Entering sacred time and space
Entering sacred time and space
In my 26 years of ordained ministry I have rarely had a conversation concerning how one might enrich one’s worship experience.
We do believe worship is essential to one’s relationship to God. Most of us can say that worship has and can be a meaningful and important aspect to living the Christian life. We believe that worship is not just something to consume or do, but something that can be entered into in significant and meaningful ways. I know that my worship does enrich my faith and my daily Christian walk.
I want to mention, in the next few months, ways one can find worship enriching. I want to explore a variety of approaches and traditions that make Sunday worship something that actually changes the way we understand God, the world, and our own place in God’s Kingdom.
I first want to be sure that we have a common understanding of “enrich”. There is a way to enter into our Sunday worship that improves, develops, and deepens our relationship with God. Our worship experience can change our everyday lives.
If my daily faith and practice is ever to mature, I have to believe that possibility. We must believe that there is a strong and direct connection between my worship in Church and my day-to-day life: that there is a strong correlation between how I worship and how I live.
To enrich means to move ever deeper into the presence of God, and that we desire God to move deeper into our souls. Worship means to encounter “the beauty of holiness” in the Sacraments and the symbols of Church, the sounds and practices of the Church.
So we begin with a simple question with complex answers: How has worship enriched your faith and life? Do you remember a time when a worship service truly touched and changed you? Do you want God to change you through your worship?
Do you want a richer and more significant worship experience?
Next topic? What if I do not get anything out of Church?
Peace,
Father Gerry+
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