This collection of essays in honor of liturgist, writer, editor, and publisher Gabe Huck celebrates key aspects of the vision of liturgy he fostered and explores ways that vision may be more fully manifest in Christian assemblies.

Fully Conscious, Fully Active presents an ecumenical group of liturgical scholars, practitioners, pastors, and musicians reflecting on the vision of renewed liturgical celebration, especially touching word and song, culture and language, and leadership and ministry. It imagines what contemporary, ­progressive, and responsive worship can be and how it can contribute to the Christian mission by lifting up the best of the North American liturgical reform and highlighting elements of that reform that lead to the “full, conscious, and active participation” of the faithful called for by the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy.

Gabe Huck was the director of LTP from 1977 to 2001. Under his leadership, it became an important source of liturgical education and formation. In his own writing, he linked the renewal of the liturgy with the work of justice, a link he continues to pursue in his life.