Monday, August 09, 2021

Quote of the day

"Ritual is an instrument of the sacred. Every innovation is a profanation." -Nicolás Gómez Dávila

2 comments:

evagrius said...

Guess we'll have to back to flint knives and bonfires....

Deacon Nicholas said...

There are so many problems with such a quotation. Priests were an innovation--bishops had to come up with authorized representatives. The communion spoon was an innovation. "Ritual is an instrument of the sacred"--of course, except for ritual Satanists.