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		"This is not Catholicism. This is liturgical bolshevism." Excellent blog at Ad Orientem today: .... Here we have the liturgist as modern-art critic, explaining the symbolism behind the latest innovation in worship as performance art. An argument for Mass in the vernacular was that it made the rite more accessible for the average worshiper. But if a standing class of liturgist-critics is required to intepret all the new "symbols" they are constantly inventing, from "pilgrim" folding chairs to the filling of holy-water fonts with sand, has the Mass been made truly more accessible to the average person in the pew (or "pilgrim" chair)? .... Lane Core Jr. CIW P — Mon. 09/23/02 07:18:05 PM Categorized as Classic.

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