Edited sentence: Matthew's community has embraced Vatican II's understanding of a parish eucharistic liturgy that encourages the "full active and conscious participation of the gathered assembly", so that they are beginning to rejoice in a community that does not merely sing at the mass, but sings the mass.Matthew's is a parish committed to serving the community, and which embraces a fully collaborative approach to ministry.The St.Their aim is for a liturgical excellence where the primary symbols of the liturgy can speak for themselves without layers of elaborate fussiness.There is a very Benedictine approach, which is both rooted in a traditional ceremonial where the baptised are encouraged to exercise their various ministries, in which the beauty of ordered liturgy points towards the holiness and love of God.This is not to create a bolt-hole for pietistic liturgical escapism, for St