Peter Nguyen’s Reviews > The Spirit of the Liturgy > Status Update

“It may well be that kneeling is alien to modern culture—insofar as it is a culture, for this culture has turned away from the faith and no longer knows the One before whom kneeling is the right… [and] necessary gesture… [A] faith or a liturgy no longer familiar with kneeling would be sick at the core.”

“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