Abstract

In most traditions, liturgical time does not tally with ordinary, everyday time. The latter is governed by the horizontal succession of daily occurrences. The former would like us to enter into contact with a privileged moment, which appears to be discontinuous when seen from the perspective of linear-chronological time. Liturgical time follows a vertical and/or a circular time-pattern; it is qualitative, ambivalent and polydirectional (e.g. it moves ‘backward’ as well as ‘forward’).

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