Blessed Contardo Ferrini (1859-1902), as a young man, used to go to Mass every morning. He was accompanied by one of his younger brothers. One day, after an 80-year-old priest had celebrated Mass, the little boy asked Contardo: "How is it that such an old priest says during Mass: 'ad Deum qui laetificat juventutem meam' ['to God who gives joy to my youth']? Blessed Contardo, clapping his hand on his little brother's shoulder, replied: "You must know, dear Giovanni, that whoever is in God's grace is always young! Holy Mass "has its own austerity, no rhythmic, ephemeral music is allowed", while in the Novus Ordo Eucharist "anything goes", comments ITreSentieri.it (29 November). The blog continues: "On the one hand there is the seriousness of the sacred, on the other the trivialisation of the sacred". The seriousness of the sacred does not cancel out the profane, but sublimates it: "The trivialisation of the sacred, on the other hand, is overwhelmed by the profane, until it becomes the true …More