Bad Liturgy, Parish Confusion

It's no secret that my parish has a reputation for catering to horizontalism, from name-tag Sunday to homilies telling us to "point to the Christ that we will become, and point to the Christ we already are."

I read this little gem from Cardinal Arinze today, and it soothed my soul. Here it is, for any of you in a similarly confused parish:

Many abuses in matters liturgical are based, not on bad will but on ignorance, because they "involve a rejection of those elements whose deeper meaning is not understood and whose antiquity is not recognized" ("Redemptionis Sacramentum," No. 9). Thus some abuses are due to an undue place given to spontaneity, or creativity, or to a wrong idea of freedom, or to the error of horizontalism which places man at the center of a liturgical celebration instead of vertically focusing on Christ and his mysteries.