The Josias Podcast, Episode X: Liturgy and the Common Good

Honking geese, Byzantine chariot racing, and a rousing discussion of the deep and essential connection between the liturgy and the common good—in this episode, your hosts are joined by Jonathan Culbreath and Doctor Peter Kwasniewski. Along the way, they discuss the liturgy as focal point for the common good in the church and in secular society, public versus private devotion, and compare Charles de Koninck’s defense of the common good against personalists and totalitarians with Erik Peterson and Romano Guardini’s defense of the liturgy against certain members of the liturgical reform movement. In the end the inevitable technical difficulties serendipitously keep the discussion on time. All this and much, much more!

Music for this episode is the “Sanctus” from the Missa Honorificentia Populi Nostri, by Peter Kwasniewski. The header image shows church bells in Nowa Huta, Poland.

Bibliography

Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Politics and the Liturgical Movement,” Sancrucensis (blog), Feb. 8, 2014;
Peter Kwasniewski, “A Defense of Liturgy as ‘Carolingian Court Ritual’,” New Liturgical Movement, Jan. 30, 2017;
Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good,” Peregrine Magazine, April 11, 2018;
Adrian Vermeule, “Liturgy of Liberalism” review of Lyszard Legutko , The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, First Things, Jan. 2017;
Dom Karl Wallner, O. Cist., “The Profanation of the Sacred and the Sacralisation of the Profane,” Aug. 31, 2016;
Erik Peterson, “The Book of the Angels,” in Theological Tractates;
Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy, 1918;
Charles De Koninck, On the Primacy of the Common Good: Against the Personalists.

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