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Christopher Hall invites us to accompany the fathers as they enter the sanctuary for worship and the chapel for prayer. He also takes us to the wilderness, where we learn from the early monastics as they draw close to God in their solitary discipline. The focus of this book is not liturgy but more broadly worship in its corporate and individual dimensions. We enter into the patristic...

cluster of mysteries surrounding the incarnation of the Son. Think of Jesus’ birth from the Virgin Mary. Here, surely, was a generation “outside the normal course of nature.” On the basis of the incarnation, we should expect other surprises from God, other end runs around nature’s normal course. And we find them in the Eucharist: “this body that we bring into being [at the Eucharist] is from the Virgin. Why do you look for the normal course of nature in the case of Christ’s body when the Lord Jesus
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