I have two examples of people who where beatified because they had an ordinary holy happy middle-class marriage, period : Blessed Louis Martin and Blessed Marie-Azélie Guérin, the parents of saint Thérèse de Lisieux.

Of course, you could argue that they where beatified mainly they where the parents of a saint and doctor of the Church. But still, they do not meet any of the criteria listed by your reader.

I wish I could read the text.  I don’t have time to listen to a podcast.

Same as Chris above. I don’t have enough time to listen to the whole broadcast, either at work or at home. I also have some trouble listening to audio files. Is there any way you could post a transcript of the show for us non-listeners?

The Holy Father, Pope Benedict XVI, has said that, “the liturgy goes beyond the realm of what can be made and manipulated; it introduces us to the realm of the given, living reality, which communicates itself to us.  The fundamental law of liturgy has been the law of organic growth within the universality of the common tradition.  Even in the huge transition from the Old to the New Testament, this rule was not breached, the continuity of liturgical development was not interrupted.” (The Feast of Faith, 66- 7).  Thus an approach to the liturgy, in cherry picking this or that element from the past in the name of resource-ment would not only commit the fallacy of anachronism, but would logically be in disharmony with the liturgical law of organic development and, therefore, a discontinuity of tradition.  There can be “innovations” for the good of the Church as decided by the Magisterium, but this innovation must grow out of the received tradition and be in harmony with it.  Innovations such as Altar girls, Mass ad populum, and un-orthodox musical lyrics, are, arguably, not in continuity with tradition, or part of an organic development.