LITURGY is a word that comes from the Greek meaning “the work of the people.” What makes our liturgy a “shared” work? We sing; we sit in silence; we listen and speak; we stand, embrace, eat, and drink. In all these actions (including formalized or ritualized communication) we speak to one another and to God with our bodies and our voices, and we “listen” not just with our hearing but with all our senses. The real communication of the liturgy is the moments that it offers us for being still in open and loving relationship with God and one another. Liturgy is not something we do for God. It is our opportunity to touch and enlarge our experience of God, to be with God, to hear God, to know God. When it works, it changes who we are and how we live.