It is a constant temptation of human nature to want to get a grip on God so that He will have to do our will. We are tempted to seek rites, formulas, timetables and methods of controlling God, of bending Him to become our servant instead of Our Lord and Master. The prophets, the Lord Jesus and His Apostles condemned this tendency, but it is always among us. Even in these days of renewal and improved liturgy, we can be tempted to look for the solutions to our worship problems in the right manual, technique or method of prayer. We hear that participation in the liturgy is the primary and indispensable source of the true spirit of Christ. In the Constitution of the Liturgy #49 it says we must not think that this is an easy answer. Participation means sharing fully with Christ in His dying to sin and His living a new life with God. It means a constant struggle, accepting our daily cross, our efforts to pray, so that we might live and serve God and others. It means our openness to God’s grace, to His work in us, to His love. God has chosen us to save the world by the obedient death and rising of His Son and His mercy calls us to share in the work of His Son.