Originally published at National Catholic Register
Speaking to traditional Catholic pilgrims at the annual Summorum Pontificum procession, the former CDF prefect warned of faith becoming ‘thoughtless routine’ and stressed the call to true, living faith
Cardinal Gerhard Müller has stressed that the Christian faith is a “personal relationship” with the Triune God in communion with his Church, and has warned against letting that relationship “atrophy into a mechanical tradition, an external custom or a thoughtless routine.”
In a homily on the distinction between ideology and faith delivered Oct. 26 in St. Peter’s Basilica to participants at the conclusion of the 13th annual Summorum Pontificum traditional procession, he observed that as believers “linked to Jesus by personal friendship, we do not behave like guards in a museum of a bygone world.”
Instead, he added, “we move in the presence of God, before whom we must answer for our lives in thoughts, words and good works.”
Cardinal Müller, who served as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith from 2012 to 2017, delivered his homily during a short liturgical service in the basilica.
Cardinal Gerhard Müller celebrates Mass for the 13th Summorum Pontificum pilgrimage Oct. 26, 2024.(Photo: Edward Pentin )
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