Low-key Study Sessions Replace Holy Mass

Already in August the priests of Wellington Archdiocese, New Zealand, were ordered to change the rite of the Mass celebrated during the last Sunday of October. As a pretext for this, Wellington Cardinal John Dew quoted a “plea of Pope Francis to make the sacred Scriptures better known and more widely diffused.”

The abuse consisted in replacing the three Mass readings with a single reading from a Gospel presented by a layperson who then invited the faithful to concentrate on random words “without trying to analyse”.

This initiative is a symptom for a Church that has lost its piety and liturgy and, like the Protestant reformers, now tries to replace it with [boring] low-key study sessions.

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