A Brief Directory of Elementary Ritual: Chiefly Eucharistic (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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The need for such a book as this should be evident. It can hardly be denied that, owing to defective training, and to bad traditions handed down from careless times, there is still apparent amongst us much ignorance, if not actual irreverence, both in the celebration of Divine worship, and also in the administration of the Sacraments, - an ignorance and carelessness as lamentable perhaps as anything of the kind recorded in the history of Western Christendom, during the most unenlightened periods of the Church's history.

Defective training, I would repeat, or, in many cases, the absence of any training at all, is one chief cause of this and of many other deplorable evils, unhappily characteristic of our present religious condition. If we take, for example, our modern standard of preaching, we shall see this illustrated. There are amongst us a certain number of great preachers, who, owing to their special gifts, or to exceptional earnestness, have risen to well-earned eminence. But that the general average of our preaching is not satisfactory is a melancholy fact that cannot be denied. A vast number of our clergy neither know how to preach, nor, alas, what to preach.

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