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 within the secular politics of a specific time and place. . . . Liturgy should be an act of festivity, of joy, of liberation, an act in which the powers of the age to come are celebrated in anticipation.
