“It is not the individual - priest or layman -
or the group that celebrates the liturgy, but it is primarily God's action
through the Church, which has its own history, its rich tradition and
creativity. This universality and fundamental openness, which is characteristic
of the entire liturgy is one of the reasons why it cannot be created or amended
by the individual community or by experts, but must be faithful to the forms of
the universal Church.”
~ Pope Benedict XVI,
General Audience, 3 October AD 2012.