LITURGY IN THE DEEPEST SENSE 10-17-2015

The amazing thing about transformation is its ordinary quality. The human incarnation took place in an ordinary town on a speck of a planet in an insignificant galaxy. So too, the world is transformed while reading National Geographic, shopping at the local farmer’s market, or sipping a half-caff latte.

The world is thirsting for the sacrament of the present moment available in deep prayer forms and in awe-inspiring worship. Unfortunately, just when the thirst is most profound, many mainline churches can only offer a rallying cry to be good. People don’t need more sentimental moral scripting. They need liturgy in the deepest sense, drenched in the transcendent. Liturgy at its best becomes like water and we the fish, no longer going through the motions, but embodying the mystery, incarnating Christ’s mysterious body.

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Al Whitehead writes, “Christian theology begins in wonder and when theological thought has done its best, the wonder still remains.”[1] Like my Oriental Orthodox sisters and brothers, I believe the incarnation is the central mystery of the Christian faith. It’s the great mystery of the world with immeasurable depths. I scratch the surface with words, but in the end I return to silent wonderment.