Hitherto, I've steered clear of blogging about liturgy. After all, with two young daughters, I'm subjected to quite enough nasty name-calling as it is. However, something truly amazing happened to me on Saturday evening. So here goes...
First, some background. For several years, my wife and I have been thinking, talking, and occasionally writing on the implications and implementations of Vatican II's liturgical reforms. I dare say we'll be doing so for several years more.
After all, "that the sacrifice of the Mass, even in the ritual forms of its celebration, may become pastorally efficacious to the fullest degree" (Sacrosanctum Concilium 49) is a difficult aspiration to live up to. And so, over the last fifty years, it has proven.
