Liturgy Quotations

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

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.

Leaders are for calling people to their better angels, for helping guide them to a kind of sterner, more mature sense of what we need to do. To me, Reagan's brand of leadership was what I call 'a liturgy of absolution.' He absolved Americans almost in a priestly role to contend with sin. Who wouldn't want that?

Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.

The real ""action"" in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential.

The program has enabled me to get an abroad experience while retaining seminary life, the Liturgy of the Hours, daily Eucharist, spiritual direction, etc..

I was floored by the liturgy and thought 'OK, God, you're really putting a challenge before us,'

I think the barbarity of the English language currently used in the liturgy is cause enough for sorrow without further fiddling in terms of feminist inclusiveness.

I went to three other parishes, but I really felt comfortable at St. Lawrence. I went to one liturgy and I felt that's where I belonged. My daughter was little at the time and she also felt at home there. There was so much warmth and comfort. It was a very welcoming community.

Other people have done jazz with Jewish themes, and other people have done Jewish scales and modes using materials that characterize the sound of Jewish music. I don't think many people have used the liturgy with a jazz band.

Thirty years ago, before the Vatican Council, Catholics didn't know what liturgy was.

As regards my own 'philosophy,' I continue to be inspired by the music, liturgy and architectural tradition of the Anglican Church in which I was brought up. No one can fail to be uplifted by great cathedrals - such as that at Ely, near my home in Cambridge.

all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy.