The «full, conscious, and active participation
in liturgical celebrations... to which the Christian people, «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a
redeemed people» [1 Peter 2.9, 4 - 5], have a right and obligation by reason of their baptism» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 14), is not advanced when those Christian people are treated as if they were dimwits, or five - year - olds with
short attention
spans.