Pope Francis has always treated this enthusiasm as if it were toxic sludge, making fun of the “rigid” young priests who want to celebrate this Mass. Francis was formed by the revolutionary spirit of the Second Vatican Council that went deep into his Jesuit formation. This revolution held as a dogma that the traditional Mass of the Church was a dead end, a moribund rite that would repel the young. Only the new reformed rites, after the Council, would have the vital spirit that the Church needed. He has given homily after homily and sermon after sermon denouncing the spirit of rigidity that is, as he sees it, obsessed with upholding tradition, the spirit that says, in Pope Francis’s words, “it’s this or nothing.”
The very language of the Novus Ordo Mass is banal. The Preface now has it:
- Priest: Let us give thanks to the Lord, our God.
- People: It is right and just.
- It used to be "It is truly meet and just, right and availing unto salvation …"
- Which sounds better? I hope Pope Paul VI is enjoying his stay in Purgatory.
- Oh, and the English has really increased attendance at Mass, right?
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