For most of our contemporaries the idea of entering into holy days has all but been removed from their psyches, …and the reason for this I think has to do with a subtle but powerful shift in thinking. And the shift is this: rather than seeing a holy day as something that brings with it its own content; …its own requirements, movements and expectations; …many today in the Christian world see holy days as simply the cessation of work. And when that happens, …we not only break f

If the liturgy is going to evangelize then it must be on its own terms. If it is going to point the people of God upward then it must be allowed to do so in the way it was fashioned to. And liturgy – the holy sacrifice of the Mass – evangelizes the baptized by using language and imagery and sound that is of this world and yet strangely beyond it. And it is for that very reason that the liturgy should not be used as the model for evangelization of the unbaptized. Look at it an