“We are not justified by our wisdom, intelligence, piety, or by any action of ours, however holy, but by faith, the one means by which God has justified men from the beginning.” (St. Clement I, Pope, “Letter to the Corinthians”)

“There is this much to be said for the impossible ideal of rigid uniformity of rite, that without it Christians unconsciously grow to pray and so to believe somewhat differently, and mutual charity becomes increasingly difficult.” (The Shape of the Liturgy, Dom Gregory Dix, London: Dacre Press, 1945, p. 121)

“…for it is now plain that despite all the deference to critical methods which liberal scholars sincerely endeavoured to pay, their conclusions were as often dictated by their presuppositions as by their actual handling of the evidence.” (The Shape of the Liturgy, Dom Gregory Dix, London: Dacre Press, 1945, p. 70)

“Whenever and wherever the eucharistic action is changed, i.e., whenever and wherever the standard structure of the rite has been broken up or notably altered, there it will be found that some part of the primitive fulness of the meaning of the eucharist has been lost. And–in the end–it will be found that this has…

“It is especially necessary that listening to the word of God should become a life-giving encounter, in the ancient and ever valid tradition of lectio divina, which draws from the biblical text the living word which questions, directs, and shapes our lives.” (Apostolic Letter Novo Millennio Ineunte, Pope John Paul II, Jan. 6, 2001, Art.…