Book Description Shows that “meeting mystery” is what liturgy and worship are about, as “the Word of God puts Godself at the mercy of the body.”
Nathan Mitchell’s book is both an introduction to liturgy, worship, and sacraments for beginners and an adventure that guides the reader to the place where God’s surprising self is revealed and the human soul is moved to awe and love.
This book invites us to excavate depths concealed by ever-busier, ever-shallower, uni-dimensional lives. To recover those depths is to learn that worship can surprise and lead us to the divine depths of creation.
Meeting Mystery shows that ritual is integral to human identity in the light of ritual and religious pluralism, and the harmony of the “liturgy of the church” and the liturgy “of the world.”
Nathan D. Mitchell is professional specialist in the Department of Theology and associate director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. His recent books include Liturgy and the Social Sciences, and Real Presence: The Work of Eucharist.
