"Muy querido Papa Francisco…"
The peak of this diversity was the Mass celebrated by Francis on the beach of Copacabana, at the end of the World Youth Day in Rio de Janeiro, with the "musical" made to erupt in the very heart of the liturgy, with soloists, choirs, and stadium chants.
But albeit without arriving at these excesses, there are recurrent elements, in the celebratory style of the current pope, that have negatively struck those faithful to whom anguished expression was given - in an open letter of September 23 that made the rounds of the world - by the Mexican Catholic Lucrecia Rego de Planas, mother of nine children, a university professor and longtime friend of Bergoglio:
"Muy querido Papa Francisco…" Dearest Pope Francis
In the letter, Lucrecia Rego de Planas says among other things that she "suffers" at seeing that even as pope Bergoglio "does not genuflect in front of the tabernacle or during the consecration," as he was already doing at Buenos Aires.
And in effect it is so. At the Mass, after the consecration of the bread and the wine, Pope Francis never makes the genuflection prescribed by the liturgy, but only bows. And in Rio de Janeiro, during the nighttime vigil broadcast worldwide, during the adoration of the Most Holy Sacrament he did not kneel, but remained standing or seated.
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