The Christian Liturgy has never hesitated to speak, simultaneously, a language of sin and a language of healing... The simultaneous presence of both languages creates a tension that makes festivity possible. For unless festivity can deal with the unavoidable ambiguity of real life -- its scabs and its successes--it becomes escapist. By insisting that we acknowledge our pain---our failure and our finitude---the festivity of worship offers us the possibility of moving beyond it toward a vision of humanity healed and reconciled.
-NATHAN MITCHELL
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