By Joseph Pearce, Substack - A healthy liturgy, Ratzinger wrote, was necessary for a healthy society: “It is only … when man’s relationship with God is right that all of his other relationships – his relationships with his fellowmen, his dealings with the rest of creation – can be in good order.”10 We might also say that this is true of man’s relationship with himself, as well as his relationship with others. Without a life properly ordered and oriented towards God in worship, man becomes disordered and disoriented in himself, flailing and fumbling his way in the darkness and unfathomable depths of the unknowable ego. If man will not find himself in God, he will lose himself in his self. There is no third course. ...