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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Encounters with the sacred that radiate from the core of the ordinary embolden you to cultivate stillness and simple awareness. In the midst of a world that is begging you to distract yourself, this is no easy practice. Yet you keep showing up. You are indomitable. You are thirsty for wonder.
Mirabai Starr • Wild Mercy: Living the Fierce and Tender Wisdom of the Women Mystics
What I found was that it was the prayers and practices of the church that allowed me to hold to—or rather to be held by—God when little else seemed sturdy, to hold to the Christian story even when I found no satisfying answers.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
Liturgy is the way we learn to “put on” Christ (Col. 3:12–16).
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Inherited ways of prayer and worship—liturgical practices—are a way that the ancient church built cairns for us, to help us endure this mystery, to keep us on this path of faith, to guide us home.