Sentences with phrase «liturgy when»

should become part of our liturgy when we do baby dedications.»

We need Sunday morning liturgies when worshipers are in an audience mode typical of discipleship, and we need soma group liturgies for smaller gatherings where worshipers are in a participatory mode typical of the transition to life in the Spirit and of maturing in the church and in mission.

Not exact matches

That's when the service at Holy Trinity became not just a beautiful liturgy; it became a convicting experience.

In fact, if you listen carefully, you'll discover that congregational responses drop off when you invite a response in your terms, not the liturgy's.

When you go to a liturgy, such as Catholic mass, again, it is external... it is something done to / for you.

The great defender of traditional liturgy could also be its critic when he thought the fog of incense was merely hiding a vacancy at the altar.

Some see Mother's Day as at best an antiquated observance or at worst a patriarchal indulgence, evoking traditional ideals of motherhood and domesticity, when what the churches really need are new liturgies of gender equality and inclusion.

These are the days when ritual and liturgy shape my life but sometimes the rituals are breakfast preparation, bathing tinies, and getting dressed,...

These are the days when ritual and liturgy shape my life but sometimes the rituals are breakfast preparation, bathing tinies, and getting dressed, and the liturgy is in the retelling of «The Three Little Pigs» or the 30th time to say «in - our - family - we - use - our - words - to - love - each - other» to the tinies and the woman in the mirror.

He finds the idea of the priest's facing the people a most disedifying factor of the modern liturgy: «How wise the old liturgy was when it prescribed that the congregation should not see the priest's face - his distractedness or coldness or (even more importantly) his devotion and emotion.»

When the Israelites entered the promised land the Tabernacle, or Tent of Meeting, eventually became the Temple of God in Jerusalem, the centre of Jewish worship and liturgy.

When we first met in April 2011, what initially impressed me about Sviatoslav Shevchuk was his almost preternatural calm: which was striking, in that, less than a month before and still a few weeks shy of his 41st birthday, Shevchuk had been elected Major - Archbishop of Kyiv - Halych and head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church — the largest of the Eastern Catholic Churches, Byzantine in liturgy and governance while in full communion with the Bishop of Rome.

Further, what did, for instance, the late Dom Gregory Dix, in the last and most permanently valuable chapter of his Shape of the Liturgy, (Dacre Press [1945]-RRB- mean when he said that «we depend upon God for our very dependence»?

When we started, the congregation was accustomed to singing four vaguely apposite hymns slotted into the liturgy; in short, they were singing at Mass, rather than singing the Mass..

When preparing the Liturgy for a particular celebration, this is commonly the key question that is addressed.

When this article was written, James F.White was professor of liturgy in the department of theology at the University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana.

«Like all new liturgies, it takes a while for people to get used to it but I think when they do they find it profoundly moving.

For the triumph of the liturgy at Vatican II took place just when the question arose whether man was still capable of worship and liturgy, whether the «demythologization» of Christianity ought not to be accompanied by a «desacralization», and whether Christianity ought not to cease to be a religion at all.

They rejected the idea, concluding that liturgy currently used when someone decides to affirm their baptism could be adapted to mark a transgender person's change.

When did liturgies of contrition and dependence become examples of negative thinking?

In this respect John Paul II is most effective as a teacher through his symbolic acts and liturgies and least effective when he explicitly sets out to teach.

When Constantine - Cyril and Methodius came as Christian missionaries to the Slavs in the ninth century, they translated not only the Bible but the Eastern Orthodox liturgy into Slavonic.

When we step into the world of the liturgy, we are already in an arena of ethical and moral goodness transcending anything available in the human city.

By contrast, when Augustine had come to the English in 597, he had brought with him not only the message of the gospel and the authority of the See of Rome but the liturgy of the Latin mass, and he had made the acceptance of this a condition of conversion to faith in Christ.

When these offenses are committed then certain offerings must be made and the great liturgy recited:

And when our rituals are connected to matters of «ultimate concern,» as Smith puts it, they «constitute and function as liturgies.»

When they tested late medieval Catholicism by this Augustinian standard, they saw that the liturgy erected barriers between Christians and their risen Lord.

Even when said in the vernacular («Oh,» grieved my old Catholic neighbor, «if only the «liturgical experts» had merely forced us to switch to the English translation on the right - sided pages of our paperback Roman missals»), the Tridentine Mass, despite its shortcomings (even Archbishop Lefebvre admitted that it needed fine - tuning), conveyed the numinosity» an absolutely vital concept for those who turn to the Orient for their worship» that I was only able to find twenty frustrating years later in St. John Chrysostom's and St. Basil's Divine Liturgies.

I feel a warm glow and a sense of affirmation when I learn of churches which are eliminating sexist language from their worship services and liturgy, of ministers who are studying and preaching about feminist theology and the Mother - Father God, of consciousness - raising groups and task forces on sexism in the church.

Think of how immigrant congregations fought over changing the liturgy to English, or of the battles that took place when Irish clergy were sent to serve Polish parishes.

When she died, her husband and the pastor were both present, just as they were that morning at the funeral liturgy.

We like to think that there are no politics when it comes to liturgy but Cardinal Newman's image is not without point: «The rock of St. Peter on its summit enjoys a pure and serene atmosphere, but there is a great deal of Roman malaria at the foot of it.»

Part III: Bearing Fruit examines how this deepening awareness of the spiritual life bears fruit in prayer and, indeed, how necessary lectio and the liturgy are in order for us to remain rooted as Christians, especially in these days when free expression of faith is becoming less acceptable in the public forum.

This concern was repeated in the second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium (SC), when the Fathers urged that «steps should be taken so that the faithful may also be able to say or to sing together in Latin those parts of the Ordinary of the Mass which pertain to them» (SC 54).

Liturgy and laundry are the work of the people, according to Kathleen Norris, and now I can bear witness: the line between sacred work and secular work doesn't exist anymore when the Spirit lives and moves within us.

A sung - and - chanted liturgy begins when a robed priest and altar boys process, accompanied by organ.

These are the days when ritual and liturgy shape my life but sometimes those rituals are breakfast preparation, bathing tinies, and getting dressed, and the liturgy is in the retelling of «The Three Little Pigs» or the 30th time to say «in - our - family - we - use - our - words - to - love - each - other» to the tinies and to the woman in the mirror.

How many times, in reading the liturgy for the Holy Communion, I have felt both exultation and despair at the moment of the Sanctus: «Therefore with Angels and Archangels, and with all the company of heaven, we laud and magnify Thy glorious Name; evermore praising Thee, and saying: Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Saboath...» Exalted because, in this language, this place and time and company of momentary lives are interpreted and blessed within the scope of an eternal action of God, released from the tyranny of death and what Dylan Thomas has so movingly alluded to when he laments that

When the pastor came over, we just did a liturgy from the hymn book, the Apostle's creed, the Lord's prayer.

When the Mass ended, they took out their copies of the Liturgy of the....

For several years prior to 1978, when it was published, a host of LCA congregations had the opportunity to try out parts of the new liturgy.

People have gotten very upset when I mention how wonderful my parish and bishop were, and how I still value liturgy and ritual.

On the other hand there is a terrible tendency to «personalise» our liturgy - when it isn't ours at all.

When I couldn't find my way through the clutter of praise and worship, I found Jesus in the silence and in the liturgy.

When I was consumed with my own life, blinders on, the liturgy reoriented me to the real story — to redemption, justice, and confession and to worship and community.

There will always be times when we would prefer other modes of expression but we need to bear in mind that the liturgy is a duty laid on us by the Church, and not some individual devotion; we owe it to the Church to carry it out as obediently as we can, and put our own preferences to one side, as Newman did.

I was kidding, but he liked the idea, so when he came home from work he maintained a cheerful silence (communicating via sign language that he wanted a glass of wine, whereupon his silence grew even more cheerful) and spent some time sketching out a little liturgy involving the reading of the Gospel story, the handing - over of a baby doll, the writing of a note, and the loosing of his tongue to proclaim the Benedictus.

Perhaps such self - contained, excessively reassuring liturgy is more compelling when one has more of this world's goods.

So when the Church proclaims this same Word of God in the Catholic liturgy, God, through those words, is speaking to every Christian believer.

It is difficult to cultivate an awareness and appreciation of ambiguity and mystery in worship when images are projected at strategically timed moments in the liturgy for the purpose of instructing worshipers what to think and feel.