Liturgy as Communion in theory and practice
This paper has been presented on the conference "Theology of Communion" in the monastery of Bose, Italy, October 20-23, 2014. I am a parish priest in Ukrainian Orthodox Church, and in this paper I'd like to highlight some questions about Orthodox liturgy and the dissonance between liturgy as it is fixed in its prayers and rubrics and its practical celebration. Let us look how liturgy is perceived by parishioners – people who attend it with varying degrees of frequency. It's no secret that…