![]() ![]() Thus, the whole of Scripture entails an unfolding witness to the full mystery of the Blessed Trinity indeed, almost as a kind of historical culmination of the revelation of the Blessed Trinity, there is an almost Trinitarian baptismal presence at the Conception of Jesus Christ in the womb of Mary. Then, there is the coming-to-be of the Church, the “life, birth, and growth” of the Church through the procession of the Holy Spirit “from” and “through” God the Father and God the Son 16. In the very structure of the Old Testament being retained and yet surpassed in the New there is a marvellous sense of the Father’s generation of the Son, and the Son’s veiled, then explicit, emergence from the Father. What about the theologians, priests, and bishops who cannot understand being open to life, who cannot see the unbelief behind their rejection of the inseparable connection between the unitive and procreative “significance which are both inherent to the marriage act” ( Humanae Vitae, 12)? 5 In other words, what obstructs the perception of “what is”? 6 Furthermore, how can preachers inspire in others what they do not possess themselves? Why does a government spend “more than £250 million on … your servant is listening (1 Sm 3: 10) Or what about the Catholic school which acts as if a Sunday liturgy over a children’s adventure weekend would spoil their fun? Not to mention a too tired husband and wife who, even when they have remembered that they need to pray together, forget to pray together and fall asleep. Tobit 8: 4) before making love that it would surely dampen their ardor indeed, what about the more general criticism that prayer is for religious and priests-it is not for laypeople. A priest responded to the possibility of a married couple praying (cf. This mentality is nearer to us than we realize. Given the title of this essay, not to mention the creeping association that any religious or holy action is somehow unhelpful, boring and life-threatening, perhaps it is necessary to begin by addressing the cultural presupposition that “love” and “liturgy” are as opposed to one another as “fire” and “water”. (Man, Male and Female, is a “ religious being” (CCC, 28 1) Love is a Liturgical Act 2 Liturgy is a “Participation” in the Work of God (CCC, 1069 3) and, therefore, the Family is Called to a Domestic Expression of the Liturgical Life of the Church 4) ![]() “Christian marriage … is in itself a liturgical action glorifying God in Jesus Christ and in the Church” ( Familiaris Consortio, 56) ![]()
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