Traditional historical narratives about the Council of Trent and Catholic Reform frequently assert that many reforms pushed laypeople further from their preferred, long-standing devotional practices. The push to reform certain practices and groups, most notably confraternities, is seen as antithetical to lay priorities and desires and blamed for alienating the common laity. Looking at lay participation and reactions to reform allows historians to gauge lay interest in reform, but many of these works look only at the initial impact of reforms in the mid-late sixteenth century. Truly gauging the effects of reform requires a longer scope – even if those initially confronted with change resented the imposition of new practices, over time laypeople had different reactions. In the diocese of Padua, reform had an overall positive effect on lay participation by the late 17th century. By the 1660s, participation in and enthusiasm for several of the confraternities supported or pushed by the Catholic Church, particularly the Holy Sacrament and Rosary, rose astronomically. This chapter argues that rather than turning laity off from confraternities, the reforms of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the diocese of Padua revitalized religiosity, and that the rise of these confraternities demonstrates the laity’s engagement in, acceptance of, and in many cases enthusiasm for certain elements of reform. While the initial reaction of laypeople whose traditional practices were disrupted may have been negative, when the reforms were given time to settle, they ultimately brought laypeople into the fold with greater enthusiasm than before. At the same time, laypeople did not blindly accept all of the Church’s promoted devotions in Padua and did maintain some of their traditional preferences. From this, we can see both what the rural Paduans accepted and rejected in the Church’s plan, and gain a better understanding of the process of negotiation between bishop and parishioners at every step of reform.