Sentences with phrase «liturgical prayer of the church»

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.»»

Now perhaps we are ready to understand a great liturgical prayer of the church, which we may have heard and wondered about often:

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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.

Hence non-liturgical prayer may well in certain cases be holier and of greater value for the Church than liturgical prayer.

Who would deny, for example, that the prayer of a martyr in his lonely prison cell before his execution, in which he unites himself completely with the death of Christ has greater dignity and validity before God and for his Church than many liturgical prayers?

We do not deny that liturgical and private prayer depend on one another, but because of the very nature of the Church it must be said that private prayer, especially if made in common, has a priority over official liturgical prayer whose ground and centre it remains.

It seems clearly to have been added in the liturgical use of the prayer in some churches.

is not found in the best manuscripts of Matthew and Luke, and is either an independent later piece of oral tradition, or a liturgical conclusion which the church added when the prayer came to be used in worship.

But it is still true that when the chief act of worship on a Sunday is in Anglican circles Mattins or Morning Prayer and in «reformed» churches a much more sermon - centered type of worship, there is also a liturgical or quasi-liturgical setting for the proclamation of the gospel.

Binding the prayers ofthe liturgy more closely to the words of the original Latin of the Roman Rite brought a much - needed objectivity to the Church's liturgical life.

In the light of this wider purpose it becomes apparent that the liturgical reforms envisioned by Sacrosanctum Concilium, however well or badly they may have been implemented, were motivated by a desire to make the prayer life of the Church more accessible.

We reflect the liturgical and devotional dimensions through the use of sacramentals and the rich prayer heritage of the Church.

The differing translations of Jesus» Aramaic into Greek and the liturgical uses of the prayer in the church led to the two Greek versions.

Because of his concern for the situation of the Church, Matthew expresses the Lord's Prayer (6:9 - 13) in a form more «liturgical» than that in Luke (11:2 - 4).

They include the enrichment of common worship by lectionary readings, the liturgical calendar, the biblical and historical prayers of the church (especially the Lord's Prayer), corporate confession of sin, and the assurance of pardon.

Includes: • Forms of Worship • Liturgical Worship • Informal Worship • Individual Worship • Church of England • Roman Catholic • Evangelical Worship • The Quakers • The Nature and Importance of Prayer Created with the WJEC / Eduqas RS GCSE in mind, though can be applied across specifications and qualifications.

Our hope is that Four Evangelists Orthodox Church will be a house of prayer for all people to meet, know, and worship our Savior Jesus Christ as he taught us, following the liturgical and spiritual practices as handed down through the Orthodox tradition.