The Recovering Choir Director

Jeffrey Herbert writes:

[Msgr. Guido Marini's recent presentation on the spirit of the liturgy] is a forward looking vision for the liturgy, an interpretive foundation for the Missal of Paul VI which brings it out of the morass of inculturating adaptations, innovations and experiments and seeks instead to set it within the liturgical traditions of the Church. This has been the point of Pope Benedict’s reforms up to this point…to set the Missal of Paul VI within the context of the Church’s liturgical tradition.

And yet, the reactions to Msgr. Marini’s address and to Pope Benedict’s initiatives all too often appeal to the well-worn cliche: “Let’s not turn back the clock”…

…but I fail to see how it is “turning back the clock”. May I suggest that it is actually a case of “winding up a clock” that was long ago allowed to run out, hurriedly replaced by a new improved LED timepiece whose red-against-black square numbers are beginning to look rather dated themselves. [Full post]