Sentences with phrase «like liturgy»

Janet Baxindale, who lectures around the country on the spiritual potential of Catholic traditions like the Liturgy of the Hours, comments, «Among the adults I - teach, more often than not, a simple presentation of the theology of the liturgy and the role of all the baptized in the liturgical prayer of the church is greeted with «I never knew that.»»

Yet jazz, like liturgy, also acknowledges the power of death.

I am a fan of liturgy, not because I like liturgy, but because it keeps me grounded in Christ and what He has done, is doing and will yet do.

I don't like the liturgy or music in some of the other religions available in the United States.

Not exact matches

Liturgy has often become shallow, mawkish and glib so that it appears more like a children's party than an attempt to worship God with real sincerity and depth.

We like to say that we are «anti - excellence / pro-participation», meaning that the liturgy is led by the people who show up...»

What Christianity would have been like without its great hymns and oratorios, the poetry of the Bible, the time - transcending liturgies of the sacraments, and the distinctive beauty of Christian houses of worship is hard to contemplate.

I always long for liturgy on the big days like this, I want the big church - y words and communion and prayers, the same every year.

«Like all new liturgies, it takes a while for people to get used to it but I think when they do they find it profoundly moving.

What we should like to emphasize is this: There is a right institutional and legal piety which rightly makes demands on us in the ecclesiastical regulations about the liturgy, fasting, Sunday Mass, etc..

Liturgy and politics are not like the salt and pepper that can be added to your scrambled egg; they are more like the scramble and the egg.

Big words like «salvation», «save», sacrifice», «redeemer», «redemption», «righteousness», «repentence», «mercy», «sin», «forgiveness», «born again», «second coming», «God», «Jesus», and «Bible» and collections of words like «the creeds», «Lord's Prayer», and «liturgies» have acquired meanings that are serious distortions of their biblical and traditional meanings.

This ministry, like all others, is symbolically condensed in the liturgy.

A summary treatment of the subject, like the chapter on the Song of Songs in Jean Danielou's The Bible and the Liturgy, with its wealth of citations from the early Church, would establish his point even more convincingly.

I would like to offer a few thoughts after reading Archbishop Malcolm Ranjith's surprisingly forthright remarks in «True Development of the Liturgy» (May 2009).

We like to think that there are no politics when it comes to liturgy but Cardinal Newman's image is not without point: «The rock of St. Peter on its summit enjoys a pure and serene atmosphere, but there is a great deal of Roman malaria at the foot of it.»

I liked the fact that the Psalm numbers are those of the Church (and the Fathers) rather than the now fashionable Hebrew numbers (I assume this is because the liturgy still uses the traditional Catholic Christian numbering system).

Like Jimmie she has a special responsiveness to liturgy.

I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one - man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with «full - time paid ministry» pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don't like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don't believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament.

The point of correcting bad habits is to celebrate the Novus Ordo of Paul VI with dignity and beauty, so that Holy Mass is experienced for what it is: our participation in the liturgy of saints and angels in heaven» where, I am quite confident, they don't sing treacly confections like «Gather Us In.»

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.»

People preferring «high» liturgy assume that a liturgical language's validity is like a poodle's pedigree — the further back in time it can be traced, the better.

What about the historic Christian sacraments like baptism and the Eucharist, and what about the liturgies of the churches?

You might also like Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by our friends Shane Claiborne, Enuma Okoro, and Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove.

I was kidding, but he liked the idea, so when he came home from work he maintained a cheerful silence (communicating via sign language that he wanted a glass of wine, whereupon his silence grew even more cheerful) and spent some time sketching out a little liturgy involving the reading of the Gospel story, the handing - over of a baby doll, the writing of a note, and the loosing of his tongue to proclaim the Benedictus.

In the high churches they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a strand of scaffolding who have long since forgotten their danger.

Irish Anglicanism was very much centered on the Book of Common Prayer, and in my experience of the liturgy, repeated time and time again, the words and concepts and images were like empty booklets that could slowly be filled with meaning.

We envisioned the liturgy as providing something like a rite of passage for the students, a kind of leave - taking from an extraordinary experience, a corporate act of closure.

What one may study independently of congregations are relative abstractions from the concrete actuality of particular congregations of Christians like «the history of dogma» or «the history of liturgy» or «the history of canon law.»

Liturgy today is too much like this third interpretation.

If the liturgy has been hurled at us like a stone — an obligatory stone — for too many years, the solution is not to transform it into an action dependent upon our participation as a prerequisite for its meaning, rather than a response to God's meaning already present.

After the extreme emotion of Friday's liturgy, silence is necessary, like the silence in the house after a funeral when the guests have left, and you no longer have to keep a brave face.

Carolus had no idea how fragile the whole great construction of «Christendom» was in many of its parts, and that only something like the bedrock of the Myth to end all myths remained invulnerable — trust in God through Jesus, prayer, love of neighbour, symbolised in public liturgy.

As such, Glimmer aspires to enjoy itself like an imperfect liturgy on the «old» domains of fragility and intimacy; it seeks to defend the inheritance of this gift for our times.

Some of them were kind of spiritual, like Simon Hantaï, who was actually Hungarian, Catholic, and wrote the Catholic liturgy onto the ground of an early canvas.