Sentences with phrase «liturgical year»

The term "liturgical year" refers to the annual cycle of religious celebrations and rituals followed by certain Christian traditions. It includes important festivals, such as Christmas and Easter, and spans from Advent (the period before Christmas) to the end of the church year, which is celebrated as the Feast of Christ the King. It helps Christians remember and commemorate the life and teachings of Jesus. Full definition
For those Christians who live their lives within the rhythm of the liturgical year, and for those preachers who are disciplined by the common lectionary, this is the only day of the year that calls us to ponder a teaching of the church rather than a teaching of Jesus.
John Eliot Gardiner has recorded all of Bach's cantatas for the liturgical year in a series of splendid albums on the Soli Deo Gloria label.
For millions, the liturgical year has become a major vehicle for living with Christ.
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.
Unable to open the gift of time with our own resources, unable to help ourselves, we enter the story and time of God by the Christian practice of living through the liturgical year, «a means of participation in the life of God.»
Many of the most important evolutions in this process were nurtured by the rhythms of the liturgical year.
She loves the rhythm and complex framework of the liturgical year.
In the A cycle, which we are using this liturgical year, the Old Testament reading is from one of the Servant Songs in Isaiah, establishing the link between the baptism of Jesus and the mission of the Servant of the Lord: «Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him, he will bring forth justice to the nations...»
The assumption at the beginning of each liturgical year is that this is going to be difficult — that we are half asleep, our ears dulled, and the voice of One who loves us is too radiantly bright to be picked up on our defensive antennae.
in what is known as the «liturgical year
Unfolding the Mystery, Monastic Conferences on the Liturgical Year by Dom Hugh Gilbert, OSB, Gracewing, xiv + 154 pp, # 9.99
Later in this document the Council Fathers will call for a revision of the liturgical year with a clear centre in the paschal mystery as exposed during Lent and Paschaltide.
There were several people's chants featured here and there - probably more than most parishes hear in the course of one liturgical year, sad to say.
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.
One of the significant ecumenical developments in Protestant worship during the last fifteen years has been a growing appreciation for the liturgical year.
Properly arranged chant and polyphony commemorate the whole history of salvation over the course of the liturgical year, culminating profoundly in Holy Week and Easter.
There are all kinds of people out there doing creative foody things in observance of the liturgical year, as sites like Catholic Cuisine attest (take one look at my rosary cake, and you'll understand why we didn't attempt that Sacred Heart Cake last Friday).
Singing Through the Liturgical Year February 19 The Rev. Peter M. J. Stravinskas, Ph.D., S.T.D., will guide us through some of the most popular Lenten hymns in Latin and English, analyzing their theological content and seeking to apply those insights to our Christian life in union with the Church's feasts and fasts.
Designed to pair with Catholic Mosaic: Living the Liturgical Year With Literature, Fenestrae Fidei nevertheless stands perfectly well on its own.
Life has its own calendar, and it doesn't always correspond with our Pinterest boards, the liturgical year, or the calendars of our family and friends.
Some may long for a liturgical year in which there is no Ordinary Time at all — as in the past, when Christmastide was followed by Epiphanytide and the whole year was oriented around feast and fasts.
So far, I've really enjoyed the rhythm and poetry of the liturgical year — the expectant tension of Advent, the celebration of Epiphany.
Dom Prosper Guéranger: The Liturgical Year.
About Blog Catholic Cuisine was founded by Jessica, in 2008, after noticing the need for an online source for finding and sharing «Recipes for Celebrating the Feasts and Seasons of the Liturgical Year
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