Liturgy consists of the corporate and individual patterns of devotion, worship, fellowship and obedience that enable us increasingly to manifest in the world God’s kingdom of love, forgiveness, reconciliation, cleansing, healing and holiness. This is why Kenneth Leech affirms: The liturgy is thus a deeply subversive act, a spiritual force working within the fallen world to undermine it and renew it. . . . To take part in the Christian liturgy is to take on one’s role in a new kingdom: one that “shall have no end.” It is the political act of all time and is therefore potentially seditious
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