Peter Kwasniewski Quotes

Having The Mass In One's Native Language Is No Guarantee That A Person Will Understand The Mystery Of The Mass. On The Contrary, If The Vesture Of The Ceremony Is Too Familiar, The Participants Too Easily Thinks He Has Mastered What It's All About. The Familiar Becomes The Routine, The Routine Becomes Ignored. Our Own Language Is A Comfort Zone That Insulates Us Form The Shock Of The Gospel, The Scandal Of The Cross, The Lure Of The Unknown. I Would Rather Have A Huge Dose Of Foreignness, Of Music That Is Not Current, Words That Are Strange, Language That Is Archaic, Hieratic Gestures That Are Grandly Incongruous To A Democratic Society. A Person Thrown Into This Situation Knows At Least That He Is Dealing With Something Utterly Different And Possibly Far Deeper Than His Day-to-day Occupations.

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