Akin: Should We Be Concerned About Pope Francis's Inaugural Mass?
Pope Francis's inaugural Mass is unique in several respects.
That's raised a lot of questions: Only some cardinals doing the act of obedience? Different Mass readings? The Gospel reading in Greek? No offertory procession? No Communion distributed by the pope?
What does all this mean about the pope and where he stands on liturgy?
Is he striking out on a radical new course?
Let's take a deep breath . . . and a closer look at these differences.
4 comments:
I thought this article was an excellent reflection on the papal liturgy.
From what I read in advance about the Mass, and from what I saw (didn't make it to get up quite early enough for the start!)this morning, I was very pleased with the Mass as a whole. It certainly is a departure from Benedict's style, but it was reverent and liturgically appropriate, and better than 95% of the parish and cathedral Masses we see around these parts.
I don't mind the absence of an offertory procession, or the Pope not distributing Communion. Actually, I think they should restore the Pope-only reception of Communion as in the classical papal liturgy.
Agreed!
Agreed (I haven't seen it yet though).
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