Sarah’s Reviews > The Spirit of the Liturgy > Status Update

Sorry sorry, more ad orientam:
"Just as God assumed a body and entered the time and space of this world, so it is appropriate to prayer...that our speaking to God should be...turned through the incarnate Word to the triune God. The cosmic symbol of the rising sun expresses the universality of God above all particular places and yet maintains the concreteness of divine revelation"

Christians look toward the east, to the rising sun. This is not a case of Christians worshipping the sun but of the cosmos speaking of Christ... "[The sun] comes forth like a bridegroom leaving his chamber...Its rising is from the end of the heavens..." Christians interpret [this psalm] in terms of Christ, who is the living word, the eternal Logos, and the true light of history...

"The torn curtain of the Temple is the curtain torn between the world and the countenance of God. In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up--here we see who God is and what he is like. heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness."

"[In the Fall] love is seen as dependence and is rejected. In its place come autonomy and autarchy: existing from oneself and in oneself, being a god of one's own making."

"Children's play seems in many ways a kind of anticipation of life, a rehearsal for later life, without its burdens and gravity. On this analogy, the liturgy would be a reminder that we are children, or should be children, in relation to that true life toward which we yearn to go."