Instead of looking at Christ, [the Church] focuses on herself and that leads her to be concerned about her appearance to the world. The emblematic posture of the bride focused on her mirror instead of on her spouse seems to have found a liturgical expression in the assembly turned in on itself and no longer turned towards the Lord due to the loss of celebration ad orientem. If the Church is more concerned with herself than with her Lord, if she is more focused on the people at Mass than on God, she has become an adulteress, an idolatress.
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