"In the period following the [Second Vatican] Council, of course, the Constitution on the liturgy was understood, no longer on the basis of this fundamental primacy of adoration, but quite simply as a recipe book concerned with what we can do with the liturgy. In the meantime many liturgical experts, rushing into considerations about how we can shape the liturgy in a more attractive way, to communicate better, so as to get more and more people involved have apparently quite lost sight of the fact that the liturgy is actually 'done' for God and not for ourselves. The more we do it for ourselves, however, the less it attracts people, because everyone can clearly sense that what is essential is increasingly eluding us." -JCR (Benedisct XVI) Pilgrim Fellowship of Faith, p 126.
