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      "body": "The Eucharist is a liturgy. And he who says liturgy today is likely to get involved in a controversy. For to some--the 'liturgically minded'--of all the activities of the Church, liturgy is the most important, if not the only one. To others, liturgy is aesthetic, and a spiritual deviation from the real task of the Church. There exists today 'liturgical' and 'non-liturgical' churches and Christians. But this controversy is unnecessary, for it has its roots in one basic misunderstanding--the 'liturgical' understanding of liturgy. This is the reduction of the liturgy to 'cultic' categories, its definition as a sacred act of worship, different as such not only from the 'profane' area of life, but even from all other activies of the Church itself. But this is not the original meaning of the Greek word leitourgia. It meant an action by which a group of people become something corporately which they had not been as a mere collection of individuals--a whole greater than the sum of its parts...The Eucharist is the enterance of the Church into the joy of its Lord. And to enter into that joy, so as to be a witness to it in the world, is indeed the very calling of the Church, its essential leitourgia, the sacrament by which it 'becomes what it is.'",
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