[Letter] Desiderio Desideravi

Apostolic Letter of Pope Francis On the Liturgical Formation of the People of God.

This is letter to the People of God is ultimately a call to return to Christian unity. The divisions that had developed in our Christian family are a shame to the Body of Christ.

Pope Francis offers the People points of meditation and prayer as well as guiding us towards understanding and learning our liturgical heritage so that what is good from the old can enliven the new.

The point I found most prescient is modern people's illiteracy of symbol. This not only exists among the faithful, but the clergy as well. The Enlightenment upturned the old world order to such a drastic degree that most of humanity scoffs at the living out the narrative of Christ: "It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me."

Believe in the Gospel and Believe in your salvation, and believe that the whole world needs to learn of this moment when God became man and died for us. Never has this happened before in history. The only new thing in History is the Incarnation and offer God makes to deify us with Him.

Original Letter:
https://www.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/apost_letters/documents/20220629-lettera-ap-desiderio-desideravi.html

0:00 - 01:04 : Introduction
01:05 - 07:09 : The Liturgy: the “Today” of Salvation History
07:10 - 11:29 : The Liturgy: Place of Encounter with Christ
11:30 - 13:03 : The Church: Sacrament of the Body of Christ
13:04 - 14:20 : The Theological Sense of the Liturgy
14:21 - 17:57 : The Liturgy: Antidote for the Poison of Spiritual Worldliness
17:58 - 19:53 : Rediscovering Daily the Beauty of the Truth of the Christian Celebration
19:54 - 22:43 : Amazement before the Paschal Mystery: An Essential Part of the Liturgical Act
22:44 - 44:58 : The Need for a Serious and Vital Liturgical Formation
44:59 - 1:02:16 : Ars Celebrandi
1:02:17 - 1:07:10 : Conclusion
1:07:11 - 1:08:08 : Excerpt of St Francis Assisi to his Brothers