Anthropocentrism is the explicit or implicit belief that humanity is the central important entity in creation. Just as heliocentrism and geocentrism argue that the sun or the earth are at the center of the universe respectively, anthropocentrism sees man at the center of all things. ...
In other words, sacrifices—other than that of Christ upon the altar—had to be made. Churches built with grandeur and majesty needed to be “wreckovated” in order to foster active participation in the liturgical ceremonies. The division between ordained and lay, religious and secular, had to be abolished. The ancient treasury of liturgical chants, blessings, sacramentals, vestments, and more were stumbling blocks to Modern Man’s ability to understand Catholic worship. Whether or not the Novus Ordo worships man or God (and I do believe it worships the latter), the fact remains that the primary concern leading to its genesis was how it will benefit man, not how it can offer greater worship to God.
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