Description
This book is about active participation in Sunday Eucharist. It speaks to readers who want to deal creatively with the tension between interpreting the needs of the local community and the official liturgical books. Its focus is on attitudes and principles that make a difference to how we do our liturgies. It offers ways of dealing with the challenges that currently face us in seeking active participation. The book has grown out of the writers’ conviction that high active participation in Eucharist enriches the symbolism of Eucharist and enhances its impact on people’s lives. Such participation can be achieved by local communities, provided their liturgical planners and ministers see this as an important goal; provided too that they have some guiding principles to help them actually do it. Underlying this book is a culture that values participation in church and society; it believes in the added value that teamwork and inclusiveness bring to human relationships and common enterprises.