“Unspontaneity is of their essence. In these rites I discover that something is approaching me here that I did not produce myself, that I am entering into something greater than myself, which ultimately derives from divine revelation. This is why the Christian East calls the liturgy the "Divine Liturgy", expressing thereby the liturgy's independence from human control.”

— Pope Benedict XVI

2000, The Spirit of the Liturgy (2000)

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265th Pope of the Catholic Church 1927

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