The Mass is called the Divine Liturgy because it is our participation—right now, here and on earth—in what is eternally going on in Heaven. The Son offers Himself eternally to the Father and ...

So, he sent trusted representatives to request missionaries and to witness the Divine Liturgy celebrated in the ... that their experience of going to Mass is anything but heavenly.

One of Pope Francis’ most controversial moves was to restrict the use of the ancient Latin Mass; he said he did this to promote unity among the Catholic Church.

However the Divine Liturgy is always the Great Prayer of Christ ... A distinction is made between the “ordinary” form, the Mass we use in the missal of 1970, and the “extraordinary ...

Nor does the pontiff wish for the Catholic Mass to be reduced to “a ... celebrations function as a pull toward the divine, dismissing today’s liturgy as too austere. “If the reform has ...