a self-fulfilling prophecy. Church people who now prayed Sunday after Sunday without the old confessions and penitential prayers became, well, a lot less penitential. The fact is, theology has to precede the act of worship. You pray what you believe, not vice versa. It is an axiom here—it has to be an axiom in this consideration of formal-liturgical worship—that truth grounds prayer, not the other way around. Right thinking about God, Christ, and the condition of the human race is essential in forming