Francis: A “Woke” Pope? (1)

The question may seem impertinent or even insulting, and yet, many elements support an affirmative answer. According to Le Robert online dictionary, the term wokism or woke, in addition to its historical connotation, should be translated, according to an official recommendation, as “culture of deconstruction”: a way of saying “let us wipe the slate clean of the past.”
The first element of an answer can be found in the latest autobiography of Pope Francis (the third in two years) that contains a vitriolic passage against those who are attracted to the celebration of the Mass “according to the pre-conciliar missal.”
Using psychoanalytical jargon that is, at the very least, dubious, the text accuses this celebration of being “an ideology.”
Another accusation leaves one even more astonished: the Pope finds "this fascination for what one does not understand, which has a somewhat occult air" to be curious. Thus, the Mass that can boast of, without exaggeration, the epithet of the "Mass of all time," would be a kind of occultism? And what is more, the Pope says it seduces "even the youngest generations."
Those who attend it do not understand it, because they do not understand Latin no doubt? Who are we kidding? Is he referring to the faithful who have sanctified themselves for centuries by attending it with piety and have found nourishment for their faith? Or is he referring to the popes, bishops, and priests who celebrated it for the glory of God and the salvation of their flocks?
The rest is distressing, because it comes from a pontifical pen, even if it is in a private capacity: "Often this rigidity is accompanied by elaborate and expensive attire, lace, ribbons, chasubles." This contempt toward the faithful and against the beauty of the liturgy, which has always been a stated concern of the Church, is abysmal.
The psychoanalysis continues: "It is not a taste for tradition, but an ostentation of clericalism, which is nothing other than the ecclesiastical version of individualism." The holy Curé of Ars, who lived in poverty, furnished his sacristy with liturgical material that was never beautiful enough for him. Is the Pope ignoring that?
The passage ends with a new psychoanalytical axe: “Not a return to the sacred, but quite the opposite, a sectarian worldliness. Sometimes, these disguises hide imbalances, emotional deviations, behavioral problems, a personal malaise that can be exploited.”
In other words, priests who celebrate according to the traditional rite belong to a worldly “sect.” And behind the “disguises” of their ornaments hides unbalanced people, deviants, neurotics, and who knows what else.
Francis continues with his conception of the liturgy, which “cannot be a rite in itself, on the margins of pastoral work. Nor an exercise in an abstract spiritualism, wrapped in a hazy sense of mystery. The liturgy is an encounter, it is a return to others.”
This defines the liturgy solely by its “descending” dimension, omitting the most important, the “ascending” dimension. It is an omission characteristic of those immersed in the new rite, which has erased, rubbed out, and hidden this last dimension. The liturgy is no longer first and foremost a prayer made to God, but “a return to others.”
In a new paragraph where the Pope, in passing, comments on St. Vincent of Lérins (d. AD 445) (and mistakenly placing him in the 15th century, making him 1000 years younger), this statement should be noted: “The flow of history and grace goes from the bottom to the top.” As for history, it remains to be seen, but as for grace, Holy Scripture formally says the opposite. St. James writes in his canonical epistle: “Every good gift, every perfect grace, comes down from above, from the Father of lights.” How could it come from below?
This lack of transcendence, so characteristic of the new liturgy, is the complete opposite of the traditional Latin Mass, which expresses this truth in so many ways: in the texts, through gestures, through ceremonies, in other words, and through everything that makes up the rite. The turning of the altar, the radical diminishment of the liturgical spirit, and communion in the hand while standing are all impoverishments that bring the new rite closer to Protestant worship.
Is this a culture of deconstruction? This is what we have witnessed after the Second Vatican Council, particularly in the liturgy. Francis clearly wants the traditional Miss to disappear.
(Source : Espera – FSSPX.Actualités)