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Worshiping the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness by Fr Jay Scott Newman I was baptized in the Episcopal Church, and there I learned to worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. When I became a Catholic, one of the most difficult adjustments for me was learning to accept the generally wretched state of the sacred liturgy in most parishes: banal language, casual atmosphere, mediocre secular music, ugly buildings badly decorated. In all too many places, the result is simply unspeakable. But this need not be. The Catholic Church gave us Chartres and Canterbury; she gave us plainchant and...