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Anthony Esolen, Dietrich von Hildebrand, Imaginative Conservative, Liturgy, Personality, Theology
“The liturgy,” says Hildebrand, “is Christ praying.” It follows that to be transformed by the liturgy is to be transformed into Christ, which the philosopher says is the vocation of every human being. That means a transformation into the One who, as Pope Benedict has said, was all gift: all being-for, in his obedience to the Father and his love for man.”