Oops. The title of this post is supposed to say “Big Papal Mass,” not Big Papal Meass (unless “Meass” actually means something). Otherwise, it’s a typo.
And I can’t get a ticket to save my soul....
I’m not a Latin, as most of you know. I can say that we Orthodox were not enthused at all with the spectacle Masses popularized by +JPII. They had a circus atmosphere to them which certainly is foreign to our liturgical experience. I know that the Phanar and, I am told, the MP did not react favorably to them and were not quiet about it. These comments by +BXVI are, as is so much of what he says and does, very welcome.