A close friend of mine who is a canon lawyer once told me-—some 20 years ago-—that “liturgists are what God sends to his Church so that the laity will have something to suffer for the Faith.”
That being said, I agree with all that you have expressed in this post.
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We’re having a series of talks about the new translation at Church. My aside to a friend was that the gift of being a convert is that one is so blown away by the consolations of the Sacred Body and Precious Blood that they could worship in Pig-Latin and it would still be marvellous.
a former pastor of mine once said that the difference between a terrorist and liturgist is that you can negotiate with a terrorist.