{"id":232,"date":"2024-03-19T15:20:53","date_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:20:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pilgrimsprogress.ca\/?p=232"},"modified":"2024-03-19T15:20:54","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T22:20:54","slug":"reflection-1-the-life-of-christ-expressed-in-liturgy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pilgrimsprogress.ca\/?p=232","title":{"rendered":"Reflection 1 &#8212; The Life of Christ Expressed in Liturgy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>The Liturgical Year<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0calls us to an ancient practice of faith. We learn that following the events of Christ\u2019s life through the liturgy can be a path to becoming a Christ follower, one who thinks as God thinks.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Participating in the liturgical year, with its major feasts and seasons, can bring about the radical change of losing ourselves more completely to Christ. Through the liturgy we share Jesus\u2019 walk with his disciples, revealing both His and their paths to the cross. Simon is the first disciple to recognize Jesus as the Messiah, \u201cthe Christ, the Son of God\u201d (Matthew 16:16). Jesus then names him Peter, the rock on whom He will build His church. However, almost immediately Jesus chastises Simon Peter for urging the Christ to turn away from His path to death and resurrection. He says to Peter, \u201dYou are an obstacle in my path, because you are thinking not as God thinks but as humans do.\u201c Jesus then turns to his disciples and says, \u2018If anyone wants to be a follower of mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. (Matthew 16:23-24) This journey through the church year shows us how to \u201cnot only follow Jesus but to live as Jesus lived, to think as Jesus thought, to become what Jesus had become by the end of His life.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0(Chittister, 2009, p. 7).\u00a0Through the liturgy we come to better understand what it means to live a Christian life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The liturgy takes us through Scripture and the faith journey of the people of God from the beginning of time, through the current age and beyond to the end of time. Here \u201cwe meet the Jesus of history and come to understand the Christ of faith who is with us still.\u201d (p.10) An individual, through this dissolve of self into Christ, can come to see oneself as a key part of \u2018one people\u2019 coming together to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to fruition. This is not just \u2018by and by\u2019, but also \u2018here and now\u2019. The liturgical year directs the church to be the kind of community God meant us to be, moving us beyond the pale imitations of Christ we currently are, towards the ideals we see in the life of Christ (p. 13), and come to know what it is to truly become Christian (p. 14). \u201cThe liturgical year . . . is Jesus with us, for us, and in us as we strive to make His life our own (p. 16). The liturgical year is not about just practicing, but more importantly\u00a0<strong><em>living<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0the presence of Christ and thereby escaping the existential angst that is so prevalent in this age. In Christ\u2019s liturgy we see that God so loved the world that He gave His only Son so that the Kingdom of Heaven can now at hand. Through the liturgy we come to know the grave is not the end, God is not remote, life is not purposeless, and the individual is not nothing. (p. 18).<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While the liturgy takes us through Jesus\u2019 path to the cross from conception to death, more importantly it points to his resurrection AND beyond. With that resurrection comes the release of the Holy Spirit and the actualizing of God\u2019s plan for His church towards a new way of being, thinking and seeing which is both corporate, in the body of the church, but also individual. The liturgy is key to becoming active participants in the body of Christ here on earth.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Liturgical Year\u00a0calls us to an ancient practice of faith. 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