'Your Life Will Be Hung Before Your Eyes': Meanings of Our Life in Orthodox Liturgy

by Silviu N. Bunta

In this collection of talks, Fr. Silviu Bunta invites the reader to consider the Church and its life—the liturgy—as essentially constituting the search of Christ for us, and His reception of us. In the liturgy, it is not that we find something or someone, but rather the reality that we are found by Him. Here, Fr. Silviu speaks to us as a “translator-practitioner” of the liturgy, as he puts it. Thus, the vision in each of these talks is precisely this: a look from within the liturgy out, from the perspective of the liturgizer who locates himself in the text—rather than in the other direction, which is the perspective of the researcher.

126 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2022

Reviews

[Tom · Rating 4 out of 5]

A lovely reflection on the liturgical life of the church. Most notable to me was his discussion of the Orthodox disposition of how we ought approach Scripture, Tradition, and the Liturgy itself as an experiential revelation of Christ, more than a scholastic search for dogmatic truth.

[Ted · Rating 3 out of 5]

I learned a great deal from Fr Silviu in the few years that I have known him, and appreciated his insights into so many aspects of Orthodoxy, the liturgy and the scriptures. This book looks at the Orthodox liturgy especially through the lens of Archimandrite Aimilianos of Mt Athos. The book is not looking at the Liturgy in terms of its historical development, but how we are to participate and experience the Liturgy in order to know God and be known by Him. Although in his book he notes that Christianity is not just for the learned (academics), one has to be a bit of an academic to appreciate some of what he says,

[Reese Swistek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautiful