For a
sacrament to be valid, it must be properly celebrated — that is, certain
requirements set forth in Church law must be met. For this reason, no
sacramental rite may be modified or manipulated except by the supreme
authority of the Church, which itself may not act arbitrarily but always
“in the obedience of faith and with religious respect for the mystery”
of the sacramental liturgy (see no. 1125). Thus it belongs to the Holy
See alone to set forth in law what constitutes the proper and valid
celebration of the sacraments. http://www.osv.com/tabid/7631/itemid/10245/Matter-and-Form.aspx |
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