age, culture, and religion, so ably expounded by someone like Mircea Eliade. As an incarnational religion, Christianity has never hesitated to use created things to point toward the Uncreated One. The Church received a rich inheritance of liturgical ritual from her mother, Judaism. A careful examination of these elements will demonstrate both the continuity and catholicity of the Church down the ages, as we have been taught by the great liturgists of an earlier generation: Joseph Jungmann, Gregory