The non-acceptance of the liturgical reform, as also a superficial understanding of it, distracts us from the obligation of finding responses to the question that I come back to repeating: how can we grow in our capacity to live in full the liturgical action? How do we continue to let ourselves be amazed at what happens in the celebration under our very eyes? We are in need of a serious and dynamic liturgical formation.
— Desiderio Desideravi, 29 June 2022
Having been fairly uninterested in liturgy until relatively recently, in the last twelve months Pope Francis has shown a marked increase in liturgical interventions. The Holy Father’s personal interest in liturgy per se probably remains fairly low; his recent engagement with it has more to do with the Second Vatican Council and enforcing its ongoing acceptance seventy years after its closing sessions. His Holiness has now identified the post-conciliar liturgical forms as one of the touchstones of authentic conciliar adherence.
