Liturgia w relacji do duchowości i mistyki chrześcijańskiej

Abstract

The aim of this article is to present the mutual relationships between the liturgy and Christian spirituality and mysticism based on the paradigm that the liturgy is the source and summit of the Christian spiritual life. Starting from the Council’s and Catechism’s definition of liturgy and showing against this background its close relationship with Christian spirituality and mysticism, the author concludes that it is in liturgical spirituality that the organic synthesis of the triad liturgy-spirituality-mysticism is most intensely visible. Liturgy is the source of faith, and it is an event in which God comes, speaks and acts. Christian spirituality and mysticism becomes the fruit of faith rooted in the soil of grace given in the liturgy. The development of the spiritual life is implanted in Christ in the liturgy, implanted in the Eucharist, which is the greatest gift and special good of the whole Church. After spirituality, mysticism appears as its consequence, which by its very nature demands liturgy, since it is nourished by the experienced and contemplated mystery. Liturgy, on the other hand, gains spiritual deepening through mysticism, because mysticism understood as the experience of the mystery proclaimed, celebrated, assimilated and lived leads to a gradual mystical union of the person of the faithful with the venerable person of Jesus Christ and makes it easier for the spirit of prayer rooted in the dynamic mystery of the Present Lord to be incarnated in daily life.