Sentences with phrase «love liturgy»

Furthermore, I grew to love the liturgy.

One Sunday I invited a good friend to join us saying that I simply loved the liturgy.

Not exact matches

Daniel, their «worship leader,» explained to me after the service that he had been a typically rock «n» roll worship guy but had fallen in love with liturgy because it was something much larger than himself.

He loves the sights and smells and sounds of the liturgy of the Holy Mass..

That story has captivated our hearts and helped our communities fall in love with liturgy.

This nondenominational charismatic kid embraced liturgy and hymns, monastics and mystics (charismatics find it a bit easier to love those ancient mystics, let's be honest).

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.

Our relationship has been a bit strained ever since, so whenever we get together to catch up, I make an extra effort to talk about church, drop some Christianese into the conversation, and mention my newfound love for liturgy.

Unlike many of them at that time, he loved a good liturgy (including praying the Divine Office with others, especially evening prayer sung before dinner).

It resonates with a sense of the spiritulal in its discussion of liturgy, ritual, spiritual stages, repentance and deification combined with a love of icons and art including mosaic, architecture and sculpture.

The Richard I knew and loved was a man of prayer and of liturgy.

The Anglican community (of which the Episcopal Church is a member) retains the same beautiful liturgy with which I grew up loving.

Then family imagery used to express God's love in liturgy can have positive life - giving connotations.

I happen not to have done, and one of the reasons for that is a love of the classic liturgy and its music.

There are plenty of instances, in the traditional liturgies, of emphasis on the sheer love of God, His being affected by human attitudes and responses, and the tender relationship which He intends between Him and His children.

Let not the soul that is possessed with a love of prayer be afraid that her thirst can not be quenched by these rich streams of the liturgy, which now flow calmly as a streamlet, now roll with the loud impetuosity of a torrent, and now swell with the mighty heavings of the sea.

Since then, I've tried a few different resources, learned from people much wiser than I am and generally tried to figure out this hybrid thing I have going on — happy - clappy - Jesus - kid anti-establishment woman that loves contemplative practices and liturgy and the Church.

It is a necessary part of being where he is; it is a dimension of «liturgy,» staying before the presence of God and the presence of God's creation (human and nonhuman) in prayer and love.

It is closer to liturgy, as the pages flash, and praise is almost demanded of the viewer, who sees long - loved words shining anew.

Finally, do our liturgy and teaching express vividly this reality of God as Love - in - action and ourselves as God's agents in active loving?

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.

The hymns, doctrine, discipline and liturgy of that tradition gave me faith and taught me to love God.

The damage this can do to the Church, her liturgy, her teaching, and above all to the yearning for holiness — which always requires renunciation of the goods of this world for love of the Good who infinitely transcends this world — is beyond calculation.

That which is permanent in the church is not its structure, its doctrinal confessions and its liturgies, but its faith, and the hope and love associated with it.

No matter how deeply I loved the church, both its creeds and liturgies made assumptions I could no longer make.

We attend church service / liturgy / mass not based on feelings but on the knowledge that this is an expression of our love for God and his community.

However, the African has always had a deep love of the liturgy, especially as experienced in the Benedictine houses to which he felt drawn.

Thus, the new liturgy attempts to create a new kind of religious experience, that of a community of Jesus» followers living and loving together in his name.

In its breadth and depth this meditation on love measures up to the universal intercessory prayer which is firmly rooted in Christian liturgies as well as in the individual prayer of the great Christian saints.

Carolus had no idea how fragile the whole great construction of «Christendom» was in many of its parts, and that only something like the bedrock of the Myth to end all myths remained invulnerable — trust in God through Jesus, prayer, love of neighbour, symbolised in public liturgy.

Requests kept coming to him for new forms, and gradually he started jotting things down, using his own knowledge and love of music to make a German liturgy which was truly German and not just a wooden transposition from the Latin.

The liturgy as seen is what (in principle) stirs up in us that sorrow for sin and love for Jesus which fits us for a worthy communion.

There's a lot I love about the Catholic tradition — the connection to history, the liturgy and ritual, the time for contemplation, the sense that the «great cloud of witnesses» that surrounds us is very much alive and active and a part of our lives.

We grew together through a love of Jesus, poetry, liturgy, and wildness.

You better believe my liturgy - loving heart beats happily to the rhythm of her insights.

And Benedict XVI made overtures to the Eastern Orthodox — something that his intellectualism and love of liturgy made him especially well placed to do.