Liturgy is a microcosm of the work which God is doing in the world, and it is there that salvation is being worked out. Liturgy must never become an alternative world to that of social reality.
In 1982 I came across a quote from the humorist Will Rogers, who once asked: “Where the hell is Nicaragua, and what the hell are we doing there?” And that was in 1933. At that point the US had alr… — anonymous
Liturgy is a microcosm of the work which God is doing in the world, and it is there that salvation is being worked out. Liturgy must never become an alternative world to that of social reality.
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