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“We May Not Fully Understand…”: Reality Beyond Words

Tradition and Sanity

The revised liturgy was supposed to be, and was claimed and asserted to be, “more accessible.” Almost exclusively, accessibility was understood as primarily or exclusively a verbal-conceptual phenomenon. The reform introduced a fundamental tension between allowing the liturgy to be mysterious, as it must be, and trying, in the name of liturgical science, to purge it of the very features that tended to make it aweful, fearful, darksome, intricate, wondrous, and yet, paradoxically, also orderly and ordering, familiar and comforting, unassuming and free of invasive sources of irritation. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.traditionsanity.com/subscribe