Some scholars have called the fourth and fifth centuries “the golden age” of the liturgy. I don’t agree with that assessment; I find beauties and troubling developments throughout the history of liturgy. But the Latin liturgy’s development in that period was certainly organic; in the modern period, the Latin liturgy’s development has in general been inorganic.
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Thickening our definition
Jan 16
The liturgical cult that we can see is like the part of an iceberg visible to us: it is the visible part of something much greater. To what is it connected?