and engagement with the action of Christ in the Sacred Liturgy is. For the former, vernacularization and ritual pedestrianization were essential means to the desired end. For the latter they are not, because Catholic liturgy is (as the Christian East has never forgotten) intrinsically latreutic—it is the worship of Almighty God, not a means of our own self-expression. It is inherently traditional—we receive its forms, we don’t construct them. And its pastoral efficacy flows not from the measure it