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“A return to apparent cultural poverty [the restriction of permitted music in the liturgy in response to Gnosticism] saved the identity of biblical faith, and the very rejection of false inculturation opened up the cultural breadth of Christianity for the future.”

Words that could be applicable to elevate the state of liturgical music today.

“[W]orship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together.”

Ratzinger the integralist

Papa Ratzinger, we meet again

“[W]e cannot change ourselves by our own efforts… all progress in the spiritual life, every victory over ourselves, is a gift of God’s grace.”