Him.”

     A Catholic liturgist like Bouyer, quite unconcerned with 
segmental practices such as private interpretation of the Bible, 
sees, however, the same fragmenting tendency in “the 
insistence of priests on having each a separate celebration of 
his own, when it is not needed for the people,” for this “tends 
only to obscure and break that unity of the Church which is not 
a detail of secondary importance in the Eucharist, but its own 
proper end.” Once Catholic scholarship had transcended the 
idea of the Middle Ages as “the Christian era par excellence , and 
[the idea] that their civilization and culture provided the 
outstanding example of a Catholic ideal incarnated in earthly 
realities, it became easy to see that the medieval period in fact 
paved the way for the abandonment of the liturgy by 
Protestantism and its final disgrace and neglect in so much of