Sentences with phrase «liturgical celebrations»

Taking children to Church Children very often model the behaviour of their parents, and so it will be useful to first look at how parents can take part in the liturgical celebrations in Church before we look at how they can help their children to participate.

In the practice of most Christian churches, and especially in Roman Catholicism, there has been a certain reluctance to admit emotion into liturgical celebrations.

At the same time sensitivity to the needs of the faithful demands that liturgical celebrations be creative and meaningful.

The «full, conscious, and active participation in liturgical celebrations... to which the Christian people, «a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a redeemed people» [1 Peter 2.9, 4 - 5], have a right and obligation by reason of their baptism» (Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, 14), is not advanced when those Christian people are treated as if they were dimwits, or five - year - olds with short attention spans.

There was a time not so long ago when professional liturgists would try to exclude Marian themes from liturgical celebrations, and even devotions.

In fact I often regularly lead corporate liturgical celebrations which include songs of worship.

Many have voted with their feet and refuse to attend liturgical celebrations, especially those formats that have been «manufactured» to attract the people.

The festivities and liturgical celebrations of the religions could be the means of fostering a deeper personal and societal reflection on their deeper spiritual message.

Sacrosanctum Concilium states that «all other factors being equal, chant should be given pride of place in liturgical celebrations».

«It is very important to make as clear as possible that no tickets are needed to attend the beatification of John Paul II,» said monsignor Guido Marini, master of Papal Liturgical Celebrations, according to Vatican Radio.

[49] Jesus expected frequent liturgical celebrations of the Eucharist.

As long as a person preserves his external union with the Church by fulfilling his duties, he may well himself decide in Christian freedom whether he prays better, that is to say with greater faith, hope and love at home or at a liturgical celebration.

Much of the current style of liturgical celebration reflects this, from the throat microphone to the widespread allergy against a single word of Latin, from interminable bidding prayers to every child in the class getting to read something or bring up an offertory gift.

Deuteronomy 26:1 - 11 shows how the recitation of Israel's founding events became an annual liturgical celebration and the basis for Israel's theological self - understanding.

We have no doubt that, in substantially the simple form just described, the making and meaning of the Sinai Covenant was from early times re-enacted in a kind of liturgical celebration.

The bishop «obliged the Congregation's long - time parish priest to retire against his will», then «introduced [a] new priest during a liturgical celebration...» (para. 4).

Not exact matches

Moreover, Evangelical Catholicism takes the liturgical laws and rubrics of the Church seriously, as barriers against the deterioration of the liturgy into a communal celebration of ourselves.

In a modest eighty - seven pages (followed by Appendices on liturgical colours, vestments, objects used in worship, and the use of Latin in the liturgy), Rev. Peter Stravinskas covers every detail of the Mass from the Entrance to the Concluding Rites with facts and explanations, often surprising, about the Scriptural origins and contemporary celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy.

Mardi Gras, when understood in its accidental liturgical context, has the potential to bring us to God, and it does when we think of it as a celebration that foreshadows our joy at the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, that joy that can say «Death where is thy sting?»

But, according to the declarations of the magisterium, the expression longe antecellere certainly applies only to the liturgy as a whole (i.e. together with the celebration of the Eucharist), not to any individual liturgical exercise as opposed to any non-liturgical prayer.

It is a situation of not only institutionalized liturgical mediocrity, but also the incorporation into the celebration of Mass of the worst of American religious sentimentality — a conflation of forced folksiness with the unctuousness of the therapeutic jargon and mentality.

Rather, I shall be considering preaching in a liturgical context, which is the celebration of the Eucharist on Sunday morning or at whatever time the main service of worship is conducted on the Lord's Day.

Its concern is with what is sometimes called «liturgical preaching», but I do not mean this in the narrower sense of preaching upon the appointed lections in the celebration of the Eucharist.

The concept of paschal mystery has had enormous influence on the shaping of the new liturgical books and celebrations.

Once bumped out of the groove in which we have been stuck for decades, it will be easier for parish priests to take up some of the reforms which have been encouraged gently by Pope Benedict, to be frightened no longer by traditional vestments and vessels for Mass, by the possibility of at least some celebrations of Mass being ad orientem, or by gently moving away fromanti - liturgical informality.

And there can be no question that one of the great theological achievements of the Missal of Paul VI is the way in which the paschal mystery emerges with clarity as the centre of the liturgical year and, indeed, as the centre of every celebration of the Eucharist.

Such a celebration has a scope broad enough to include all the New Testament means by leitorgia, latria, diakonia (the service of God), and has enough specific concreteness to be verbalized in the liturgical life of the church where it is assembled in public worship.

The words concerning the Lord's supper are liturgical formulations from the Hellenistic celebration of the Eucharist, replacing an older account, of which traces still remain, especially in Luke.

On the other hand, dioceses that have been protected by wise episcopal guidance from liturgical aberrations in the celebration of the Novus Ordo are generally blessed with both clergy and

(In fact, the problem is, at a liturgical level, precisely that: in a laudable desire to encourage a joyful celebration, they inevitably sideline Advent, and pre-empt Christmas as term ends with plays and carols and mince pies galore.

The «new» trend in the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is unmistakably towards what is becoming more clearly one of the hallmarks of Pope Benedict's pontificate: the authentic implementation of the liturgical reform according to the mind of the Second Vatican Council.

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.

By issuing Summorum Pontificum, Pope Benedict has confirmed that Latin Rite Catholicism currently has two liturgical forms for offering the Holy Eucharist: the Novus Ordo as the ordinary form and the Usus Antiquior, the older Roman Rite, as the extraordinary form of celebration.

Thus, an activist socioeconomic and political agenda for theology concerned itself solely with the activity of God in the world; it ignored the intracommunity celebration of Christian liturgical activity, which nurtured and sustained the Christian community on its journey toward a full celebration of life.

Liturgical ideologies of that era encouraged a more relaxed, casual approach to Eucharistic celebration.

Dr. Parrella, a Catholic, concludes that something is deeply amiss in Catholic eucharistic celebrations — a liturgical identity crisis that has escaped our attention.

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.

People who major in small - group worship often miss the music of the sanctuary as well as the liturgical drama related to the church year and the celebration of the church's festival days.

The thing that I miss about going to a liturgical church is saving some Christmas celebration for after Christmas Day.