All worship can be understood as the action of Christ, the Host and the guest, who also accepts his people in these two roles. Thus, at Mass, the congregation in the role of the host »in rituals and payers« (B 48) prepares for the reception of the Guest in Holy Communion. However, since worship is an act of Christ and the Church, the first host is God, who through the Holy Spirit makes present God’s visit to humanity. This encounter with Him that brings salvation is an expression of God’s greatest hospitality. The Church, however, must recall this hospitality of God by becoming itself a host for the eternal Guest. This discussion brings a new perspective on liturgical and pastoral associates, namely how they, in the spatial hospitality of God’s love, must create hospitality in the liturgical communion and in the power of God’s hospitality strengthen the faith of the congregation. Since hospitality is the first message from the host to the guests that creates an atmosphere of acceptance and grandeur of the meeting, all factors of the congregation must concentrate on this God’s stance before worship, internalize it, and create a holy atmosphere of unity, holiness and joy in an common »praise, thanksgiving, propitiation, and satisfaction sacrifice« (B 2).
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