A Leaven In The World… Ad Orientem “Starter Kit” For Your Parish Priest
By FR. KEVIN M. CUSICK For a properly formed priest, nothing he does is more important for the People of God than his proper and reverent celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. As a newly ordained priest preparing for my first parish assignment in 1992, however, I braced myself to enter a liturgical “no-man’s land” where anything goes and in which my study of and my understanding of the liturgy were not valued and would be easily rejected. As one who valued the liturgy as the way to God which makes every church the “house of God and gate of Heaven,” I had to find a way to negotiate through a Catholic world disoriented away from the Lord…Continue Reading