“The matter, the form and the intention are always inserted in the context of the liturgical celebration (…) Due attention to the essential elements of the Sacraments, on which their validity depends, must, therefore, agree with the care and respect for the entire celebration,” the note adds.
Therefore, the Dicastery recalls that by modifying on its own initiative the celebratory form of a Sacrament, it constitutes both a “liturgical abuse”, as well as “a wound inflicted both on the ecclesial communion and on the recognizability of the action of Christ that In the most serious cases it makes the Sacrament itself invalid.”
At another point in the document, the importance of the minister understanding that the authentic liturgical celebration “is one that respects and exalts the primacy of Christ and the act participation of the entire assembly, even through humble obedience to the liturgical norms.”
“It is up to them first to ensure that ‘the beauty of Christian celebration’ remains alive and is not ‘deteriorated by a superficial and reductionist understanding of its value or, worse still, by its instrumentalization in the service of some ideological vision.’ , whatever it is,’” concludes the Vatican note.