Thinking Liturgy
Christopher over at Bending the Rule, has a marvelous post just up that begins:
Contrary to a popular and popularized notion that has taken a powerful hold on the Western Christian mind of late, and is influencing all manner of liturgical revisions and reforms at the parish, denomination, and tradition levels, liturgy is NOT, let me repeat, NOT the work of the people. Leitourgia, is rather God’s work for us, is God’s work for us in the open (public) for us, among us, in us, through us, and more, lest we get focused on ourselves AGAIN to the neglect of our animal kin and all of Creation. . .
So I know one thing I'm never saying again.
Caught by the light, I'd say.
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Contrary to a popular and popularized notion that has taken a powerful hold on the Western Christian mind of late, and is influencing all manner of liturgical revisions and reforms at the parish, denomination, and tradition levels, liturgy is NOT, let me repeat, NOT the work of the people. Leitourgia, is rather God’s work for us, is God’s work for us in the open (public) for us, among us, in us, through us, and more, lest we get focused on ourselves AGAIN to the neglect of our animal kin and all of Creation. . .
So I know one thing I'm never saying again.
Caught by the light, I'd say.
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