Fascinating thesis here, put forward by one Dom Karl Wallner, O. Cis. (Cistercian), rector of the Pontifical University of Heiligenkreuz and national director of Missio for Austria, in the blog Canticum Salomonis A Blog for Liturgical Ressourcement,
The last few decades have brought a stark alteration of Catholic cult, liturgy, art, and architecture that many perceive as a break and a rupture, or even as an outright destruction of the former dignity and sacrality. In the long theological debates of the 1970s, “desacralisation” [Brit spelling, sorry] was treated as an imperative for the modernisation of the Church.
Get rid of the mumbo-jumbo, you know. I do know I wonder about the elevation of the everyday and diminution of the sacred in the mass and how a zeal for making things easier to understand has removed the mystery of it all. Not that clarity has won the day. No. There’s been no concomitant outbreak of clarity.
Dom Wallner, continued:
Along with desacralisation inside the Church there was another phenomenon, which I was able to experience . . . in my encounters with the profane world of show business: a form of sacralisation of the profane, a ritualisation of the banal, the promotion of non-religious objects to the level of cult objects.
From the backstage of the show to which I had been invited, I could observe how the show was designed down the last detail as a sort of dramaturgy, so that the viewer in front of the television participated in a kind of “Pontifical Mass of Entertainment.”
That sounds a bit much, but he makes his point. Judge for yourself by reading further.
via Dom Karl Wallner: The Profanation of the Sacred and the Sacralisation of the Profane
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