{"id":646,"date":"2009-05-19T19:58:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/05\/quote-of-the-day-13.html"},"modified":"2009-05-19T19:58:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-19T19:58:00","slug":"quote-of-the-day-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/05\/quote-of-the-day-13.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;We need to foster worship which stuns, which leaves the newcomer, long-time practicing Catholic, above all the fallen-away simply thunder stuck.  Worship must at some point leave people speechless in awe.  We need language and music and gesture which in its beauty floods the mind with light even while it swells the heart to bursting.<\/p>\n<p>The more people encounter mystery through liturgy, the more hollow will clang the false or incomplete messages of those who have strayed from the good path, either to the left or to the right. <\/p>\n<p>Our goal must be that which is good and beautiful because it is true, that which reflects what is of God, not man\u2019s image merely.  Give us mystery, not fabrications smacking of the world, fallen and transitory.&#8221;<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: right\">&#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/wdtprs.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/my-take-on-sunday-at-notre-dame\/\">Fr. Z.<\/a>, after watching what unfolded in South Bend, Indiana on Sunday.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We need to foster worship which stuns, which leaves the newcomer, long-time practicing Catholic, above all the fallen-away simply thunder stuck. 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