The liturgy lives out a story in a...

The liturgy lives out a story in a story-deprived world. Liturgy is not a once-upon-a-time story we merely watch others perform. We are the characters in this story, actors in the divine drama whose opening and closing has been written by Jesus Christ himself The story that modernity gave us has had its run. Its story arc was about progress, the notion that human life would get better and better because science and technology would solve the most nagging human problems. But events-two world wars, the Gulags, the holocaust, HIV/AIDS, and 9/11-and postmodern philosophy have revealed how weak this plot line was.