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When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit.
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― Nearly Orthodox: On being a modern woman in an ancient tradition
― Nearly Orthodox: On being a modern woman in an ancient tradition
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Christ is a persuasion, a form evoking desire, and the whole force of the gospel depends upon the assumption that this persuasion is also peace: that the desire awakened by the shape of Christ and his church is one truly reborn as agape, rather than merely the way in which a lesser force succumbs to a greater, as an episode in the endless epic of power. (3)
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― The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth
― The Beauty of the Infinite: The Aesthetics of Christian Truth


























