Enacting Christian Identity through Liturgy: The Example of New Skete Monastery
by Teva Regule
How do we understand ourselves as Christians, especially when we gather as a community in liturgy? This essay will briefly explore how the Monks and Nuns of New Skete Monastery have understood and enacted their ecclesial identity through their liturgical expression over the course of their over fifty year history. I will begin by highlighting the aspects of worship that have spoken and still speak to their multifaceted identities (e.g. baptismal, ethnic, cultural, ecclesial, and monastic) and show how this expression has changed as they moved from Eastern Rite monastics in the Roman Catholic Church to their entry into the Orthodox Church and through to the present…
