Sentences with phrase «liturgical rite»

The Catholic Church has made space for a specifically Hebrew Catholicism, complete with its own bishop and liturgical rite, and there is talk of a seminary in the works.

Secondly, and with a significant leap, she thinks that from this we can understand the role of women within this sacrament, in order to find an official office for women that is recognised by all, with its own liturgical rite and duties described in Canon Law.

Daily meditation became essential; he saw that dogmatic theology needs never to be viewed in isolation from the moral and spiritual; radical Christian life and witness is the interpenetration of ex opere operato and ex opere operantis; effective expressions of faith and liturgical rites call for fervent inner spiritual life.

Latin liturgical rites, or Western liturgical rites, are the Catholic liturgical rites used within the Latin Church, that part of Catholic Church Latin language: Latin language, Indo - European language in the Italic group and ancestral to the modern Romance languages.

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«This rite of exorcism, beautiful and liturgical, had never before taken place in any part of the world.

These rites bring the whole liturgical enterprise for English sacral language into full communion with the Catholic Church.

Eastern rites huddle alongside liturgical practices (hardly a peripheral issue in the East) disfigured by rebarbative banality, by hymnody both insipid and heterodox, and by a style of worship that looks flippant if not blasphemous.

In my judgment, the evidence to date indicates that deaconesses belonged to a women's order analogous to the male diaconate, carried out a ministry to women (in the congregation or in a monastic community), were ordained in rites similar but not identical to those for men (e.g., the typology in the prayers is either feminine or masculine), and were prohibited from the liturgical ministry at the altar entrusted to deacons.

Thus, all roads lead to the hermeneutic of continuity and reform: the repeatedly reformed «Tridentine rite», in its final redaction, inspires the Council, which in turn inspires the Rite of 1970: the two rites are not opposed but organically related: as the Pope now says, they are simply different forms of the same liturgical realrite», in its final redaction, inspires the Council, which in turn inspires the Rite of 1970: the two rites are not opposed but organically related: as the Pope now says, they are simply different forms of the same liturgical realRite of 1970: the two rites are not opposed but organically related: as the Pope now says, they are simply different forms of the same liturgical reality.

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.

The liturgical scholarship of the past hundred years has uncovered some fascinating insights into the rites used in the early Church but these indications are often incidental to the principal concern of the Fathers, which was to affirm that the Eucharist was the perfect sacrifice prophesied by Malachi, to emphasise the awesome mystery of the sacred action, and to exhort the faithful to approach it with a clear conscience.

One final note from GIRM 397: «The Roman Rite constitutes a notable and precious part of the liturgical treasure and patrimony of the Catholic Church; its riches are conducive to the good of the universal Church, so that their loss would gravely harm her.»

Art. 5.1 In parishes, where there is a stable group of faithful who adhere to the earlier liturgical tradition, the pastor should willingly accept their requests to celebrate the Mass according to the rite of the Roman Missal published in 1962.

And as Dr Reid rightly indicates, the accusation that to allow unfettered use of the «old rite» will bring disunity (one of the modernist parrot cries reported by the Herald) is a nonsense: «No», he wrote, «whatever liturgical books are used, there will be substantial unity amid legitimatediversity, provided the rites are celebrated as the Church intends them to be celebrated.

Third - century liturgical evangelism consisted of seven steps — four stages and three rites of passage.

Through its stages of ever - deepening commitment, and its rites of passage that symbolically represent the conversion journey, liturgical evangelism brings the converting person into a supportive community.

While the liturgical gesture of imposing hands exclusively pertained to the bishop in the ancient Church's reconciliatory rites, it incarnated the Church's saintly members» collective intercession by means of which the penitent's sins are forgiven.

This is seen particularly in his humility in leading the liturgical assembly, in obedience to the rite, uniting himself to it in mind and heart, and avoiding anything that might give the impression of an inordinate emphasis on his own personality» (Sacramentum Caritatis n. 23).

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.

The liturgical changes of the 1960s were intended primarily to restore the sacramental rite to its true and full meaning for the whole church: participation as a community not in the performance of rituals or in the fulfillment of requirements but in the mystery of God's love.

The liturgical churches, with their drama of the church year and their abundance of symbolic rites and festivals, have a great deal to teach the symbol - poor Protestant groups who, in their zeal for pure religion have thrown out the baby with the bathwater.

This mystery of Mercy, which is the key to the interpretation of the Council, found its ultimate expression in the liturgical reform and the promulgation of a renewed rite of the Roman Mass by Paul VI in 1969.

To these three reasons I might now add that a fourth — that a reorientation of priest and people during of the Liturgy of the Eucharist would bring Latin - rite Catholic practice into harmony with the practice of the Eastern Catholic Churches and the Orthodox Churches — and a fifth: that this re-orientation would place the reformed liturgy of Vatican II in continuity with an ancient liturgical tradition of the Church.