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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 August 2024
What is the liturgy? What does one mean by a grammar school? What has each to do with the other? The burden of this paper is to essay some answers to each of these questions, endeavouring to develop maturer concepts of education and liturgy, and to make practical suggestions about the place of liturgy in the life of the school. The liturgy has an important part to play in the Catholic education of all children, so that much of what I have to say will apply to other kinds of school, and it will apply for the most part equally to girls and boys, though I shall generally refer to boys. My own teaching experience in Catholic schools has been largely confined to the grammar school, but this is not the sole reason why I have preferred to speak of the grammar school and the liturgy. I believe that the grammar school offers exceptional opportunities not only for training its own pupils in a right sense and practice of liturgy, but also for assisting the whole Catholic body in this country to arrive at a more realistic understanding of the liturgical life of the Church.
A paper read on nth November i960 at a study conference on ‘Teaching Children the Liturgy’ at Spode House.
2 Liturgia est opus glorificationis Dei et sanctificationis Hominis, quod communitas ecdesiastica, ut excellentiam divinam subjectionemque sui ad Deum Patrem protestetur, tninisterio sacerdotali Christi pioque affiatu Spiritus Sancti celebrat. Hermanus A. P. Schmidt, s.j., Introductio inLiturgiam Occidentalem; Herder, Rome, 1960.
3 J. B. O'Connell, Commentary on the Instruction of the S.C.R., on Sacred Music and Liturgy; Burns & Oates, London, 1959.