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Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Our bodies are instruments of worship.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
what we need is to learn a way of being-in-the-world that transforms us, day by day, by the rhythms of repentance and faith. We need to learn the slow habits of loving God and those around us.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
The body of Christ is made of all kinds of people, some of whom I find obnoxious, arrogant, self-righteous, or misguided (charges, I’m sure, others have rightly applied to me).
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
The words of the liturgy felt like a mother rocking me, singing over me, speaking words of blessing again and again. I was relaxing into the church like an overtired child collapsing on her mom.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
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Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
The practice of confession and absolution must find its way into the small moments of sinfulness in my day.
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
he says that this heavenly bread is his very flesh and calls them to feed on it as their “true food”
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
Religion in our time has been captured by a tourist mindset. . . . We go to see a new personality, to hear a new truth, to get a new experience and so somehow to expand our otherwise humdrum life.”
from Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life by Tish Harrison Warren
Justin Reidy added 4mo ago
Habits shape our desires. I desired ramen noodles more than good, nourishing food because, over time, I had taught myself to crave certain things and not others. In the same way I am either formed by the practices of the church into a worshiper who can receive all of life as a gift, or I am formed, inevitably, as a mere consumer, even a consumer of
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