World Youth Day urgently needs these three reforms

World Youth Day divides Catholics. While some rave about it and jump back and forth with a "DJ priest" at the end, others see WYD as the display of an inner emotional religion that has nothing to do with the traditional Catholic faith. Especially the handling of the Eucharist, the Holy Mass and adoration is criticised.

Modernism has no aesthetic sense. 

1st Reform: The Eucharist must be distributed with dignity

It is absolutely out of the question for lay people to distribute the Holy Eucharist with Ikea cups and plastic bags and to hand it out to anyone who asks for it. Only priests should distribute communion as kneeling oral communion.

2nd Reform: Mission, not inter-religious dialogue

Inter-religious and ecumenical "dialogue" must be replaced by mission. WYD must serve to make Catholic youth missionary and to make their environment Catholic. The principle applies that only the Catholic Church is the Church of Jesus Christ and that the Church is all-salvific. So: missionary, missionary, missionary.

3rd Reform: traditional forms of piety instead of a plastic tabernacle and "DJ priests".

What is Catholic is determined by Scripture and tradition. To place the Blessed Sacrament not in a precious tabernacle but in a plastic box is an absolute scandal. There is certainly also a difference between church and disco. Those who want to go to a disco should do so. But if you want to experience Catholic piety, you should attend the Old Mass, know Latin responsories and listen to chorales. There is a timeless Catholic aesthetic whose style is above any secular fashion.

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