Sentences with phrase «church prayer books»

«These people just don't deal in any book; they sell school texts which are on high demand as well as church prayer books, to unsuspecting buyers,» Jjemba said.

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The book includes sections on liturgy and time, on the significance of the church building, on direction in liturgical prayer, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, music, and more.

The Church of England has said the Book of Common Prayer could be crucial to helping dementia sufferers... More

This, despite one murder occurring in a church (A Taste for Death, 1986), a novel set in a theological college (Death in Holy Orders, 2001), another named Original Sin (1994), still another titled directly from the Book or Common Prayer (Devices and Desires, 1989), as well as an apocalyptic Christian allegory (The Children of Men, 1992).

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For many the use of the set services of the Christian Church, as found in the traditional prayer books, can be of great value.

«The state of matrimony», as the Prayer Book puts it, has been «consecrated to such an excellent mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church.»

«In my view it is vital that people are given the opportunity to hear the magical language of The Book of Common Prayer in church.

(ENTIRE BOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and praBOOK) This book is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prabook is addressed to both believers and unbelievers and examines a number of areas of religious thought and practice including an approach to intelligible religion, the fundamentals of religious experience, the existence and nature of God, the problem of good and evil, the meaning of the supernatural and of future life, the significance of Christ, the Church, the Bible, miracles and prayer.

But perfectly expressing the sacramental view of scripture is what is said after the lectionary reading in the New Zealand Book of Common Prayer: «Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.»

That was 34 years ago and I'm still filling it from every resource, prayer, scripture, books, conferences, fellowship, Church, and appropriate works.

An Episcopal Church quarrel over the ordination of women, the Book of Common Prayer, who gets the property in separation and the division of memorial gifts.

It does not uphold the doctrine, discipline and worship of the church as set forth in the Book of Common Prayer...»

Repeatedly he argued that the introduction of women priests, the new prayer book and other changes in the Episcopal Church had taken it out of the mainstream of Episcopalianism; that in fact the schismatic group, by separating itself from all that «error,» is the faithful remnant.

Male spirituality is often characterized as more comfortable with a hammer on the church roof than a prayer book in the pews.

Many of these prayers have been incorporated in the Methodist Book of Worship for Church and Home.

The English Prayer Book perpetuated this rendering, which is still used in many churches.

The lights went on for me when I started worshipping at an Anglican Church and when I began to integrate the Book of Common Prayer into my devotional life.

The prayers of the Church which have been used through the centuries, such as the English Book of Common Prayer, contain many moods but center in the adoration and praise which lie at the heart of worship.

We hear of fast - days on the Jewish model, but on different days, and the adoption by the Church of the Old Testament as a sacred book played a large part in forming the prayers as well as the instruction of Christians.

This question of identity can be important According to the 1928 Church of England Prayer Book, the service of Burial was not to be used for the unbaptized.

Consider the first - person plurals of the Lord's Prayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofPrayer («Our Father...»), Jesus's prayers before meals, his blessing of children, the audible prayers both in the Temple and in synagogues (often called «prayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofprayer houses»), the stories of national prayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters ofprayer in the Old Testament, and the communal prayers of the early Christian churches recorded in the book of Acts and the letters of Paul.

How splendid it would be if this book leads to the re-introduction of these prayers or even, dare we hope, that the English bishops would once again dedicate our country to Our Blessed Lady and St Peter, as was done annually in every Catholic church in England until the Second Vatican Council.

Bonhoeffer's popular book Life Together deals with the practical relations of the church's life in Christ, including his concept of Christian community; how the community should worship by always including scripture, hymns and prayer both individual and common; personal worship that includes meditation, prayer and intercession; the problems of the church that require learning control of the tongue, meekness, listening, forbearing and proclaming.

By the end of the book we are exhorted to intone the Jabez prayer every morning, to tape a copy of the prayer on our Bible, day - timer or bathroom mirror, and to pray the prayer for our «family, friends, and local church.»

His books, Jesus For President, The Irresistible Revolution, and Becoming the Answer to Our Prayers, are gentle yet challenging introductions to a way of life that much of the Western Church has forgotten, but which, he argues, has always been central to our faith.

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The book reflects a Mennonite understanding of the church as a community of reconciliation, as stressed in scriptural texts such as Matthew 18 and John 20, wherein Jesus explicitly ties God's forgiveness of people to their forgiveness of others, especially in the Lord's Prayer.

In public worship (there was, after all, no other legal option) he prayed with a congregation that used Cranmer's superbly crafted Book of Common Prayer and heard at these same services the Bishop's Bible (the immediate predecessor to the King James Authorized Version), echoes of both of which can be detected in the plays, and of course he was buried in Stratford's Trinity Church; while privately he probably held to the Old Religion throughout his life, as recent research is making increasingly evident.

The beautiful opening of the Third Eucharistic Prayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third cePrayer of the Church of England's Alternative Service Book (1980) draws its inspiration from the Eucharistic prayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third ceprayer found in the Apostolic Tradition of Hippolytus of Rome (c.l70 — t ~ 236), which is thought to represent a tradition of the early third century.

And these good ladies had items in the newspapers and on the internet, the Daily Telegraph announcing that: «Hilary Cotton, chair of Women And The Church (Watch), the group which led the campaign for female bishops, said the shift away from the traditional patriarchal language of the Book of Common Prayer in already at an «advanced» stage in some quarters».

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Some argued that we should categorize the books — e.g., books that have shaped our prayer, books that have shaped our social action, books that have shaped our church life, and so forth.

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Even when printing made the production of whole Bibles much easier, many churches continued to include a selection of set readings in their mass or prayer books.

I found these prayers in the Psalms, in the Book of Common Prayer, from church history, through the Daily Office, and in the writings of other followers of Jesus from a variety of church traditions.

In this context we can appreciate the contribution of the Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is bringing into the Church the influence of the Sarum rite in the Book of Common Prayer for an English Evensong now to be completed byBenediction.

The remainder of this book will be given to further and detailed development of the definition just suggested, to the ways in which we may pray in words and in thought, to the place of prayer in public worship and above all in the Holy Communion or Lord's Supper — which all Christians save the Quakers and the Salvation Army know to be the central act of public worship, however much they may sometimes slight that importance in church practice — and finally to see how it all «fits in» — how faith and action are related to, and find fulfillment in, prayer both private and public.

Frank Viola has noticed many similar patterns in prayer meetings, and in his book Finding Organic Church, he writes this:

The Psalter is the church's prayer book, and the reformers saw it as an inspired document able to teach believers both how to praise God with «hallelujahs» and how to receive comfort from God when the soul is distraught and cast down.

My Episcopal Church's Book of Common Prayer provides for the reservation of the sacrament to administer to those who are unable to come to church for CommChurch's Book of Common Prayer provides for the reservation of the sacrament to administer to those who are unable to come to church for Commchurch for Communion.

They stressed Episcopal Prayer Book worship, the sacraments of the Church, and urged the necessity of ordination only by bishops, who were supposed to stand in line that went back to the apostles.

«I take my prayer book and hurry to my room, or if it be the day and hour... to the church.»

With the restoration of Charles II (1630 - 85, ruled 1660 - 85), the Church of England was re-established and the Prayer Book and episcopacy reintroduced.

Too often, someone in a church will read a book, or hear of another church somewhere that is doing something, and they will think it is a good idea, and will try and charge ahead without ever consulting others in the church, or consulting the leadership of the church, or, most importantly, consulting God through prayer and fasting.

Deeply rooted in the Bible, The Book of Common Prayer was created in 1549 as the traditional service book of the Church of EnglBook of Common Prayer was created in 1549 as the traditional service book of the Church of Englbook of the Church of England.

For some, high church happens when every word and gesture is pre-scripted by a prayer book or missal.

Cromwell wished a national Church, supported by the State and tithes, but without bishops or the Book of Common Prayer.

In the reaction from the Commonwealth, episcopacy was restored, the Book of Common Prayer was ordered read in all the churches, and discriminatory legislation was passed against dissenters.