Where and how to Learn to Offer all our Lives as a Spiritual Cult?

Abstract

Relationships between morality and liturgy have had a turbulent history: morality used to reduce liturgy to the observance of precepts which express the  correct accomplishment of the virtue of religion, as if we were unaware that God’s actions precede any human action when it comes to the cult. On the other hand, the reflection on liturgy has underestimated the fact that the moral experience contributes to a just understanding of Christian celebrations
when it admits, inspired by faith, that actions are always mixed with suffering. Today, the renewal of the ethics of virtues, sheds a light on the interaction between the training to do good and the good itself. From that point, appears a new nearness to liturgical practices which share fully the appropriation of spiritual goods that meet the needs of the Church. The result is that moral life and liturgical life contribute together to help us discover that the human being is called, by grace, to make of all his life a spiritual cult and, subsequently, to conform himself joyfully to this mystery.