Exasperated activism* or genuine act of renewal?

July 1, 2003 by Aristotle A. Esguerra — 1 comment
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Jane has posted, if not the entire text, selected excerpts from a letter she sent to her parish’s liturgy committee. Here are some noteworthy statements—can you say the same about your parish liturgies?

  • …silence is seldom to be found at Masses at St. –.
  • …most of the music which has been the joy and the distinction of the Church for 2000 years is nowhere to be seen at St. –. The music we sing is almost exclusively the product of the last 35 years…
  • I did not hear the sequence said or sung at Mass on Pentecost Day.
  • What I see at St.—does not look to me like the most beautiful and perfect of all prayers. As much as I remind myself that it is, my senses do not agree with my intellect.
  • I am so distracted that I cannot focus on God at the Sunday Masses at St.—as I should.

Part I | Part II | Part III

* Phrase used by Gerhard Müller, Bishop of Regensburg, during a September 2002 Vatican videoconference.

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  1. Elizabeth says:
    July 11, 2003 at 3:47 pm

    Great letter, but you never crawl out on a limb by yourself. Safety in numbers. She has lost all her credibility. The lay churchocrats will take her up on her offer to find another church.

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