Helen Gardner (via Rowan Williams) on Liturgy


‘Liturgy is not a matter of writing in straight lines. As the late Helen Gardner … remarked, liturgy is epic as well as drama; its movement is not inexorably towards a single, all-determining climax, but also – precisely – a circling back, a recognition of things not yet said or finished with, a story with all kinds of hidden rhythms pulling in diverse directions’. – Rowan Williams, ‘Service to commemorate the 450th anniversary of the Martyrdom of Thomas Cranmer, 21st March 2006’. Full sermon here.

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