Thought Provoking Read On Liturgy
  • scholistascholista
    Posts: 109
    I'm just getting started on a thought provoking read: The Heresy Of Formlessness by Martin Mosbach - a German layman. It is subtitled The Roman Liturgy And Its Enemy.

    Anyone read this and care to comment?
  • Adam WoodAdam Wood
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    I can comment that it is on my (long) list.
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  • scholistascholista
    Posts: 109
    Here are a couple of quotes to illustrate what I mean by thought provoking.

    What applies in art must apply to a far higher degree in the public prayer of the Church; if, in ordinary life, ugliness shows us the presence of untruth, in the realms of religion it may indicate something worse. (p.15)

    What did the disciples' 'active participation' consist of in the Upper Room, when they let Christ wash their feet? What was the 'active participation' of Mary and John as they stood beneath the Cross? It consisted of beholding, letting it happen, watching and praying. (p.82)
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