The Proper Place of Ritual

Posted by J. Mark Bertrand
on Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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As a man often frustrated with his own lack of ceremoniousness, I found this quote from C. S. Lewis's Preface to Paradise Lost particularly keen:

"The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the worshiper's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper place of ritual."

I came across the quote on p. 345 of Jeffrey Meyers' book The Lord's Service: The Grace of Covenant Renewal Worship, not surprisingly in a chapter devoted to a minister's dress in worship.