Don’t get me wrong, I love Pope Leo and a heavy burden of becoming less of a traditional ultramontanist has weighed heavily upon me in the last 12 years.
But recently, there were a lot of posts on various medias reporting that Pope Leo XIV was holding back tears at the consecration and elevation of the Precious Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity.
I looked at those and I am not sure if the pope was holding back tears or a burp. It’s hard to tell and grimaces of priests during the Mass may be voluntary or involuntary.
But let’s say that the Holy Father was truly holding back tears or tearing up and not holding back a burp, that’s the problem with the modern Mass, the piety and showmanship of the celebrant as he facing the congregation throughout the Mass!
Pope Leo isn’t this way, but many priest in fact enjoy being the star of the Mass and milk their showmanship abilities to their pious advantage and the adulation of their groupies.
I have known priests who make all kinds of facial expressions during Mass to show how pious and holy they are.
And I ask, who cares? Well, of course their groupies care and beyond that no one does. But today the cult of the personality of the priest is on steroids and it is due to the Modern Mass that feeds the narcissism of some priests.
None of this was or is now possible with the Ancient Order of the Traditional Mass. Ad orientem should be mandated by the new pope for the modern Mass as well as a thorough return to Sacrosanctum Concilium to revise the revised Mass as demanded by that document not the committee that Pope Paul VI established and codified the silly and deleterious reforms deconstructing the Mass in a way never envisioned by Vatican II.
And every disobedience by priests and bishops that has led to the codifying of altar girls, various illicit ways of receiving Holy Communion and the liberal use of extraordinary Communion Ministers and the Common Chalice needs to be revisited as to why original disobediences led to codifying disobediences!
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