Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in the Church. They will answer: Mass.
Ask a hundred Catholics what is most important in Mass. They will answer: Transubstantiation, the transformation of bread and wine into Christ’s body and blood.
Tell a hundred Catholics that the most important thing in the Church is, therefore, transformation.
They will be outraged: “No, everything should stay the same.”
Well, duh. We’ve been to the moon. Everybody knows that.
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What are yours?
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What are your 2023 liturgical New Year’s resolutions?
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Let’s get to the desert.
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No one joins a club whose motto is “Each of us looks out for No. 1.”
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Recently, I returned to in-person worship.
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Where the world might see brokenness and defeat, my son sees a peerless member of the communion of super-heroes, with powers far greater than I ever imagined.
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“When I join a communion procession, do I engage in this action as though I were a customer in line at a supermarket or an amusement park?”
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Sometimes I look at liturgy through the eyes of a rubricist.
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