This is going to stray into personal experience a ...

2008-09-07T14:20:00.000-07:00

This is going to stray into personal experience a bit, so forgive me in advance.

Pieper's idea about the experience of the world being one of taking the world in, in wonder, is one definition I would give to the sacramental life. (Anyone needing a good explanation of what is meant by the sacramental life should check out "For the Life of the World" by Alexander Schmemann).

My days (ideally, because I fail at this so much) revolve around set times of morning, mid-day, and evening prayer. My weeks revolve around the corporate worship (litorgeia) of the Church. And what I am just now learning, is that my years cycle through the Church's liturgical cycle, with all is prescribed Fasts and Feasts, with seasons of the Church year and the seasons of nature, all bound up together, are shaping in me a sacramental understanding even of the experience of time.

The constant experience of worshipful wonder are summed up best in the 103rd Psalm (which is chanted at evening Vepsers on Saturday nights) "O Lord, how magnified are Thy Works; in wisdom hast Thou made them all." And what ineffable, magnanimous Love must he Have, to let someone like me share in that, and in my unworthiness offer Him praise for His perfection?

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