På s 48 i boka «Benedict XVI and the Sacred Liturgy» beskrives msgr. Gambers syn på messens fokus på denne måten:
… The description of liturgy as worship corresponds to its traditional treatment in the documents of the Magisterium, as for instance in the encyclical Mediator Dei of Pope Pius XII. ‘The sacred liturgy … is the public worship which our redeemer, the head of the Church, offers to the heavenly Father, and which the community of Christ’s faithful pays to its founder, and through him to the eternal Father Pius XII accentuates the role of ordained priests to represent Christ as head of the Church before the heavenly Father and before the other faithful. The Second Vatican Council, when it describes the significance of ‘liturgy,’ bears witness to the priesthood of Christ: the priestly ministry embraces both public worship and sanctification; that is, it possesses equally the ‘katabatic’ dimension, by which God ‘sets out’ or descends to man, and the ‘anabatic’ element by which man ‘returns’ or ascends to God.
In the years after Vatican II, however, many liturgists preferred a more sociological description which characterizes the liturgy as the ‘worshipping assembly of God’s people’. This definition fails to distinguish between the ministry of ordained priests and that of the lay faithful; here the element of worship is relegated to the background. Gamber, on the contrary, affirms that the ‘primary’ or chief sense of divine worship’ is to ‘offer to God due adoration and thanksgiving’. The earthly worship of God is an image of the heavenly liturgy. ….