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What is the Grass

by Mark Doty

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Nov 09, 2020 12:39AM

“I worry that when our gathered worship looks like a rock show or an entertainment special, we are being formed as consumers - people after a thrill and a rush - when what we need is to learn a way of being-in-the-world that transforms us, day by day, by the rhythms of repentance and faith.”
― Tish Harrison Warren, Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life

tags: consumerism, faith, liturgy, repentance

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“But if roteness is a danger, it is also the way liturgy works. When you don't have to think all the time about what words you are going to say next, you are free to fully enter into the act of praying; you are free to participate in the life of God.”
― Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath

tags: jewish-tradition, liturgy, prayer, spiritual-disciplines

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“What happened after the Council was totally different: in the place of liturgy as the fruit of development came fabricated liturgy. We left the living process of growth and development to enter the realm of fabrication. There was no longer a desire to continue developing and maturing, as the centuries passed and so this was replaced—as if it were a technical production—with a construction, a banal on-the-spot product.”
― Joseph Ratzinger

tags: bugnini, catholic, catholicism, liturgy, mass, rite

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“Sure, sometimes it is great when, in prayer, we can express to God just what we feel; but better still when, in the act of praying, our feelings change. Liturgy is not, in the end, open to our emotional whims. it re-points the person praying, taking him somewhere else.”
― Lauren F. Winner, Mudhouse Sabbath

tags: jewish-tradition, liturgy, prayer, spiritual-disciplines

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“It is not a gathering of 'escapees' from the world, bitterly enjoying their escape, feeding their hate for the world. Listen to their psalms and hymns; contemplate the transparent beauty of their icons, their movements, of the entire *celebration. It is truly cosmical joy that permeates all this; it is the entire creation - its matter and its time, its sounds and colors, its words and silence - that praises and worships God and in this praise becomes again itself: the Eucharist, the sacrament of unity, the sacrament of the new creation.”
― Alexander Schmemann, Of Water and the Spirit: A Liturgical Study of Baptism

tags: baptism, christian, eucharist, joy, liturgy, orthodox

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