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Living Ecclesial Liturgy Really Trinitarian Living Ecclesial liturgy is not just a celebration, but it embraces the call of sharing with trinitarian life and mission in the real world. Living Christian faith is the matter of faith-in-action: “Faith of itself, if it does not have works, is dead” (James 2:17, NAB). Joyce Ann Zimmerman simply indicates, “living liturgy really has two meanings; one, a spirituality that prepares us for a fruitful celebration of liturgy and, second, living in a specifically Christian way (as disciples of Jesus concerned with forgiveness, reconciliation, justice, etc.) that witnesses to liturgy’s hold on us.” Too often in this busy world, we find no connection between our profession of faith and the witness of faith. Living as a Christian does not mean to live in two different worlds: the world inside the liturgy (in the church building) and the world outside the liturgy (daily life). Nevertheless, there is only one world in divine providence and that is our lives in communion with God and with one another. Living Christian life is the balance of liturgical celebration, contemplative experience, and “missional” testimony by our liturgical prolongation within the Trinitarian life. Being with God in all is the goal of Christian living and all creatures: …show more content…

Christians are called to become disciples of God in “the school of discipleship,” the Church. Thus, during the liturgy, we experience the divine love and learn about what we are supposed to do during the celebration and beyond. Worship and mission have a dynamic relationship: worship forms mission, and mission livens worship. This relationship includes four key elements which are emphasized for all Christians: kerygma (preaching), leitourgia (liturgy), koinonia (community), and diakonia (service). We are in the communion with God and with one another in love and unity (1 John 4:16,

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