Sentences with phrase «call liturgy»

The second part will seem more obscure until one realizes that for Confucius «ritual» is not a narrow category but one that encompasses everything from what we would call liturgy to the common courtesies of everyday life.

In worship God comes to us in, with and through the beautiful and festive dance we call the liturgy.

The eucharistic preface of All Saints» Day in the Roman rite calls the liturgy «the festival of your holy city, the heavenly Jerusalem, our mother.»

Not exact matches

Participants worshipped according to ancient confessional liturgies and in sessions that seemed to call for adoration of earthbound «spirits» and even the earth itself.

Although as many as 70 to 80 percent call themselves Orthodox and have been baptized, only 2 to 4 percent regularly attend the liturgy.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

It was experiential religion, whether Catholic Holy Week liturgies in Rome, black Baptist call - and - response preaching and hymnody in Harlem, or Anabaptist communitarianism, that never failed to grab him.

But we agree with him in calling for a translation, faithful to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, «that is accurate, inspiring, reverent, proclaimable, understandable, pastoral in every sense - a text that raises our minds and hearts to God».

In the liturgy for the imposition of the ashes, the words alternate between the so - called «fall» story in Genesis and Mark's summary of Jesus» central theme for preaching:» [Remember] you are dust, and to dust you shall return» (Gen. 3:19), and «Repent, and believe in the gospel» (Mark 1:15).

From the pulpit, Hall delivered the liturgy with a strong message to his faithful to call for action by their legislators to institute stricter laws banning access to semi-automatic rifles, such as the one police said the gunman used in Friday's massacre.

The Church of England's call for a transgender liturgy misses the philosophical implications of transgenderism.

Given this interest in spiritual practices and things monastic, it is not surprising that more and more people are practicing the daily office (also called «divine office,» «office,» «liturgy of the hours» or «common prayer»).

He is calling neither for the restoration of the Tridentine Latin liturgy nor for a return to the devotional practices of past generations.

They may have formal liturgies, may have pastors (sometimes called «released ministers»), and may even recognize and practice communion and water baptism.

At the very time of its triumph the liturgy has been most radically called in question.

We will here not discuss in detail in what sense and with what reservations the liturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the lliturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the lLiturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the liturgyliturgy.

After finishing his homily at the morning's Mass, the small - town priest briefly interrupted the liturgy for about ten minutes in order to call attention to a terribly special occasion in their parish: the sixtieth birthday of a parishioner in the front row.

A symptom of this attitude is the group that calls itself Una Voce and which wants especially, though not only, to preserve the Latin liturgy: it corresponds to the Latin Mass Society in England and other similar organizations in other countries.

They become Orthodox both because of the hard rock they call truth and because of a taste that lingers after experiencing the liturgy.

The public worship of the Christian community gathers up the liturgy of the human city, what Teilhard de Chardin called the «Mass on the World,» the «Hymn of the Universe,» and what Karl Rahner spoke of as the «Liturgy of the World.liturgy of the human city, what Teilhard de Chardin called the «Mass on the World,» the «Hymn of the Universe,» and what Karl Rahner spoke of as the «Liturgy of the World.Liturgy of the World.»

Local communities, he says, «are not able to understand themselves as mature, grown - up, interdependent churches, One of the best examples is the Zairean liturgy, which should have been called the «Zairean Liturgy,» but it is called the «Liturgy of the Roman Rite for Zaire.liturgy, which should have been called the «Zairean Liturgy,» but it is called the «Liturgy of the Roman Rite for Zaire.Liturgy,» but it is called the «Liturgy of the Roman Rite for Zaire.Liturgy of the Roman Rite for Zaire.»

Or as it's called in the liturgy, «The Passion of Our Lord according to St. Mark.»

Christian liturgies and feasts today are full of elements borrowed down through the centuries from what we have pejoratively called «paganism.»

From Dianna: You seem to have a pretty unusual faith journey, but one thing I notice throughout each of the four major steps (Catholic - Hindu - Anglican - Orthodox) is the inherent beauty in each of those worship styles - Catholicism has a very beautiful set routine of liturgy, the Hindu call to prayer is (to me) one of the most beautiful sounds in the world, and Anglican services tend to be quite beautiful as well.

Thus the four-fold action of the Eucharist, following the pattern of Christ's action, came to be what Dom Gregory Dix has called the «shape» of the Liturgy.

Call it Choir, or Liturgy, or Preaching, or being on the Board.

It was worship through what has been called by many names in the Christian tradition: the Lord's Supper, the Holy Communion, the Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy, the Holy Mysteries, the Mass..

These «Old Lutherans,» as they were called, refused to use the new orders of service — which were all Reformed in theology — and continued using historic Lutheran liturgies.

Indeed, whenever there is a need to call forth some sense of solemn liturgy a modal piece comes on featuring vague outlines of Kyrie Eleison and Agnus Dei.

In addition to spending a lot of time in Isaiah and the Gospels, for my own reading in the mornings, I've always turned to Luci Shaw's book for Advent and Christmas poetry called Accompanied by Angels: Poems of the Incarnation or her co-written devotional with Madeleine L'Engle called Wintersong: Christmas Readings along with my daily time with Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals.

In Hegel, Harrington notes an important role of the church in the culture, what Hegel called the «liturgy of community.»

The renovation he calls for must give attention to the ideas and spirituality of our shared past, to a renewal of prayer in all its modes, and to a liturgy that is fitting to the great events it celebrates.

God's terminal illness — which Harrington believes is not being stayed by the so - called evangelical movement or other manifestations of a renewed religiosity — has given rise to other liturgies which are not as well developed as that of what Hegel called revealed religion.

Asked to characterize the American groups, sometimes called «orthodox Episcopalians,» Leslie Fairfield, professor of church history at Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry in Ambridge, Pennsylvania, said in an interview: «In general, they are Anglo - Catholic in liturgy, evangelical in theology and charismatic in piety.»

The motu proprio, he insists, «compromises thecoherence of the Church's self - understanding and threatens to reduce the liturgy to a simple matter of individual «taste» rather than what it is meant to be: an accurate reflection of what we believe as Catholic Christians who live in the twenty - first century»: for that, of course is utterly different from what Catholic Christians who lived in previous centuries (and in the twentieth century before the sixties) believed: hence, the absolute indefensibility of what he calls «this medieval rite».

This article is arguably hypocritical as well as stomach - churning, since it begins with the suggestion that «Because of the amazingly diverse multicultural contexts in which pastoral ministers are called upon to work today, it is impossible to prescribe one liturgical model that will be always and everywhere appropriate»: this flexible and open - minded liturgist then proceeded to argue in The Tablet that only the Mass of Paul VI is always and everywhere appropriate and that its very existence automatically abrogated all previous liturgies for ever: presumably those who prefer the older form are not to be given the dignity of a group or «culture» to be catered for by his free and easy multicultural ways, but are to be simply dismissed as a bunch of liturgical perverts.

What had gone wrong in the reform of the liturgy called for by Sacrosanctum Concilium now itself needed to be reformed.

For example, in the structures of Christian liturgy in the Protestant tradition, a «call to confession» or an «affirmation of faith» would represent performance in the confessional mode.

All Christ's faithful are called to hand it on from generation to generation, by professing the faith, by living it in fraternal sharing, and by celebrating it in liturgy and prayer.6

By no means do we have to reckon exclusively with oral tradition... Personally I have... tried to typologize the so - called «prophetical literature» in two main groups: «The liturgical type» («liturgy» taken as a purely form - literary term) to be found in Nah., Hab., Joel, «Deuter - Isa,» et al., with real «writers» behind them, and probably from the very beginning taken down in writing, and «the diwan type» (no very good term, I admit), e.g., Am., Proto - Isa., etc., primarily resting on oral transmission...

In the Athanasian Creed, that ancient canticle of Christian faith still found in the service books of many Christian communions, there is a fine statement which gives the proper setting for any discussion of Christian worship and, a fortiori, for a discussion of the central act of Christian worship, the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Divine Mysteries, the Liturgy, the Mass — call it what you will.

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.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church quotes St Justin Martyr: «On the day we call the day of the sun, all who dwell in the city of country gather...» and notes that «The liturgy of the Eucharist unfolds according to a fundamental structure which has been preserved throughout the centuries down to our own day.

But whereas most seeker churches work with the models of the shopping mall and the television audience in designing their space and worship service, Fabian likens worship at St. Gregory's to a rock concert, which he calls the modern secular experience that most closely resembles the divine liturgy.

And so when one reads the actual documents that the Council produced, especially the four Constitutions on liturgy, revelation, the Church, and the Church in the modern world, which Pope Benedict recently called «the four cardinal points of our guiding compass,» one finds all sorts of beauty, goodness, and truth, authority, nobility, gravity, and unity.

It has been said over and over again, by Christians of all kinds in this mainstream of historic Christianity, that the Eucharist, the Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, the Liturgy, the Divine Mysteries, the Mass — call it what you will — is the Church's characteristic action.