Pacts achieved to settle the vexed liturgy dispute in India’s Eastern rite Syro-Malabar Church collapsed again when the Church’s synod allegedly altered the agreements and refused to withdraw its earlier circular that threatened to excommunicate priests who failed to follow the Church’s official liturgical rubrics.COMECE: Europe needs to recover hope and fulfil its vocation to peace
The post-Synodal circular “has betrayed us,” said a June 22 statement from the Archdiocesan Protection Committee, a body of archdiocese priests, a day after the Synod issued its latest circular. However, the rebels say they had agreed to this as a final solution, but the circular made it a temporary agreement.
Those who negotiated with the archdiocese also “assured our delegates that the traditional Mass, for which they were fighting, would be declared as the official Mass of the archdiocese,” said Father Jose Vailikodath, the public relations officer of the priests’ body. He said the priests would not accept the post-synodal circular and would continue to offer their traditional Mass, resetting the liturgy dispute to square one.
“Until the settlement of these petitions, the circular threatening with automatic ex-communication of priests would remain ineffective,” said a Church official familiar with canon law.
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