La Liturgia come sistema di percezione del Tempo

Immersed, like any other historical reality, in the flow of Time, the Jewish Christian religious experience relates to it in the light of its own cultural practice. In the latter, the cyclical recurrence of annual celebrations in fact translates into a solemn proclamation of the absolutely linear character of Time itself, whose unidirectionality appears marked by the occurrence of unique and unrepeatable events, through which God is realizing the salvation of man. In this context, the Mystery Time assumes fundamental importance, proper to the cultural celebration: in it, past and future are concentrated, and all believers - in every place and in every time - are allowed to participate, in their present, in the salvific event that took place once and for all in the past, and to present already now - in mysterious signs - the future realities, which will find fulfillment in the eschaton