Liturgical Catechesis and the Sacramentary

There was terrible confusion everywhere. If somebody did not like a devotion or prayer, he simply called it “unliturgical”. Others, on the contrary, used the word liturgical for name-calling. A person who was just queer or “arty” or somehow different in his views was given the stamp: he is a liturgist. You could hardly say anything worse of him under the law of Christian charity. Being liturgical smacked not only of heresy, stubbornness and a hankering for novelty it was almost a moral blemish. (Orate Fratres [Collegeville, MN: The Liturgical Press, 1939],152.)

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