Liturgy is like a strong tree whose beauty is derived from the continuous renewal of its leaves, but whose strength comes from the old trunk, with solid roots in the ground.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Liturgy, in truth, is an event by means of which we let ourselves be introduced into the expansive faith and prayer of the Church. This is the reason why the early Christians prayed facing east, in the direction of the rising sun, the symbol of the returning Christ.
The Church is like a great tree whose roots must be energetically anchored in the earth while its leaves are serenely exposed to the bright sunlight. In this way, she sums up a whole gamut of beats in a single living and all-embracing act, each one of which corresponds to a particular degree or a possible form of spiritualisation.
Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people.
You have the women sitting on the left and the men sitting on the right. Everything is to keep your mind focused on God... To me the most beautiful thing anyone on earth can experience, other than maybe marriage and child-bearing, would be the Orthodox Liturgy.
Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.
Why does the Church grow and flourish? It does so because of divine direction to the leaders and members.
There is a comfort in rituals, and rituals provide a framework for stability when you are trying to find answers.
In our home there was always prayer - aloud, proud and unapologetic.
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy.
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