“The way to liturgical life does not go through mere teaching but before all it goes through doing.” These words of Doctor Guardini go straight to the heart of the difficulty of liturgical revival. The numerous liturgical societies and periodicals of to-day are so varied in their matter and their treatment of it, that one is sometimes at a loss to discover in them any common purpose. They all profess to have at heart the cultivation of a conscious liturgical life in the Catholic community; but the various aspects and studies of liturgy in which they indulge cannot all claim to have an equally important share in promoting this end. And indeed it is difficult to see where many of them have led or are going to lead at all. Their journals appear and their summer schools are held with unflinching regularity, yet one fails to discern any results beyond a keener appreciation of the beauty of Plainchant or Gothic vestments. This is very good in its way, but it is not all; and we are so often given the impression that it is all. Liturgy is more than this: it is a life, and therefore not something merely to be learnt; above all it is something that must be done—lived; and living is not brought about just by introducing Plainchant or studying the history or art of the liturgy;—these material adjuncts are all necessary in their own place as long as they do not degenerate into dilettante aestheticism or moribund archeology—but before all else it must be realized that liturgical life is essentially based on theological principles. If then this life is to be lived, the people must be instructed in these principles. In the words of a writer in Orate Fratres: “The first requisite for the liturgical outlook is one of spirit.