Liturgy in the “liquid time”

Abstract

This article focuses on the hermeneutical question of the sacramental signs with which liturgy signifies and operates salvation. However, it takes into consideration the context of the “liquid modernity”, in which “none of the consecutive forms of social life is capable of maintain its aspects for very long”. (Bauman) In this situation the following is raised: in this context how the symbols manage to maintain themselves? As the liturgical communication is essentially symbolic, a question is raised, which the John Paul II Chair, of PUC-SP, intends to discuss: How to celebrate per ritus et preces if the symbolic basis is ruined? To what extent has the liquid context affected the celebration of faith? The article does not answer all the questions, but it senses that a liturgy in liquid times should be teofora, playful-artistic-filial and to follow a humanistic sacramentality, which has the human being as the primal sacramental sign of Christ.