Francis Discovers “Alarming Sign” in Novus Ordo Liturgy

The “sad experience” of 2020's "liturgical 'fasting" has highlighted a “goodness” of the “long liturgical journey” that has been made since Vatican II, Francis wrote in a message for the Italian Liturgical Week (August 23-26), although there is no direct link between the Novus Ordo and Covid.

But already in the next paragraph, he contradicts this accolade when stressing the difficulties of the resumption of the liturgy which he calls “an alarming sign of the advanced stage of the change of epoch.”

The euphemism “change of epoch” shows that Francis fears facing the extent of the liturgical disaster. Instead, he evasively speaks of a “changed perception of time” in people’s “real lives” that has repercussions on the way of “being and feeling community.”

According to Francis' abstract language, the “Sunday assembly” is “unbalanced in terms of generational presence” because of “cultural inhomogeneity.” It would have been more honest to admit that liturgical secularising led into a deadlock.

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