The Disneyfication of the Liturgy

Jerry Galipeau at Gotta Sing, Gotta Pray nails a description of the too widespread approach to liturgy the Catholic Church has suffered from for most of my lifetime.

This brings me to a principle about the Triduum that I have always espoused. When I was in Orlando, the liturgy commissions I worked with had developed what I used to call a "Disney approach to liturgy preparation."... Disneyworld needs to change their big events (light shows, parades, etc.) on a regular basis so that they can attract people who don't want to see the same thing year after year. Many people wanted to approach the Triduum in the same way, i.e. "What can we do bigger and better this year?" It took some time, but we finally came to the conclusion that preparing the Triduum meant relying on time-tested ways of planning the music and ritual movements so that the Triduum changed very little from year to year. This is a thoroughly Catholic approach

Amen, amen and amen.
I do wish he had acknowledged that at least some fault for that might lie with the approach of those who publish, promote and sell, the newest/latest/hottest liturgical whatevers.
This approach has not just been brought to bear on the Triduum, but on liturgies the year, (or the three year?) 'round.

And it is still the prime directive for too many people in positions of some liturgical authority at too many parishes.

Let's do something new!

Does anyone ever say, "Gee, the pledge of allegience is gettin' tired, let's spice it up! and those words are too hard for little kids, that's not the way we talk anyway"?