Reflections on The Shallows – The formative power of habits

I enjoyed reading these thoughtful reflections from Tsholo.

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Life is liturgical. We normally think of liturgy as solely residing in the religious domain and that outside religious life there are no liturgies. But once we understand that a liturgy is a practice that we participate in that forms us, shapes and moulds our dispositions and inclinations it becomes clearer that we are constantly engaged in all sorts of liturgies. Our life, our character, the substance of who we are, is shaped by the practices and habits that we repeatedly do.

Liturgies from a Christian context are practices that embody in concrete terms beliefs about how life in the kingdom of God is – to put it differently liturgies embody beliefs and visions about what constitutes the good life. Their aim is to transform us to be a particular kind of people, people with certain virtues, patterns of thought and habits that allow us to co-operate with God and…

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