A prayer taken from the Eastern Church, quoted in Moving in the Spirit, by Richard J. Hauser, S. J., 1986, p 24.
Without the Holy Spirit, God is distant,
Christ remains in the past,
The Gospel is a dead letter,
The Church is just an organization,
Authority a domination,
Mission is propaganda,
Worship a ceremonial,
And Christian way of life a servitude.
But in him: the cosmos is uplifted and groans
In giving birth to the kingdom,
The risen Christ is here,
The gospel throbs with life,
The Church is communion in the Trinity,
Authority is a liberating service,
Mission a Pentecost,
The liturgy both memorial and anticipation,
And human life is deified.
Ignatius di Latakia. Discourse given at the Third World Assembly of Churches, 1968.
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