And this has been for years one of the points on which he has collided with novelties in the postconciliar Church. He has had harsh words for the transformation of the mass and liturgies "into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors." He has said similar things about the dismantling of sacred music. "How often we celebrate only ourselves, without even taking Him into account," he commented in his meditations for the Stations of the Cross last Good Friday. Here, "Him" refers to Jesus Christ, the one forgotten by liturgies changed into convivial gatherings.
Benedict XVI has never hidden his reservations even about the mass liturgies celebrated by his predecessor. No one in the curia of John Paul II was more free, or more critical, than he was.
This reinforces my opinion that Piero Marini will not be the pontifical MC for much longer.
"into spectacles that require directors of genius and talented actors."
Heck, the American translation of the Scriptures is so flat that it take a trained actor to project their meaning with any clarity at all. We lectors have a devil of a time, and when you get someone who deons't have the faintest idea of how to read aloud, it can be prerty awful. But why is i t that modernists hate beauty? I guess because they are Purtians at heart, On the other hand, that it is to do injustice to the Puritans, most of whom were earthy men.