This May 10, Pope Francis received in audience at the Vatican the Delegation of the Higher Institute of Liturgy of Barcelona (Spain), whom he warned that the liturgy without God is “an aberration.”
After welcoming them in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican, the Holy Father expressed his desire that in the studies they carry out they reflect “on the need to seek union with the Lord and the means that He, through the Church, gives us. has given to achieve it.”
For the Pontiff, “the liturgy also reminds us that this encounter around God is for everyone” and he stated “man is for the liturgy, because he is for God, but a liturgy without this union of man with God is an aberration.” ”.