Thinking about liturgy

If you’ve read this blog for any length of time it will be clear by now that I have a great love for the liturgies of Eastern Christianity. There is a reverence there and a beauty which I find extremely attractive. It feeds my soul.

A few days ago I came across this video of Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, speaking about the liturgies of the Church and about the need for liturgical renewal, particularly in the Western Church:

While watching this video I was reminded of an article I read on the blog “Neal Obstat” where the author recounted a conversation he had with a member of the Coptic Church. Rather surprisingly, this Coptic Christian argued that the chief obstacle to reunion with the Catholic Church was not a matter of dogma, but the “banalization” of the liturgy in the West.

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Fairy Tale Through And Through

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“We have grown dull toward this world in which we live; we have forgotten that it is not ‘normal’ or ‘scientific’ in any sense of the word. It is fantastic. It is a fairy tale through and through.

Really now. Elephants? Caterpillars? Snow? At what point did you lose your wonder at it all?” – John Eldridge, Epic, Page 45