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Donald Lippert's avatar

Seems to me that if the ‘reformers’ were aware of this treasure of meaning, they would have magnified rather than reformed!

Peter Kwasniewski's avatar

Yes. One wonders how poor their education was in liturgy. This has always been a problem: liturgy is like the ugly-duckling-stepchild of seminary curricula, it hardly gets attention. Instead there is talk of validity, who can do what and when, and pastoral issues; but not a direct, meditative engagement with the depths of the liturgical rites as such. This is why the traditional seminaries today are really "cutting edge," as they are doing precisely this.