiced profoundly to read the Discourse by the Holy Father on the question of the new Ordo Missae, and especially the doctrinal precisions contained in his discourses at the public Audiences of November 19 and 26, after which I believe, no one can any longer be genuinely scandalized [by the new rite's sacrificial character]. As for the rest, a prudent and intelligent catechesis must be undertaken to solve some legitimate perplexities which the text is capable of arousing."

--Letter from Cardinal Ottaviani to Dom Gerard Lafond, O.S.B., in Documentation Catholique, #67, 1970, pages 215-216 and 343)

Cardinal Ottaviani remained critical of liturgical deviations, but was severely weakened physically after 1970 due to blindness and vascular complications.

Answer 4

The Ottaviani Intervention (or: Short Critical Study on the New Order of Mass) was a short study, accompanied by a letter, which endorsed by Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani to Pope Paul VI warning him against the implementation of the Mass of Paul VI, the reformed Catholic liturgy of 1969, shortly before its completion.

Main authors of the study known as the Ottaviani intervention were some well-known Roman theologians and professors of universities, including the Dominican priest Guérard des Lauriers. The text was also approved by a number of conservative bishops, among whom Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre. At the same time Antonio Cardinal Bacci also publicly supported this criticism of the new Ordo Missae.

After the final version of the Mass was promulgated and Pope Paul VI spoke directly to its theology, the Cardinal withdrew his objections in the following words:

"I have rejoiced profoundly to read the Discourse by the Holy Father on the question of the new Ordo Missae, and especially the doctrinal precisions contained in his discourses at the public Audiences of November 19 and 26, after which I believe, no one can any longer be genuinely scandalized [by the new rite's sacrificial character]. As for the rest, a prudent and intelligent catechesis must be undertaken to solve some legitimate perplexities which the text is capable of arousing."

--Letter from Cardinal Ottaviani to Dom Gerard Lafond, O.S.B., in Documentation Catholique, #67, 1970, pages 215-216 and 343)

Cardinal Ottaviani remained critical of liturgical deviations, but was severely weakened physically after 1970 due to blindness and vascular complications.

Rome
25 September 1969

Most Holy Father:

Having carefully examined and presented for the scrutiny of others the New Order of Mass (Novus Ordo Missae) prepared by the experts of the Committee for the Implementation of the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, and after lengthy prayer and reflection, we feel obliged before God and Your Holiness to set forth the following considerations:

1. The accompanying Critical Study is the work of a select group of bishops, theologians, liturgists, and pastors of souls. Despite its brevity, the study shows quite clearly that the Novus Ordo Missae--considering the new elements widely susceptible to widely different interpretations which are implied or taken for granted--represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session 22 of the Council of Trent. The "canons" of the rite definitively fixed at that time erected an insurmountable barrier against any heresy which might attack the integrity of the Mystery.

2. The pastoral reasons put forth to justify such a grave break, even if such reasons could still hold good in the face of doctrinal considerations, do not seem sufficient. The innovations in the Novus Ordo and the fact that all that is of perennial value finds only a minor place--if it subsists at all--could well turn into a certainty the suspicion, already prevalent, alas in many circles, that truths which have always been believed by the Christian people can be changed or ignored without infidelity to that sacred deposit of doctrine to which the Catholic faith is bound forever. The recent reforms have amply demonstrated that new changes in the liturgy could not be made without leading to complete bewilderment on the part of the faithful, who already show signs of restiveness and an indubitable lessening of their faith. Among the best of the clergy, the result is an agonizing crisis of conscience, numberless instances of which come to us daily.

3. We are certain that these considerations, prompted by what we hear from the living voice of shepherds and the flock, cannot but find an echo in the heart of Your Holiness, always so profoundly solicitous for the spiritual needs of the children of the Church. The subjects for whose benefit a law is made have always had the right, nay the duty, to ask the legislator to abrogate the law, should it prove to be harmful.

At a time, therefore, when the purity of the faith and the unity of the Church suffer cruel lacerations and still greater peril, daily and sorrowfully echoed in the words of You, our common Father, we most earnestly beseech Your Holiness not to deprive us of the possibility of continuing to have recourse to the integral and fruitful Missal of St. Pius V, so highly praised by Your Holiness, and so deeply venerated by the whole Catholic world.

A. Card. Ottaviani
A. Card. Bacci

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