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Contents Acknowledgments Foreword Prologue: Before Mystery-An Evocation 1PART ONE Theological Bearings: The Life of God Moving within Us 9 1. Before the Mystery of Creation: Experiencing Our Createdness 11 Knowing in Our Bones A Paradoxical Knowledge: "You Are with Me Beyond My Understanding" Human Transcendence: A Reach Always Exceeding Its Grasp 2. About Resistances 26 Too High, Beyond Our Reach: Losing Sight of the Mystery Repressing Our Mortality and Creatureliness The Return of the Repressed: Putting God in All the Wrong Places Two Waves 3. Behind and Before, You Besiege Me: The Mystery Comes Near 36 Moving Within the Climate of Love Mediated Immediacy Shaped by Love for Love 4. Before the Mystery of the Incarnation 49 In Him the Fullness of God Was Pleased to Dwell First Imagining: How Jesus Is Like Us Second Imagining: How Jesus is Unlike Us Third Imagining: A Truly Human Self-Consciousness Jesus: God's Homily to Humanity Transition to Part Two PART TWO Exploring the Liturgical Script: The Letter and the Spirit 67 5. Learning the Script: Ritual Structures and Texts 69 Our Memory Alphabet Entering a Symbolic World The Word in the Readings and the Word in the Rites Objectivity and Subjectivity 6. The Spirituality of Gathering 80 Gathering as a Spiritual Task and Journey An Ecclesiology of Gathering Informal Gathering: Going to Church The Formal Gathering Rite and Its Spirituality Resumé of Gathering Spirituality 7. Finding Ourselves in the Word 113 The Ecclesial Context of the Word Becoming Text-People Assembly Meditation: A Staged Process Lectio Divina The Eucharistic Liturgy as Communal Lectio Divina A Case in Point: The Third Sunday of Lent, Year A- Jesus and the Samaritan Woman Enactment of Communal Lectio Divina The Gospel as a Script for Reenactment 8. Approaching the Eucharistic Prayer 146 The Presentation of the Gifts A First Look: The Spirituality of the Eucharistic Prayer Two Questions: What Kind of Script Is It? Who Prays It? The Beginning: "Let us give thanks" The Ending: "Through Him, with Him, and in Him" 9. The Eucharistic Prayer 163 A Structure Expressing a Spirituality Ecumenical Convergence The Structure of the Eucharistic Prayer The Eucharistic Prayer and Christian Identity An Emerging, Common Spirituality? 10. Communion/Sending: Receiving and Living the Self-Emptying Christ 195 To Commune Is To Be Sent Philippians 2:5-11 The Communion Rite in Light of Christ's Kenosis Sending Conclusion Index of Persons Index of Subjects