Foundation Quote by Dorothy Day

The liturgy, like the feast, exists not to educate but to seduce people into participating in common activity of the highest order, where one…

— Aidan Kavanagh

By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and…

— Pope Benedict XVI

Prayer is meaningless unless it is subversive, unless it seeks to overthrow and to ruin the pyramids of callousness, hatred, opportunism, falsehoods. The liturgical…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

It is impossible to have a prayer without power.

— Gary Zukav

I wonder that among all the evils deprecated in the Liturgy, no one thought of inserting flitting. Is there any worse thing? Oh no,…

— Jane Welsh Carlyle

Liturgy and worship were never meant to be confined to the cathedrals and sanctuaries. Liturgy at its best can be performed like a circus…

— Shane Claiborne

It is more necessary than ever to intensify liturgical life ... by means of an appropriate formation ... of all the faithful...

— Pope John Paul II

“The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it to being unwilling to dress in any…

— N.T. Wright

“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting killed.”

— Annie Dillard

We cannot pray and remain the same.

— Ruth Graham

Without the Eucharist, the Church simply does not exist.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“But here is my hope: God willing, when he wills and as he wills, the reform of the reform will take place in the…

— Robert Sarah