Sweet Mystery of the Divine

Wishing to become a mystagogue practising
Christian mystagogy, preferring experience
to intellectual knowing

Surpassing the traditional doctrinal proclaiming
a Tridentine godliness, decrying affective
experience as ephemeral

Christian mystagogy offers an experience of the
divine mystery, based on a small bibliography
proving it is more than

Mere homespun fantasy, Regan taught liturgy at
the seminary and theology faculty, and studied
missiology at the

Pontifical Universty School of Spirituality; ancient
practice was inculturated for Christian formation -
a holistic approach based on experience

For the initiation and transmission of Christian faith
religious education with a wider scope instead of
learning intellectual doctrine only

Providing the Christian Mystery with a psychic
substratum by which all of life acquires
new meaning

Ah, Sweet Mystery of the Divine, I always feel
your maddening joy when contemplating the
most enchanting aspects of

Intersubjective experience!


David Regan “Experience The Mystery” Pastoral
Possibilities for Christian Mystagogy - Geoffrey
Chapman, London, 1994 pp. 1-22