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We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.

Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus or theater - making the Gospel visible as a witness to the world around us.

Then suddenly the Roman liturgy disappeared as we knew it.

In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.

Catholic liturgical music, it would seem, is everywhere but in the Catholic Church itself.

If we may not remain silent about evil in the Church, then neither should we keep silent about the great shining path of goodness and purity which the Christian faith has traced out over the course of the centuries.

Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.

Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.

The democratic and pedestrian character of the new Mass itself seems to invite the ditties that pass for hymns these days.