Sentences with phrase «if liturgy»

If liturgy is not to be sickly pretense, if it is to be real presence of reality's God, everything must enact the specific story Scripture actually tells about that particular God.

If the liturgy has been hurled at us like a stone — an obligatory stone — for too many years, the solution is not to transform it into an action dependent upon our participation as a prerequisite for its meaning, rather than a response to God's meaning already present.

If the liturgy is the principal manifestation of God's worldly presence, then it is, by that fact, the primordial place of God's glory, the ongoing event of transfiguration, the sacrament of beauty.

We can be sure, however, that if the liturgy is not a public affair, is not a liturgy of the city, then its interests will not be in social transformation.

They care little if the Liturgy is in Latin or English or Sanskrit, as long as they are told how to do it, for they were not told.

Not exact matches

In fact, if you listen carefully, you'll discover that congregational responses drop off when you invite a response in your terms, not the liturgy's.

It might help if one distanced oneself from the liturgy.

If this book is not the original work that Romano Guardini's Spirit of the Liturgy was, it is nevertheless a timely and illuminating series of reflections that breathe the spirit of the Liturgy.

If there is any significant evangelical turn toward liturgy, it will take the form of experiments in worship among non-liturgical evangelicals.

The Church relishes in the liturgy as the «high point» of Christian worship, but does not the Christ remind us, «if our brother has something against us, we are to leave our gift at the altar and go be reconciled first and then return?»

It is not as if those who specialize in Scripture are more guilty than those of us who work in theology, ethics or liturgy.

And if the liturgical movements of the Christian community at some time and place seem not to move or stir, bending no knee, bowing no head, drawing no tear, lifting no heart, the intent of the liturgy is not served by abandoning it.

So often, it seems that such is the presentation of the Good News — if you will conform outwardly to this shape, this liturgy, this behavior... then... you will have eternal life.

That may already give us pause: how can something become the foundation for the liturgy if it wasn't before?

Or if we're meant to understand, not «has become in reality» but rather «always was in reality, but now has become so also in our understanding», that raises the obvious question, did the Church then previously have a deficient understanding of the liturgy and of the Mass?

We can see only hints of divine beauty, and if some poets or artists seem to have a talent for seeing a particular kind of natural beauty it does not follow that they will also see or appreciate supernatural beauty (for example, in people, liturgy, or scripture).

All this must not be forgotten if the longe antecellere of the Constitution on the Liturgy is to be rightly understood.

Moreover, if the Constitution on the Liturgy emphasizes that we ought to «pray without ceasing», this can hardly apply only to liturgical prayer, especially in the case of the laity, who would not have sufficient time for this; and so it may be concluded that in our daily life private and liturgical prayer need certainly not compete with each other.

If it is primarily applied to the first element, it is a positive, but not an exclusive statement, since the saving power and importance of the redemptive work of Christ (as the worship of God and the sanctification of man) affect man not only through their cultic presentation in the liturgy.

If you believe our liturgies, no marriage may be sundered, but lawyers say six - figure fees can fix what God has blundered....

If we are to speak of extremes — without pejorative intent — at the other end of the spectrum would be those services planned by administrators (whether presidents, deans or chaplains) which have survived as full - blown Christian liturgies expressing the theological tradition behind the institution's establishment.

Those of you who have been to a Passover Seder will recall that there are words that go along with the eating of the meal, a liturgy, if you will.

If we do not take the dismissal seriously in this respect, then the liturgy becomes, as the Old Testament prophets never tired of saying, false worship.

If the features of the earthly city are most fully manifested in its civic rituals and symbols, the fullest expression of the holy and eternal city is found in the liturgy.

If marriage is a sacrament, then the way in which practices that lead to marriage function as liturgies deserves attention.

If most churches face the reality that half or more of their members did not grow up with the programs, heroes, liturgies and lore of the denomination, surely those denominational cultures are increasingly fragile.

There's no excuse for anything less than a prayerful, joyous liturgy here, even if it is 7:30 in the morning.

Even when said in the vernacular («Oh,» grieved my old Catholic neighbor, «if only the «liturgical experts» had merely forced us to switch to the English translation on the right - sided pages of our paperback Roman missals»), the Tridentine Mass, despite its shortcomings (even Archbishop Lefebvre admitted that it needed fine - tuning), conveyed the numinosity» an absolutely vital concept for those who turn to the Orient for their worship» that I was only able to find twenty frustrating years later in St. John Chrysostom's and St. Basil's Divine Liturgies.

If parishes begin to recover the idea of a sung Mass, rather than a Mass at which things are sung, that will be a great improvement to the celebration of the Liturgy.

If a certain form of liturgy has been developed, that is sacred — it must not be changed.

Or, if the traditional imagery is preserved — e.g. in liturgy, where its use is perfectly legitimate — we should see that its real meaning is given adequate interpretation.

If we treat the liturgy seriously, then our young people will too.

If you're looking to add something new to your prayer schedule, I recommend A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton or Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro.

«many prayer books are awful,» she wrote in 1956, if you stick with the liturgy, you are safe» (p. 160).

If there is one area where Pope Benedict's «holy freedom» can be found, it is in his teachings on the liturgy, and his commitment to its renewal.

If the church really is, among other things, the community that remembers Jesus, then liturgy is but the obedience of the practice of the church to the reality of its mind!

If this prospect means fresh attention to the content and role of liturgy, let us not blanch in free church horror or smilingly relax in liturgical satisfaction.

Again, language used in liturgy might communicate more effectively if it is in the vernacular.

If they need liturgy, it is ok.

We need a whole range of ways if we are to begin to explore this Mystery, and Scripture, Liturgy and Tradition offer us a whole range of ways.

If, as Barron asserts, Catholicism «never threw anything out,» then why have Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony — granted pride of place (principum locum) by the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy — been largely lost?

If we must go back to the Reformers, why not go to Ulrich Zwingli, who developed a popular liturgy and led the Reformation over most of Switzerland with great zeal?

Let me continue this deliberation on the theological import of mission and liturgy in the service of working toward a pluralistic nationhood by indulging in more imaginative theological play.61 What if we consider pluralistic living among various religious communities in terms of a large, traditional, rural Indian house?

In fact we all should have some private devotions and should question seriously if they are lacking, because they provide that helpful link not onlywith the liturgy but also with the traditions of those who have gone before us in the practice of faith.

The «full, conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations... to which the Christian people, «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people» [1 Peter 2.9, 4 - 5], have a right and obligation by reason of their baptism» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 14), is not advanced when those Christian people are treated as if they were dimwits, or five - year - olds with short attention spans.

It's easy to say that ritual and liturgy are the heart of that community if almost everyone believes the truths of the faith.

I say I can do anything if I have some authority - give me liturgy, or articles, or Bishop or Caroline Divine, or Canons - but all is against me - but here laity may be secularised and ecclesiastics timid, but there is the infallible, keen - sighted, unwearied, undaunted, tribunal in the background, undaunted amid all worldly troubles and reverses, to inspire a salutary awe into the shufflers and to animate Christ's little ones.»

If one is totally honest, the Tridentine liturgy as practised by the ordinary clergy in a daily «low» Mass was by and large a hurried and not very reverential exercise.

I might suggest that if you look closely; stripping away the traditions, the falsehood and you eventually tire of the contemplative prayer, the candles, the liturgy and the papal «bull», that you won't find Jesus there either.

In fact, I wonder if part of the appeal of the words, the flowers, the lace, the cakes — or, for that matter, of the liturgy, the premarital counseling, and the minister's earnest appeal for «seriousness» and «dignity» — may be a complex rationalizing away of this embarrassingly human event, in short, weddings are an embarrassment because they reveal the limitations of our tidy, virginal, whitewashed, pristine theologies which can not yet deal with incarnation.