The idea of "active participation" that ratzinger mentions is the only one I had ever heard of until you mentioned this other type. The Eastern Churches continue to teach this idea of active participation. I don't know how people could be confused by thinking people must be visibly engaged in action at all times as if the liturgy is the assembly line at the ford automobile plant...what caused this confusion in the 1950/60's western industrialized world?
The idea of "active participation" that ratzinger mentions is the only one I had ever heard of until you mentioned this other type. The Eastern Churches continue to teach this idea of active participation. I don't know how people could be confused by thinking people must be visibly engaged in action at all times as if the liturgy is the assembly line at the ford automobile plant...what caused this confusion in the 1950/60's western industrialized world?
LiturgicalChants 2 years ago