Sentences with phrase «liturgical tradition of the church»

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.

Not exact matches

Attempts to compare evangelical liturgical practices to those of more high church traditions are often doomed from the start because of the fundamentally different assumptions that undergird both.

As a result, evangelical liturgical practices tend to be far more fluid than the practices of more high church traditions, as the practices flow from a belief that spiritual regeneration precedes liturgical practice — and regeneration can not be reduced down to easily identified physical characteristics.

Evangelical Catholicism seeks to incorporate within the Novus Ordo the richness of the Church's ancient liturgical traditions.

Both the liturgical and theological traditions of the Church present to us certain things that must be said about God as revealed in Christ Jesus.

If that negation of human works (and by implication of all human structure and conduct) is what Christianity is, then morality, tradition, authority, the Church, sanctification, discipleship, liturgical order, and even dogma are secondary at best.

I wandered through other church traditions, traditional, contemporary, liturgical, meditative, mystic, seeker - sensitive, emerging, ancient - future, denominational, mega-church, old church, new church, basement church, no church for a while there: you name it, I found my way there and I found the people of God in each place, I did.

Since the book demonstrates so powerfully the case for the return to the pre-Conciliar liturgy, Fr Joseph Fessio, S.J., Editor - in - Chief, Ignatius Press has to temper his own enthusiastic Forward by putting the position of «those who advocate a rereading and restructuring of the liturgical renewal intended by the Second Vatican Council, but in light of the Church's two - thousand - year tradition.»

My present concern is the liturgical center: the Reformed churches, Presbyterians, United Methodists, United Church of Canada and portions of the free - church tradition (United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]Church of Canada and portions of the free - church tradition (United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]church tradition (United Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]Church of Christ and Christian Church [Disciples of Christ]Church [Disciples of Christ]-RRB-.

As we attempt to reconnect with our own history, which is after all a sacred history as far as the Divine Liturgy is concerned, the value of the Church's liturgical traditions are once again being emphasised not just as expressions of sacredness and beauty in the public work of God, but as the embodiment and carriers of the Church's faith.

No theologian working inside the traditions of western Christianity was more sensitive to the rhythms of the Church's liturgical year than was John Henry Newman.

We may begin, for example, with a certain tradition within the Church of England, in which the minister or priest performed his liturgical, homiletical, and pastoral duties, and perhaps even did spots of reading about them, but in which his serious continuing intellectual work along some particular line might have little or nothing to do with theology.

In bestowing on this church a design award, critics noted that the «blending of Native American and Catholic tradition enhances and enriches the liturgical environment.

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.

«to maintain the liturgical, spiritual and pastoral traditions of the Anglican Communion within the Catholic Church, as a precious gift nourishing the faith of the members of the Ordinariate and as a treasure to be shared» (Anglicanorum Coetibus)

In order to make concrete that preaching situation let us assume further that I am a preacher in a church which owns and honors the liturgical tradition, and as a major obedience to that tradition does not deliver over to me — for exploitation according to my ambulatory penchants or enthusiasms — a merely religious occasion, but has from of old designated this Sunday as the second Sunday in Advent.

The two prevailing types of cultus in Christian churches are liturgical and sermon - centered, corresponding roughly to the Catholic and Protestant traditions though with no clear demarcation between them.

And it should be liturgical preaching in line with the creedal traditions of the church.

Favorably quoting a theologian who refers to the Pope as a «liturgical pluralist,» Rocca goes on to say that Benedict is «leading his church forward in the spirit of its oldest traditions.»

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.»»

I do not like this pope... to modern the church lost a lots of people after Vatican ii... he's the leader of the church but I don't think he understands how the church worked in the last 2000 years... that's why we need a European pope again they understand how dress when they read mess he's to plain... people want to see a pope in the old liturgical clothing the old Latin mass was great with the great pomp... the church can modernize but just don't give up the old I think traditions I think pope benedict understood that... he came from Bavaria where they still celebrating mass in the old baroque style he's the pope not just a simple priest... the queen of England understands that people want to see pomp pretty soon he will wear street cloth..

But whether one prefers the Old or the New Mass, Father Langlois, as a church historian, made it a point to underscore that «liturgical reform — including major liturgical reform — has always been part of Catholic tradition.

It is Orthodox in the sense of believing that the liturgical tradition of the Eastern Church belongs to all Christianity.

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.