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Sermon: Living the Liturgical Year
Scripture Text: Deuteronomy 16:1-17 and Ecclesiastes 3:1-11
Quotes for Reflection
Wendell Berry, “Damage”
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year
Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical year through all the days of our lives.
The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the liturgical year, whatever the weight of our own pressures, we maintain the course. We trust in the future we cannot see and do only know because we have celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus year after year. In His life we rest our own.
James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time
Time’s relativity and the now’s porosity is lived out liturgically in the church’s worship. To be constituted as such a peculiar people requires a strange sort of synchronization of time. Like operatives launching a mission in a spy thriller, coordinating their watches so they’re all on the same time, the people of God synchronize their soul clocks in relation to the story that cycles and repeats in the liturgical calendar. In the liturgical calendar, we are indexed to the solar time of the Son who is the light of the city of God (Rev 21:23)
Application Questions
1. What is your favorite time of the year? Is there a core memory that marked this time in an embodied way? What does this say about the connection between practice and time?
2. Why is kairos-time so important for chronos-time? Think of an example of how this would play out in your life this week.
3. The season of Lent is marked by prayer, fasting, confession, reconciliation, and generosity. How can this mindset change your outlook on daily life over the next 40 days? How can God’s time cause you to flourish in a particular way in this season?
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Quotes for Reflection
Wendell Berry, “Damage”
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
Joan D. Chittister, The Liturgical Year
Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil of our lives until the seed of the Word of God itself begins to grow in us, comes to fruit in us, ripens in us the spiritual journey of a lifetime. So goes the liturgical year through all the days of our lives.
The meaning and message of the liturgical year is the bedrock on which we strike our own life's direction. Rooted in the Resurrection promise of the liturgical year, whatever the weight of our own pressures, we maintain the course. We trust in the future we cannot see and do only know because we have celebrated the death and resurrection of Jesus year after year. In His life we rest our own.
James K.A. Smith, How to Inhabit Time
Time’s relativity and the now’s porosity is lived out liturgically in the church’s worship. To be constituted as such a peculiar people requires a strange sort of synchronization of time. Like operatives launching a mission in a spy thriller, coordinating their watches so they’re all on the same time, the people of God synchronize their soul clocks in relation to the story that cycles and repeats in the liturgical calendar. In the liturgical calendar, we are indexed to the solar time of the Son who is the light of the city of God (Rev 21:23)
Application Questions
1. What is your favorite time of the year? Is there a core memory that marked this time in an embodied way? What does this say about the connection between practice and time?
2. Why is kairos-time so important for chronos-time? Think of an example of how this would play out in your life this week.
3. The season of Lent is marked by prayer, fasting, confession, reconciliation, and generosity. How can this mindset change your outlook on daily life over the next 40 days? How can God’s time cause you to flourish in a particular way in this season?