{"id":47473,"date":"2019-05-21T02:00:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=47473"},"modified":"2019-05-26T08:13:20","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T13:13:20","slug":"brief-book-review-the-rites-and-wrongs-of-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/21\/brief-book-review-the-rites-and-wrongs-of-liturgy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brief Book Review: The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><em>The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy: Why Good Liturgy Matters<\/em> by Thomas O&#8217;Loughlin<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"267\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4563-267x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-47477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4563-267x400.jpg 267w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4563-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/4563.jpg 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 267px) 100vw, 267px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Who should read this?<\/strong> Presiders (and presiders-in-training), liturgical ministers (and liturgical ministers-in-training), liturgy committees, pastoral ministers (and pastoral ministers-in-training), catechists, Christians (and Christians-in-training, that is, Christians), anyone seeking deeper understanding of the purpose and meaning of liturgical celebrations<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the main point?<\/strong> Offers ten principles of good liturgy: it is honest, it is joyful, it facilitates engagement, it is inclusive, it is based in Creation, it prioritizes the marginalized, it avoids clutter, it follows the pattern of the Incarnation, and it is open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What intrigued me the most?<\/strong> Reflects on theologically and ritually subtle \u2013 but important and often overlooked \u2013 distinctions, in highly accessible language. For example, from the fifth principle, \u201cGood liturgy is inclusive\u201d: \u201cOnce we are in a society where commitment to God is viewed as an option, the work of the faithful has to take on a missionary dimension\u2026 Similarly, if we conceive of liturgy as a joyful response to God\u2019s loving invitation, rather than the fulfillment of an imposed duty, then we have to reformulate how we think of any act of exclusion. Exclusion or discrimination is now tantamount to saying God\u2019s invitation is not to all.\u201d (p. 69)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What bugged me the most?<\/strong> \u201cDon\u2019t judge a book\u2026\u201d: My first impression viewing the book\u2019s cover was of a \u201970\u2019s mini-banner made by a second-grader (albeit a talented one) preparing for First Communion.&nbsp;&nbsp;On reflection, and after reading the book\u2019s rich contents, I believe this cover-art may be brilliantly designed, in that it could well be inviting to some who should read&nbsp;<em>The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy<\/em> but would have resisted if the cover cried anything like \u201cAcademy!\u201d (or far worse, \u201cMuseum!\u201d).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What will get you thinking?<\/strong> Among many other things, how a book about liturgical principles was modeled after architectural and design principles of the German designer, Deiter Rams. (O\u2019Loughlin discusses this in <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/gOU65JSFHmE\">his brief online interview<\/a>.)\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What will most inspire you?<\/strong> A well-educated, pastorally mature, and refreshingly non-polemical vision that both honors ritual needs and witnesses to the underlying mystery of Christian liturgy&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Kudos<\/strong> O\u2019Loughlin manages to capture the spirit of some well-known books in a similar vein, like Aidan Kavanagh\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Elements of Rite<\/em>,&nbsp;&nbsp;Gabe Huck\u2019s&nbsp;<em>Liturgy with Style and Grace<\/em>, and Dennis Smolarski\u2019s&nbsp;<em>How Not To Say Mass<\/em>.&nbsp;<em>The Rites and Wrongs of Liturg<\/em>y differs from these others in that it does not get as far into the weeds of any specific rite, but it names as well as these the \u201cbig-picture\u201d principles upon which one might assess \u201cgood\u201d liturgy. It does so for a Church that since these classics\u2019 initial appearance has seen more ebb than flow in both the promise and the reality of full, conscious, and active liturgical participation, and is thus fully cognizant that for contemporary worshipers, \u201cfaith is an option.\u201d Unlike the Christian societies of the past, \u201c<em>believing<\/em> and&nbsp;<em>belonging<\/em> [for us] are invitations, not assumptions\u2026 If liturgy turns us off, or gives us a confused idea of the conversion called for\u2026, then worship has become self-destructive\u201d (p.9). In this our age of fake news, O\u2019Loughlin reminds us that we operate out of \u201ctwo models of truth [that] rarely overlap\u201d: \u201cpoetry and relationships\u201d on the one hand, and \u201cphysics and facts\u201d on the other. \u201cBut where they do overlap is ritual; our liturgy is fully part of the factual world, but it is simultaneously open to mystery\u201d (p.105).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>O\u2019Loughlin, Thomas.&nbsp;<em>The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy: Why Good Liturgy Matters<\/em>. Liturgical Press 2018, 109 + x pages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:right\"><strong>REVIEWER: David Stosur<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><em>David Stosur serves as Professor of Religious Studies at Cardinal Stritch University and specializes in liturgical and sacramental history and theology.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rites and Wrongs of Liturgy: Why Good Liturgy Matters by Thomas O&#8217;Loughlin Who should read this? 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