Every Moment Holy

By Anthony Diehl

November 30, 2017

Do you have liturgy at the ready for ordinary life? Today, Convivium contributor Anthony Diehl reviews Doug Mckelvey's Every Moment Holy, a liturgical companion that baptizes the everyday in prayer. 

But what about all the other “ordinary” moments of life? Isn’t the Spirit also at work in and through the everyday stuff? In families and marriages, in work and play, in aging bodies and childlike wonder? I may recognize the sanctifying effect these daily moments have had on me over time, but it’s rare that I view these moments this way while I’m in the fray A good liturgy gives us words to pray together in key formative moments of our discipleship: gathering to worship, confessing our sin, lamenting our suffering, confessing our faith, celebrating the Eucharist, baptism, marriage, and burying the dead It is here that Every Moment Holy provides a practical toolset for “speaking the truth in love” in the normal everyday context that we all inhabit

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