Food For Thought: C. S. Lewis, Worship and Liturgy
August 16, 2013
As long as you notice and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becaomes possible when you need not consciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of...our attention would have been on God.
The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremonsiously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite and his readiness to spoil for everyone else the proper pleasure of ritual.
C. S. Lewis
A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C.S. Lewis
ed. Clyde S. Kilby; Harcourt, Brace and World, 1968