Liturgy after the Liturgy’.A code phrase exhorting to missionary outreach introduced by Archbishop Anastasios of Albania
‘Liturgy after the Liturgy’. A code phrase exhorting to missionary outreach Introduced by Archbishop Anastasios of Albania * Nikolaos Tsirevelos, Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Thessaly, Adjunct Lecturer at Logos University, Tirana Abstract ‘Liturgy after the Liturgy’ refers to the Eucharistic experience that moves Christians, when they leave the church at the conclusion of the Divine Liturgy, to share the gift they received so that this world may be transformed into the Kingdom of God. First used by Anastasios Yannoulatos, then Bishop of Androussa and now Archbishop of Tirana, Durres and All Albania, at Etchmiadzin (Armenia) in 1975. The expression ‘liturgy after the Liturgy’ has since been adopted by many theologians to signify the Church’s multifaceted mission and witness of service in the world. With this succinct and felicitous phrase, its originator called the faithful to a perpetually Eucharistic attitude in their daily life ...