The Benefits of the liturgy

...Michel and his followers spoke of the liturgy as a school of social justice. This did not mean simply that preachers spoke on social problems. Here the liturgy is once again crucial. In the liturgy, properly celebrated, divisions along lines of sex, age, race or wealth are overcome. In the liturgy, properly celebrated, we discover the sacramentality of the material universe. In the liturgy, properly celebrated, we learn the ceremonies of respect both for one another, and for the creation, that allow us to see in people and in material goods, "fruit of theearth and work of human hands," sacraments of that new order which we call the justice of the Kingdom of God.
-stated by Monsignor John j. Egan.
-The Unread Vision, p. 136