Liturgy, in the everyday, broad sense, is the public work of the Christian and the Christian community.  It is the work we do inside the walls of our home or church, as well, and maybe even more importantly, the work we perform outside the walls of home and church.  Specifically, the sacramental attitude we have in corporate worship and in the home should be the same ethos we bring into public.

The Word, in becoming incarnate, became public in the rawest, most earthy sense.  Jesus became Man.  He was Creator now created in the womb (as David writes of God forming us in our mother's womb).  Like clay before the potter, God called to God, and the Christ-child became Word-in-flesh. Art, the product of our creative faculties, is at the center of the Christian liturgy, with its focus on incarnation at Christmas and resurrection at Easter (or Pascha).  

I am going to be taking some time to write shorter, more introspective posts on the subject of Art in the Liturgy, focusing on how aspects of the liturgy we keep inside the walls of the church can become our public work. In other words, how does our liturgy become incarnational or missional?
Your thoughts throughout this series would be appreciated.