Liturgy takes on great importance in this regard as the focal point, the seed crystal, of the visible incarnation of invisible reality. Vatican II’s document on liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium, puts the broad principle this way: It is of the essence of the Church that she be both human and divine, visible and yet invisibly equipped, eager to act and yet intent on contemplation, present in this world and yet not at home in it; and she is all these things in such wise that in her the human is directed and subordinated to the divine, the visible likewise to the invisible, action to contemplation,
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