We Orthodox live Christ within the
Divine Liturgy, or rather Christ lives within us during the Divine
Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy is a work of God. We say: “Time is a
creation of the Lord”. Among other things it means now is the time for
God to act. Christ liturgises, we live with Christ. The Divine Liturgy
is the way we know God and the way God becomes known to us. Christ
celebrated the Divine Liturgy once and this passed into eternity. His
divinised human nature came to the Divine Liturgy. We know Christ
specifically in the Divine Liturgy. The Divine Liturgy we celebrate is
the same Divine Liturgy which was done by Christ on Great Thursday in
the Mystical Supper. The 14th through the 16th
chapters of the Gospel according to John is one Divine Liturgy. So in
the Divine Liturgy we understand Holy Scripture. The early Church lived
without a New Testament, but not without the Divine Liturgy.
