Saturday, November 27
Fr. Martin Hellriegel's agenda for the 1940 "Liturgical Week" Conference, quoted in Dom Alcuin Reid's The Organic Development of the Liturgy, p. 106:
1. We must do away with all slovenliness and routine. Sancta sancte, God's things must be done in God's way!
2. Back, therefore, to a holier and worthier celebration of the Christ-life-carrying and the Christ-life-giving mysteries, the Holy Sacrifice, the sacraments and the sacramentals.
3. Back to the Sunday High Mass, 52 times a year. It is the ideal way of celebrating the Lord's death, particularly on the Lord's day.
4. Back to an active participation by every member of the parish in the prayers and chants of the Church.
5. Back to a more earnest preparation and more joyful announcement of the living word of God. Back to the "homily" patterned after the homilies of the Fathers.
6. Back to Sunday and feastday Vespers.
7. Back to a fitting celebration of the patronal feast.
8. Back to our cassock and surplice for the administration of the sacraments to the sick. The time has come for the embryo of a stole put over the civilian coat to make room for vestments that are a "worthy frame around God's picture."
9. Back to Advent, Lent, and ember days cleansed from lottos, bingos and buncos.
10. In short: Back to a sentire cum Ecclesia for the purpose of restoring true Catholic parochial life in the cell of Christ's Mystical Body, the parish.
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