Throwback Thursday: C.S. Lewis on the Liturgy
Note: This was originally published on February 9, 2011. — Ed.
This is perennially quoted and relates to the conversation which Fr. Beane's manifesto Real Worship incited.
From Letters to Malcolm, Chiefly on Prayer:
It looks as if they believed people can be lured to go to church by incessant brightenings, lightenings, lengthenings, abridgements, simplifications, and complications of the service. And it is probably true that a new, keen vicar will usually be able to form within his parish a minority who are in favour of his innovations. The majority, I believe, never are. Those who remain -- many give up churchgoing altogether -- merely endure.