Missa Est!: A Missional Liturgical Ecclesiology

The twenty-first-century church cannot afford to neglect mission. When church and culture no longer share a common outlook, the only way forward is mission. Pope Francis recognizes this in his call for a missionary conversion of the church. Responding to this invitation, Missa Est! is a constructive work in ecclesiology addressing the relationship between liturgy and mission in the church’s life. It advances a notion of the church grounded in both liturgy and mission, where neither is subor...