Sentences with phrase «sacred liturgy»

As Catholics we believe that the celebration of the sacred Liturgy is vital to our witness to the gospel, to our works of charity, and to our personal holiness.

The sacred Liturgy is important to every Catholic who sincerely desires to worship God in spirit and in truth.

This fundamental misinterpretation and misguided perception of the music of the sacred liturgy that is leading us down the path towards ever more fashionable styles of music being introduced to the Eucharist.

Where it holds its own is in the sacred liturgy, exactly because it can not be confused with music of other styles.

It doesn't take that much more time to sing all six verses of «For All the Saints» or all four verses of «Crown Him with Many Crowns»; cutting such great texts by two - thirds or one - half inevitably sends the signal that music in the liturgy is filler» and there is no room for filler in the sacred liturgy.

There is a pressing need, he argues, to find the way out of contemporary liturgical banality in order to rediscover «something of the mysterium tremens et fascinans» of what the sacred liturgy, at its best, can truly express.

Here he offers insights into the scripturally based teaching on sacred liturgy as promulgated in Sacrosanctum Concilium during the Second Vatican Council.

He pointed out the uniqueness of the messianic character of Israel's religion in whose sacred liturgy and moral teaching humanity is prepared to receive Christ who is «Lord of history and the human heart».

The Christian tradition of singing the sacred Liturgy, a hallmark of Christian worship from antiquity, has largely been replaced by saying the Liturgical prayers and singing something else.

Such sharing in Christ's being and action is at the heart of our participation in the sacred liturgy.

Not exact matches

We have replaced liturgy and sacred music with slick video productions and user - friendly messages.

In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language».

«[The lay person does] not participate intrinsically in the Liturgy of the Eucharist as Sacrifice and Sacrament and ministryfrom the persons of the sacred ministers to the People of God».

In the liturgy «sacred» means «the glorification of God and the sanctification of the faithful».

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

He went on to say: «The other arts — architecture, painting, vestments, and the arts of movement — each contribute to and support the beauty of the liturgy, but still the art of music is greater even than that of any other art, because it forms a necessary or integral part of the solemn liturgy, because it is so intimately bound to the sacred action, defining and differentiating the various parts in character, motion and importance.»

(CCC: 2500) People have always been drawn to Christian faith by the sacred beauty that the Church offers us in the revelation of God in Jesus, scripture, liturgy, sacraments, lives of the saints, sacred art, miracles of conversion and healing, and in her own very nature.

Again and again German priests and monks insisted that missions among the Slays on their eastern borders must be conducted by them, and opposed the use of translations of the sacred books and the liturgy into Slavonic, presumably because it would encourage Slavic political and ecclesiastical independence of their rule.

The faith was not merely explained in its doctrine but reflected in sacred art, music, architecture, and the poetry of liturgy.

Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.

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

Liturgy and laundry are the work of the people, according to Kathleen Norris, and now I can bear witness: the line between sacred work and secular work doesn't exist anymore when the Spirit lives and moves within us.

Christian liturgy is an example of cultural performance grounded in a ritual mode but puts together «types of performance that are sacred and secular, that are religious, aesthetic, and recreational», is «quasi-theatrical» but «is no pretense, but an actual, here and now doing» Following Schechner, Driver braids «efficacious» aspects of ritual performance with «entertaining» elements of «aesthetic» theatre.

Christian liturgy, like other forms of sacred rituals, is «an efficacious performance that invokes the presence and action of powers which, without the ritual, would not be present or active at that time and place.»

Our liturgy is sacred ritual because it creates anticipation and receptivity to the Spirit of the Risen Christ in the experience of the participants.

A sense of the sacred, celebration of the liturgy, wonder and gratitude: these are the things in which we need to be re-educated not justfor the joy of living in an enchanted «Liturgical City» but because it is the only way to keep our education humane and our life civilised.

a) Verses I - 13 is a narrative account of the actual liturgy of dedication and the movement of the ark, Israel's most sacred symbol, into the temple.

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?

These charges are over the top and are an example of Church and State working far to chummy to secure power (the most appropriate response the Church should have would be to weep at the violation of their sacred moment and invite the band to stay for the rest of the liturgy).

Both men, it should be noted, defended Vatican II, even as they properly criticized those who misrepresented the Council and dishonored sacred Catholic liturgy.

And all this should be happening in a church where sacred images help to focus the mind on prayer, and where everything used in the liturgy is beautiful and of good quality.

As I've embraced the liturgy and begun to recognize our needs for times of celebration and ritual, for the acknowledgment of what is significant in our years and weeks and days, I've come to see that space is sacred.