Regarding: "Back 50 years ago, Fr. Frank Murphy taught us North American College students that our main task in presiding at the Eucharist wasn't to say the right words or employ the proper ritualistic gestures, but to help form the participants into the body of Christ. "
- Yup! This is totally not being taught. Seems that the more 'smells and bells'  a seminarian or priest is the less concerned about the body of christ assembled together in worship is he.
- Happily, the current english translation of the 3rd typical edition of the missal from rome (the JPII missal) which memorializes by faulty translation and incipiently questionable theology the roles of the cleric over and above that of the body of christ assembled together is steadily approaching suppression. 
- BTW, the bishops of the US need to educate parish staff that the 'donation' for a mass request is just that, and that the donation is legitimate even if the 'donation' is zero.