AND I ASK, WHO CARES ABOUT THESE QUESTIONS CONCERNING THE LITURGY? MAYBE 0.1 % OF CATHOLICS, AND THAT PERCENTAGE WOULD BE LITURGISTS

Rita Ferrone, a liturgist, has a commentary in Commonweal which you can read HERE. 

But she thinks that Pope Leo XIV is Pope Francis II. Delusional. 

But this is what she thinks are the most import aspects concerning the liturgy:

 “The Liturgy in a Synodal Perspective”dated August 28, 2025, has received almost no attention whatsoever. But even a cursory reading of the questions that form the starting point of their investigations shows that the group has not gathered to discuss trivialities. They will be considering complex, challenging questions that, if addressed well, could have an impact on the quality, style, and content of the liturgical experience of Catholics around the world.

The first question concerns ecclesiology. How does our understanding of synodality as an integral dimension of Church life affect how we celebrate liturgy, particularly the Eucharist? The second question concerns how to foster a better realization of the central importance of baptism and Christian initiation, as well as how to enable more active participation in the liturgy. The third concerns “the recognition of the role of women.” A particular issue highlighted here is how lectionaries might better reflect the scriptural witness of women in salvation history.

The fourth question is focused on enhancing liturgical preaching and promoting mystagogical catechesis. The fifth asks “how to continue along the path of a healthy decentralization of liturgical authority” with respect to inculturation and the translation of texts (the reference here is to Pope Francis’s 2017 motu proprio, Magnum principium). Under the umbrella of this question, the group will also consider the oversight and service provided by the Dicastery for Divine Worship concerning these and other liturgical matters (cf. the Apostolic Constitution Predicate Evangelium, 88–97). The sixth and final question is directed toward liturgical formation. The proposal, based on Pope Francis’s teaching in Desiderio desideravi, is that liturgical formation is a mystagogical undertaking intended for everyone—priests, ministers, and the whole people of God—so that all might “recover the capacity to live completely the liturgical action” (Desiderio desideravi, 27). 

As for me and my household, maybe 99% of practicing, orthodox Catholics, we are more concerned about encountering Jesus Christ in a transcendent, reverent and sober way. We want a Mass where the black is said and the red is followed. We want a Mass where there is attention to detail, organized, and well rehearsed by musicians and cantors/choirs, servers, readers and if needed Extraordinary Ministers of Holy Communion.

We want a Mass that looks and sounds like the Installation Mass for the new Archbishop Westminster. 

We want a Mass that points to Christ and His salvation for us, freeing us from the fires of hell.

We want a Mass where we can pray and thank God for all He has done in eternity.

We want a Mass that makes clear that the Church is the Church of all ages, to include the Church Triumphant in heaven, the Church Militant on earth and the Church suffering in Purgatory. 

We want a Mass that places Christ in the center of the three aspects of the Church encountered at Mass and we want that encounter to be made clear by the care that is taken by both the clergy and laity to show forth the splendor of Christ crucified and risen. Christ the King, we His subjects. 

We want a Mass that enables us once we leave Mass, to be proud to be Catholic and to live our faith at home, work and the public square. We want a Mass that helps us to participate fully in the Church in the world in which we live and to believe that the Catholic Church is the true Church to which Christ calls all to be joined for their life on earth and their life in heaven. 

Forget Rita’s dribble, we don’t want that, we want Christ!