Round table: Bearing witness to Christ through the liturgy
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This article presents the exchanges from a round table devoted to the missionary dimension of Orthodox liturgy. It takes the form of two complementary contributions from parish priests. Father Stephen Maxfield argues that liturgical beauty, in all its expressions, constitutes an essential vehicle for Christian witness, in that it reflects the splendor of the heavenly liturgy, as tradition has transmitted it since the founding accounts of Slavic Christianization. Father Jean Gueit, for his part, emphasizes the responsibility of all the baptized in the celebration, stressing that the liturgy cannot be reduced to the sole action of the presiding priest. The theological contribution of these two interventions lies in their articulation between baptismal ecclesiology and liturgical aesthetics in the service of evangelization.
This article has not been translated yet — it is available in its French version here.
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