Tuesday, October 09, 2007

Heard this before?

What is it you want?
A church without mystery, stripped of ... learning, tolerance and dignity... ?
A church without humility in the face of the ineffable mystery and love of Almighty God?
Services with banal hymns, a debased liturgy
and the Eucharist conducted as if it were a parish bean feast?
A cool church for cool Britania?

(Father Sebastian to Archdeacon Crampton in Death in Holy Orders by P.D. James)

No!