Great post! It seems to me that we need to relearn not only the beauty but the necessity of that which is given. The liturgy teaches us that we need not reinvent everything, as it has been gifted to us already. The repetition will, of course, always be non-identical, to use Catherine Pickstock’s phrasing, but it’s a repetition nonetheless.
Great post! It seems to me that we need to relearn not only the beauty but the necessity of that which is given. The liturgy teaches us that we need not reinvent everything, as it has been gifted to us already. The repetition will, of course, always be non-identical, to use Catherine Pickstock’s phrasing, but it’s a repetition nonetheless.
As Fr Greeney often opined when he was serving at Little St Mary's in Cambridge, "the liturgy is inherited, not invented" (or words to that effect).
Yes, exactly!