People are hoping that various synods would take some leadership and suggest the catechumenal model as the primary way in which we go about seeking to catechize and form especially unbaptized adult Christians in the United States. But one of the big distinctions between Roman Catholic approaches and others is that even the Lutheran Book of Worship is not a required resource. There are positive things about congregational ownership, but that sometimes makes liturgical renewal difficult. However variable and culturally determined or adapted, we tend to want to go back and find the one true church and the one true Mass model. We have tended to assume that there is an original liturgical model somewhere, and so we ve gone on the assumption that there is such a thing as the sacred liturgy of the church.
History is much more messy.
We like to think that today we ve discovered or are discovering multiculturalism, but the church has always been multicultural. In Christ, There Is No East or West because I know there is. There is also a north and a south. Historically, Christian theology and liturgical practice were different in Syria than in Rome, North Africa, Egypt and so on. Today we start to realize that there is a great richness to the early Christian tradition.