Everyone knows by now that the Church is in the midst of a great biblical and liturgical revival. It is certainly a wonderful movement with many wonderful results. But such an accomplishment cannot occur without a certain amount of controversy. The ‘extremists’ among the liturgical enthusiasts would like all devotions to be buried forever in oblivion. The ‘conservatives’ cling to the old order; many of them still want to live nineteenth-century piety with their ‘manuals of devotion’ and rosary beads at mass in a silent church where the mass itself is a private devotion. Of course, this is stating the case rather in the extreme, and a great deal has already been done by the liturgists themselves in recent years to clarify the meaning of liturgy, - which in the past has been associated with the idea of rite and exterior ceremonial.