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We pray in silence. "Participation" in the Mass does not mean hearing our own voices. It means God hearing our voices. Only He knows who is "participating" at Mass. I believe, to compare small things with great, that I "participate" in a work of art when I study it and love it silently. No need to shout. Anyone who has taken part in a play knows that he can rant on the stage with his mind elsewhere. If the Germans want to be noisy, let them, But why should they disturb our devotions?
"Diversity" is deemed by the Progressives as one of their aims against the stifling Romanità. May they allow it to English Catholics.
I am now old but I was young when I was received into the Church. I was not at all attracted by the splendour of her great ceremonies — which the Protestants could well counterfeit. Of the extraneous attractions of the Church which most drew me was the spectacle of the priest and his server at low Mass, stumping up to the altar without a glance to discover how many or how few he had in his congregation ; a craftsman and his apprentice ; a man with a job which he alone was qualified to do.
That is the Mass I have grown to know and love. By all means let the rowdy have their "dialogues", but let us who value silence not be completely forgotten.
Your obedient servant,
Evelyn Waugh

From: A letter to the Editor of The Catholic Herald
7 August 1964

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