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by\u00a0Felix Neumann<\/em><\/p>\n

Cardinal Robert Sarah, prefect of the Cong\"sarah\"<\/a>regation for Divine Worship, is otherwise well-known for pithy words, and for raising his voice loudly \u2013 and now his new book is titled nothing other than \u201cThe Strength of Silence.\u201d Of course he does not fail to provide powerful imagery, the devil has his prominent place, and his view of the world is pessimistic. For the cardinal from Guinea, the world is hectic, dominated by technology, alienated from God. Resistance against this is the call of the hour. And for Sarah it is clear: what the church needs is \u201cnot an administrative reform, the next pastoral program, or a change in structures.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it is worth it to read accurately what drives him, and not let oneself be scared away by ecclesio-political geography that divides everything into \u201cright\u201d and \u201cleft.\u201d Sarah critiques a liturgy that is too wordy, too explanatory, too rational, and yet is too sensitive. \u201cWe risk reducing the holy mystery to good feelings,\u201d he says in an interview with the French traditionalist monthly magazine La Nef.<\/em><\/p>\n

One need not share Sarah\u2019s enthusiasm for eastward liturgical orientation [ad orientem]<\/em> to find this critique plausible: Worship services in which every step is explained because one does not trust the worshiping community to celebrate actively and responsibly. Worship services that trust the liturgy so little that symbolic rituals are invented. Worship services that trust Scripture so little that touchy-feely children\u2019s books, from \u201cThe Little Prince\u201d to \u201cRainbow Fish,\u201d are lifted up to be readings.<\/p>\n

With the noblest intentions, all this is allowed into the liturgy, for liturgies should be comprehensible, approachable, connected to daily life. But the danger in this is that what is intended to be comprehensible, approachable, and \u201cnice\u201d is in fact just banal and superficial. The danger is real that the worshiping congregation focusses on itself and a pleasing aesthetic of bourgeois mediocrity \u2013 and thereby loses a certain missionary strength and spiritual depth. The successful \u2013 in the sense of \u201cwith infectious missionary spirit\u201d \u2013 liturgical movements of recent times, from Taiz\u00e9 to Nightfever<\/a>, concentrate on silence, and a liturgy that works by its own power.<\/p>\n

Cardinal Sarah is right: a renewal of the Church \u2013 even if one values pastoral plans and structural reforms more than he \u2013 will not happen without mysterium<\/em> and the sublimity of encountering God in liturgy and prayer.<\/p>\n

\"neumann\"<\/a>Felix Neumann is social media editor at katholisch.de. He has studied philosophy and political science and has been active in the Archdiocese of Freiburg in youth ministry. He is a member of the Gesellschaft katholischer Publizisten (society of Catholic publicists).<\/em><\/p>\n

Reprinted with kind\u00a0permission of katholisch.de<\/a>. Translation: AWR.<\/p>\n

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