Pope Leo XIV suggested that those who attended Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) before the liturgical changes after the Second Vatican Council participated as “strangers and silent spectators.”
In a general audience on Wednesday morning, Leo XIV concluded a catechesis series on Sacrosanctum Concilium, the Second Vatican Council’s Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, by discussing alleged reasons for the so-called liturgical “reform.”
“When the Church carries out a reform of the liturgy — a constant process of development across the centuries — there is an important distinction to be made between the divine, immutable elements, and the human elements, which may undergo various modifications,” the pontiff said while reading a summary of his catechesis installment.
“The need arose for the faithful to celebrate the liturgies more consciously and actively, not ‘as strangers and silent spectators,’ but participating fully in the salvific mystery. In this way, the Christian people learn to recognize sacred realities, offer themselves with and through the hands of the priest, and become more open to receiving God’s grace,” said Leo XIV, as if the faithful did not “participate fully” in the Mass before the Novus Ordo Missae was promulgated.
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