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The ChangeoverThe thousands who took part in the Masses in Kiel auditorium in St. Louis in the recent Liturgical Week there are still exclaiming over their first experience with English in the Mass. They repeatedly use words like “inspiring,” “thrilling,” and “deeply satisfying” in describing their reaction to the Masses which approached tne ideal in congregational participation.We were glad to note that many of the week’sspeakers warned that it won’t be so easy to achieve this high degree of participation with congregations for whom the liturgy is scarcely more than a name. Veterans in the liturgical movement thought it important to caution that the mere introduction of English in parts of the Mass will not of itself produce the results sought by Vatican II.The pressing need for patient and perseveringstudy on the part of all of us, therefore, deservesheavy underlying. It will have to be a study indepth, not just a memorization of the new forms* and new rubrics.Father Warren Werwage of Chadron, Ohio, put it this way in his address in St. Louis: “There always lurks the danger that we shall exchange one kind of formalism with another.”The formalism of the mute spectator, so often criticised in the past, is scarcely more deplorable than the formalism of the vocal participator who doesn’t understand what he is saying or why he is saying it.
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Cincinnati Catholic Telegraph
Cincinnati, Ohio, US
Fri, Sep 11, 1964
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