Sentences with phrase «in liturgy»

St. Augustine's is Anglican in its design: rich in liturgy, Biblically - based preaching, traditional and contemporary music.

AQA, GCSE Religious Studies B, NEW Specification B: Catholic Christianity, Unit 3.2 Music in the Liturgy.

(3.2) «Music in the liturgy» 22 slides to aid pages 66 & 67.

These included not allowing students with no religion to be admitted, if the school was undersubscribed — something the school has now changed; and having a «Catholic service criterion», which gives priority to parents who, for at least three years, have carried out activities including «Assisting in the Liturgy: for example by reading, singing in the choir or playing an instrument, altar serving, flower arranging.»

In the Liturgy of Holy Thursday, for example, the doge wears a long cassocklike robe in scarlet to commemorate the shedding of Christ's blood, and in Tintoretto's painting Christ's Agony in the Garden Christ wears the same scarlet robe.

The church so constituted herself in her liturgy.

Not having a fixed definition makes it easier to conserve spontaneity in the liturgy and more difficult to reduce the liturgy into a mechanism for attaining a glossolalic trance.

«Just as the entire life and passion of Christ was directed primarily and comprehensively to the glorification of God, and as even the salvation of man is subordinated to this goal, likewise in the liturgy the soteriological purpose of the rite (santificatio hominis) is totally subordinated to its latreutical purpose (cultus divinus)... The two inseparable objectives of the liturgy, sanctification and homage, do not simply run side by side, but have an ordered relationship to one another; the act of grace is subordinate to the rite (David Berger, Thomas Aquinas and the Liturgy, 2004, pp.73 - 4, 87).»

Too many abuses in the Liturgy appear to put an emphasis on the Eucharist as fundamentally a work of the community, of those actually gathered at a particular celebration.

Belonging to the Eucharist as Laity The Christian existence that is expressed by lay people in the Liturgy is, however, precisely an existence as lay people.

[17] St. Athanasius, Discourse Against the Pagans, in The Liturgy of the Hours, vol.

The most fundamental way in which to characterise the participation of lay people in the Liturgy is by saying that it is an expression of their existence as Christian people.

We do so through private prayer, by participating in the liturgy, and by spiritual reading and meditation.

Parents should not expect their children to take part in the liturgy unguided, left to themselves.

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.

I long for more social justice in our liturgy, but more so in our actions.

In The Liturgy as Dance Carolyn Deitering writes, «Processions, prostrations, encircling of the altar or Torah, bowing, lifting the hands in prayer, swaying and dancing were all embraced as human actions which assisted the community's prayer to Yahweh.»

The expression of this dimension of prayer, that we pray together with the whole people of God, is brought to articulation in the liturgy, in the public prayer of the gathered community.

Some women struggle and even manage to survive in the traditional church on Sunday morning by changing the words in the liturgy and hymns to female words — Father to Mother, King to Queen, Him to Her — when speaking of God.

In preaching, teaching, congregational life, and sometimes in liturgy, they have pursued a course of accommodation to secularism.

The changes in the liturgy are rooted in the theological stirrings after World War I: the gradual breakdown of neo-Scholastic metaphysics, the beginning of Catholic biblical scholarship, and a return to the study of the church fathers.

At the same time, what today passes for transcendence in liturgy is illusory.

What before the reforms passed for transcendence in liturgy was cast in a hardened ritualistic shell that muted the profoundly personal reality taking place in the sacramental act.

I am not proposing a new otherworldly piety in our liturgy but simply a re-creation of holiness and transcendence in liturgical form.

To me, an appreciation of both logic and language suggests that we retain the use of «Lord» in liturgy until we can find a better word than «God» as a substitute.

Adams explains why both logic and language suggest that we retain the use of «Lord» in liturgy until we can find a better word than «God» as a substitute.

In his syndicated article, Fr Richard McBrien (Professor of Theology at Notre Dame) makes a similar point: «The lessening of interest in private devotions is more likely a sign that the Church is spiritually healthier now because its spiritual life is, as the Council hoped it would be, rooted more directly in the liturgy itself and especially inthe Eucharist» (The Tidings, Los Angeles 28 March A Matter of Health Many theologians in fact rather look forward to the withering of private devotions, as a vindication that maturity has arrived.

This is why a certain sameness is essential in liturgy, at least to the extent that liturgy celebrates in some way the importance of Jesus in the contemporary context.

In this context, the witness of the collective life of the Church takes on a special healing power: in the liturgy, in Christian marriage, and in the witness of authentic religious life.

Protestants and Catholics alike have shown increasing interest in liturgy as the heart of such communal activity.

It is difficult to cultivate an awareness and appreciation of ambiguity and mystery in worship when images are projected at strategically timed moments in the liturgy for the purpose of instructing worshipers what to think and feel.

nurture, especially in liturgy.

But what is really central in the liturgy is the mystical element — that the members of the body of Christ be prayerfully incorporated into the sacrifice offered by Christ on the altar.

Furthermore, by the time of Jesus even the utterance of the Name was allowed only on a very few occasions, by the priests in the liturgy of the temple.

Thus the process of appropriation includes the public action of the community and the personal internalization by the individual members who participate in the liturgy.

The decision of the Church this week to establish Personal Ordinariates to give Anglican converts flexibility in their liturgy is just the latest step towards reaffirming that Catholic orthodoxy is ready for whatever the world may bring.

It was confusing and weird to me but there in the liturgy of Ash Wednesday, as we prayed and read and worshipped through the admission of our sin, I released a breath I didn't know I had been holding.

Three different studies in different denominational traditions show that lament psalms and songs of lament are conspicuously absent in our liturgy, our hymnals, and our worship services.

And does what we are doing and saying in the liturgy fit the God whom we worship?

When I couldn't find my way through the clutter of praise and worship, I found Jesus in the silence and in the liturgy.

Two congregations on the West Coast intentionally use clear, vernacular language in liturgy.

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

This, in a profound sense, is the reason that any change in the liturgy will always trouble people on one side or the other.

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

This thematic through - line extended in the other public utterances in the liturgy.

I have no objection to such language, especially in liturgy.

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.

Differences of opinion emerge on the use of «innovation» in the liturgy.

Ideally, going to church and participating in the liturgy — saying the same words that have been repeated for thousands of years — is about being formed in virtue and schooled in faith.

The imagination is attuned to the sounds, sights, scents, that is, physical sensations, so that the interstices or the spacelets of the imagination can be formed by the drama of the Mass. 12 Participating in the liturgy and the sacraments imprints upon the imagination beneficial experiences which influence the intellect and will and, subsequently, generate responses and actions that ow into culture.