Sentences with phrase «liturgical movement»

The liturgical movement will presumably call for a new kind of literature on the priesthood and its vocation, differing in emphasis from the pastoral guides of the last three centuries.

The twentieth - century liturgical movement had included a revival of interest in the symbolic value of the Mass ceremonial and this found striking endorsement, specifically in relation to the consecration ritual, in Pius XII's 1947 encyclical Mediator Dei:

A choir of dancers, or soloists, trained and rehearsed in a language of liturgical movement, gives form to symbols and expressions, and serves as a vehicle through which God's presence may be apprehended.

6:14) The Psalms, written to accompany acts of worship in the temple, offer many examples of dance and liturgical movement.

There is a basic order to a Vineyard service in which the liturgical movement of the congregation ends in intimacy with God.

The fact that liturgical movement has encounter and intimacy as its goal has offered Pentecostal and charismatic theologians an opportunity to return to sacramentalism and bring the Eucharist back into the life of these churches.

What intrigues me are the common themes of a liturgical movement toward intimacy and encounter coupled with a corresponding invocation of the Spirit (the epicletic climax of the worship).

The second was the liturgical movement (from which the ecclesio - typical school emerged), which sought a renewal of the Church from the Scriptures and the Fathers.

The debate over whether liturgy or catechesis is most important for saving the faith of the young has taken a new turn in the recent revival of the Liturgical movement.

On the other hand, he was certainly a great hero to the younger anti-Nazi campaigners, such as the «White Rose» group at Munich University (Hans and Sophie School — who were, incidentally, also inspired by the writings of another great Catholic, John Henry Newman) and the youth group at St Ludwig's Church in the same city who combined opposition to National Socialism with devout Catholicism and enthusiasm for the emerging liturgical movement.

In the history of the liturgy and the liturgical movement this is certainly a highwater mark that can hardly be surpassed.

Historians of the Roman liturgy generally reckon the restorations of the Easter Vigil (by Pius XII) and the adult catechumenate (by Vatican II) as two of the signal accomplishments of the twentieth - century liturgical movement.

This ideal descends from the liturgical movement of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The liturgical movement has developed across denominations.

During the past two decades an unlikely wave of liturgical enthusiasm has swept over American evangelicalism, but it is too early to tell whether or not evangelicalism, lacking any liturgical tradition of its own, has the resources to sustain a liturgical movement.

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.

Nonetheless, it is true that there are incompatible theological ideologies abroad in the Church at the moment, which have often become, falsely, attached to particular liturgical movements with their attendant catechesis and parochial practice.

For a century already, the ecumenical and liturgical movements have been chipping away at the old divisions in dogma and ritual.

Not exact matches

But first the movement is emotional, liturgical and imaginative; it requires forming a vision of the future free of the fearful dreams of entrenched power.

«At the bottom of this is the humility of the Crucified, which will always be contrasted by the great powers of the world, but which generates a real hope that is manifested in the creative vitality of the Church: in her communities and her movements, in the new responsibility of the laity, in ecumenical relations, in liturgical and spiritual experiences.

For their liturgical life they owe much to the liturgical renewal movement in the Reformed churches of French - speaking Switzerland.

We had been released by our supporting religious denominations from the encumbrances of liturgical and institutional forms to go with the «movement» for racial justice and for peace.

I am intrigued by the creative possibilities of ancient - future worship — liturgical structure overlaid with image, music and movement, technologically aware but refusing to flaunt it.

Some might object to this prediction, insisting that there is within our movement a considerable emphasis on personal spirituality and corporate liturgical life that should keep the movement from being merely academic.

Without Vatican II, the movement for the reform of Catholic worship might have ended in schism, or, short of that, in an ongoing liturgical chaos within the Church that would dwarf anything Vatican II brought in its wake.

The house gatherings of the Church in China or the Basic Ecclesial Communities in Latin America, the liturgical renewal, biblical renewal, the revival of the monastic vocation, the charismatic movement, are indications of the renewal possibilities of the Church of Jesus Christ.

It dramatically portrays as never before that churches around the world have reached a critical point in the movement from being more or less homogenous in faith, worship and life to a situation of theological and liturgical heterogeneity, rooted in a profound commitment to express Christian faith and witness in terms of particular local cultural idioms.

They have little to say, perhaps because the data ill fit their historiographic image, about the fact that American Catholicism during this «ghetto» period produced great pioneers of the liturgical and social - action movements like Virgil Michel.

For dance to become liturgical dance — for it to call God into the midst of a celebration, for it to enliven and embody a particular scriptural message, and for it to help create and enrich a worshiping atmosphere — it needs to be carefully crafted to fit the context of the entire liturgy, so people can respond without being distracted either by the bodies or the abruptness of the movements.

Liturgical dance today entails more than gestures or movements offered by the priest or minister.