Liturgy Quotes

Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship betwe...

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it...

Beauty, then, is not mere decoration, but rather an essential element of the liturgical action, sinc...

Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the communi...

Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation...

We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that...

The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it i...

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other t...