Fr. Seán ÓLaoire

I was in the Diocese of San Jose celebrating this liturgy.

Then we founded the new community when I was thrown out of the Diocese of San Jose.

But we still use the old liturgy.

But my theology and the liturgy I was celebrating were totally at variance with each other.

So people were saying, you know, you need to change one or the other.

You know, the liturgy is saying the opposite of what your homilies are saying.

So we need to resolve this.

So I read the introduction to this.

This booklet, which I created in 2008, this booklet is a revision of the Mass, which I have written as a result of the questionnaire, community meetings, and homilies,

dealing with the topic of bringing our liturgy and our theology into alignment with each other.

In doing this, I have tried to combine elegance and tradition to prune bad theology and bad psychology.

I wanted to create a liturgy that celebrates 13 billion years of God's love affair with the entire universe, and not simply a sectarian, anthropocentric ritual that focuses only on human frailty.

Though we can all experience the ineffable transcendence of God, we cannot articulate it.

But we can use poetry, art, symbol, and metaphor to give expression to God's immanence.

We are the Word made flesh.

Everything that exists is an incarnation of God.

The Eucharistic prayer of the cosmos, which is the core of the liturgy, seeks to portray this in poetic metaphors.

So I literally, I sat down at the 26th of December, 2008, and in 90 minutes, you know, I produced this.

I literally just channeled it.

So I call it the Eucharistic Prayer of the Cosmos.