This is the New Liturgy
This is the new liturgy
The one that greets the world with that
new hardcover urgency
next year’s model
fresh-baked-out-the-oven nooks and crannies
liturgy.
It speaks not of general woes – but of what is
broken at this hour
Not a list of historical injustices – but the
wrong being committed at this very moment.
It is What Hurts Now.
The early adapters, hipsters, the fashionable, the
urban set – they’re all lining up to hear the new liturgy.
And even though you’ve never heard it before it
does sound like something you once read.
Traces of ancient love songs,
Hints of a familiar cry,
Was that symbolism pillaged from a medieval
homily?
That silence lifted from the meditation of a lost
tribe?
Yes! This is the new liturgy!
Freshly scrambled,
Yesterday’s prayerbooks put through the shredder,
This morning’s headlines mixed in,
Strips recycled together and reglued to appear
before you as a
new creature,
new creation,
new revelation.
Please turn now to the handout and sing a new song
unto God.
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