Liturgy – Locus Communis

The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all good to enter and abide with us. George Eliot

Lowliest Prostration of the Soul

Worship is the highest elevation of the spirit, and yet the lowliest prostration of the soul. – Charles H. Spurgeon

Everybody Worships

Here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of god or spiritual-type thingContinue reading “Everybody Worships”

To worship is to quicken the conscience by the holiness of God, to feed the mind with the truth of God, to purge the imagination by the beauty of God, to open the heart to the love of God, to devote the will to the purpose of God. – William Temple

Dom Gregory Dix on the Eucharist through the Ages

He had told His friends to do this henceforward with the new meaning ‘for the anamnesis‘ of Him, and they have done it always since. Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivableContinue reading “Dom Gregory Dix on the Eucharist through the Ages”