Da Liturgia à vida

• Autor(a) principal: Cordeiro, José Manuel
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: https://doi.org/10.34632/didaskalia.2014.2427

The Church lives from the Liturgy. This is its decisive, non-exclusive dimension, because the Liturgy is the first school of faith and of spiritual life. Liturgy is not only rite, nor mere execution of rubrics, but ethos and, fundamentally an art of action, where the Church seeks aid for its everyday life. Christian life is founded on the Liturgy, that is, on sacramental celebration, especially on the sacraments of Christian Initiation, in celebration of the Liturgy of the Hours and in the broad horizon of the Liturgical Year. Indeed, spiritual life, though founded on God’s Word and on the Liturgy, requires catechesis, meditation, personal prayer, charity and many other dimensions of life in Christ. Liturgy is the Bible made prayer. Faith, professed and transmitted by the Church, is celebrated in the Liturgy and radiates to life in charity. The presence of God in the sacramentality of the Liturgy transforms the Christian to the measure of Christ. Anyone who has truly found Christ and has been found with Him, must announce and witness it in the simplicity of everyday life. This is the simple and beautiful seriousness of the Liturgy.