The Good Wine Kept Until Now

Cana speaks to the postconciliar famine, and Our Lady gives the only instruction that still works
“Let all on earth worship You, O God, and sing praise to You.”
The Church opens this Mass with a shout. Psalm 65 does not ask permission, negotiate with the mood of the age or adjust its volume to accommodate the bored, the cynical, the bureaucrat, the parish committee, the liturgical planner, or the modern man who thinks worship is “community-building.”
It begins where everything begins: God is God, and the earth exists to worship Him.
That one line lands like a hammer in 2026, because so much of what calls itself “Catholic” after the Council has trained souls to treat worship as a means to some other end. Evangelization, inclusivity, belonging, social cohesion, emotional uplift, human flourishing, dialogue, a “journey.” You hear the substitutions every week. The center gets moved. The altar becomes a stage. The sanctuary becomes a living room. The priest becomes a facilitator. The …