'Is a ritual a forgotten way of doing things?' That was the question posed famously by Romano Guardini in a letter written in 1964 to liturgists meeting in the German city of Mainz. Guardini believed that the future of liturgical renewal lay not in 'improved texts,' nor in the recovery of some mythic 'golden age,' or in the 'reangement of furniture,' but in relearning ritual behavior. This book tries to answer that question.
