Guido Marini
Guido Marini (born 31 January 1965) is a Roman Catholic priest, currently serving as the Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations. He was appointed to this post on 1 October 2007, replacing Piero Marini (no relation). He previously served as chief liturgist for the Archdiocese of Genoa.[1]
[edit] Career
Marini was ordained on 4 February 1989 by Cardinal Giovanni Canestri. He earned a doctorate in the psychology of communication in early 2007, in addition to an earlier JUD, a degree in both canon and civil law, from the Pontifical Lateran University
From 1988 to 2003 he served as secretary to the cardinal archbishops of Genoa Canestri (until 1995), Tettamanzi (until 2002) and Bertone.[2]
Marini has received praise[3] for returning traditional elements of the church's liturgical history to the papal Masses and other liturgical celebrations.
While his predecessor, Piero Marini, was raised to the episcopacy and eventually elevated to the rank of archbishop, this is not the norm for this post, as it is with some other posts in the papal household or the Roman Curia, but it could happen again. Before Piero Marini, Enrico Dante was the last master of pontifical ceremonies to be made an archbishop while still serving as the Pope's MC. He was later made a cardinal during the Second Vatican Council.
[edit] Papal Mass
When on 13 January 2008, for the first time in thirty years, the Pope celebrated Mass publicly ad orientem, Marini helped organise the liturgical ceremony.
He has touched on themes such as the proper orientation in the liturgy, the primacy of Gregorian chant and Renaissance polyphony as a "permanent criterion" for sacred music, forms of liturgy, sacred art and architecture, receiving communion kneeling and upon the tongue, the hermeneutic of continuity, silence, and many other aspects of liturgy. Marini, following his appointment as Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations, has restored some traditional elements of papal ceremonial. He adjudged that the papal altar should sustain its traditional formation,[clarification needed] the use of the traditional papal staff (the ferula), the use of ethereal[clarification needed] papal vestments at Mass and other pontifical celebrations, Cardinal-Deacons in dalmatics when serving pontifical celebrations, and the size of the Pope's pallium at Mass.
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| Preceded by Piero Marini |
Master of Pontifical Liturgical Celebrations 1 October 2007 - incumbent |
Succeeded by incumbent |
