Contemporary Worship

Abstract

"An exciting venture in today's Church is a widesprea~ experimentation which seeks to make corporate worship more meaningful. The Liturgical Movement has had this as its goal for nearly a century and a half. As a result the Roman liturgy is now said in the language of the people; and the Roman priest faces his congregation from J:reh~nd a ta_bl~. Revised Anglican liturgies-Series I and 11-mdicate a similar result. In a day when the descendants of the painter Millet's peasants are more familiar with telephone bells than the "Angelus", the Church, through liturgical renewal, is _making many people sensitive to God's presence, and helpmg them to respond authentically to Him"