On an average Sunday eighty busloads of spiritual seekers visited Maria Laach, magnificent in both its physical setting and its worship. The liturgy was celebrated there more beautifully than one can imagine: faultless yet naturally reverent, amidst a dignified yet sincere brotherly love. “At this point, one might ask the obvious and serious question: from whence does one man, or group, get the right to impose his way of praying or celebrating upon the whole Western Church? (…)Strikingly, he identifies the Novus Ordo Missae as “certainly…a new liturgy” (which he thinks was never called for). Hence there is no provision for creating a new Mass, a new liturgical year, a new Divine Office, et cetera” (76).