Sentences with phrase «many prayer books»

The professor, who teaches at Sweden's Lund University, went straight to the authorities when he became suspicious about the provenance of a 16th - century prayer book he had purchased online.

Their presence is most obvious in the Reform branch of modern Judaism, which altered the traditional prayer book to soften or even erase the affirmation that God will raise the body from the dead at the end of time.

A popular Christian devotional item in the Middle Ages, this particular prayer book belonged to Francois I of France.

Dormition Abbey has been vandalised before in 2012 and 2013, and in 2014 a demonstrator set fire to one of the abbey's prayer books after Pope Francis celebrated a Mass there.

The British government's blocked the export of a golden jewel - encrusted prayer book which once belonged to a king of France in the hope a museum can raise enough money to buy it.

last time I checked flying planes into buildings and killing innocent civilans was not covered in any prayer book.

Alan Titchmarsh recommends listening to «magical language» of traditional Anglican prayer book

For many the use of the set services of the Christian Church, as found in the traditional prayer books, can be of great value.

The Prymer: The Prayer Book of the Medieval Era Adapted for Contemporary Use Translated and adapted by Robert E. Webber Paraclete, 172 pp., also in paperback.

Speaking to The Prayer Book Society (PBS), he listed some of his favourites words used during a Baptism service.

«The state of matrimony», as the Prayer Book puts it, has been «consecrated to such an excellent mystery that in it is signified and represented the spiritual marriage and unity betwixt Christ and his Church.»

«Similarly, there is more to the Prayer Book than the words on the page.

TV gardening expert Alan Titchmarsh has opened up about his love of the language used in the traditional Anglican prayer book.

That means people who have used the manuals from June 2000 until January 2001 are without a prayer book for Lent, Easter and springtime.

Hymn and prayer book of the second temple it may have been, but obviously some of the psalms could never have been sung in connection with the sacrifices, and may well be grouped, as Professor Julius Bewer suggests, under the caption, «Private Worship outside of the Temple.»

From carefully chosen prayer books and collecting flowers to put in front of statues, to trips to Aylesford Priory and quiet early morning Masses on holiday, the love of God was woven into the fabric of their everyday lives.

If one is sensitive to tone, reading many of the hip prayer books of the past ten years is disturbing.

No mere repetition of words, whether «Now I lay me down to sleep» or the Lord's Prayer or the great collects of the Prayer Book, can properly be so regarded.

It may seem obvious to her that, in British Christianity, the abandonment of a belief in a personal God would be of little significance, while the loss of the Authorized Version of the Bible and Cranmer's Prayer Book marks a religious disaster of the first magnitude; or that if «our minds are... full of readily available religious imagery... there is no need to expel [it] simply because... we do not believe in God.»

Cf. Bonhoeffer, Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible, trans.

Old Testament scholar Denise Dombokowski Hopkins discusses the prayer book of Israel in «Journey Through the Psalms.»

Making Christianity African went no further than amending western Prayer Books and Canon Laws, replacing prayers for the Queen with those for the President.

There should be some clear Christian symbol, such as a Bible or a cross or a prayer book, in the proper place.

The Episcopalians have used the so - odd - volume Prayer Book Studies series as a means of informing clergy and laypeople as to the reasons for changes and of instructing them on how to make the most effective use of the revised liturgies.

He fears that one committee, left to itself, might vote against God; another against the prayer book; and the third against the Republican party.

(The prayer book was last revised in 1928).

But the words, and the moral categories they represent, bequeathed to us by our ancestors through Bible, prayer book, and hymn are like most earthly things: they won't last long without attentive care.

Repeatedly he argued that the introduction of women priests, the new prayer book and other changes in the Episcopal Church had taken it out of the mainstream of Episcopalianism; that in fact the schismatic group, by separating itself from all that «error,» is the faithful remnant.

Male spirituality is often characterized as more comfortable with a hammer on the church roof than a prayer book in the pews.

The English Prayer Book perpetuated this rendering, which is still used in many churches.

Some prayers in the Jewish Prayer Book begin, «Our Father, our King.»

Fortunately the Episcopalians have no monopoly on the Prayer Book!

Nowhere does it discuss the mysterious but willful destruction of the mighty poetic force of the Bible and Prayer Book, which has turned the thunder and trumpets of Anglican worship into a series of squeaks and squawks, accompanied by tambourines and guitars.

It was Laud's intention to enforce the use of the English Prayer Book and to strengthen the rule of the bishops over the local clergy.

Some older people were offended by the latest effort at revision of the Book of Common Prayer, feeling that because they would not live to use the new prayer book, their opinions were likely to be discounted.

This question of identity can be important According to the 1928 Church of England Prayer Book, the service of Burial was not to be used for the unbaptized.

We are freed from «faithless fears and worldly anxieties», to use a fine phrase from the American Prayer Book, and know that «our chief end» is there, in God and nowhere else.

I figured this was very good example of Life Together Prayer book of the Bible.

This man and this woman had once stood before the altar and, in the words of the prayer book, pledged their troth each to the other, til «death us do part.»

It's a daily prayer book and each day of the week it has a prayer.

He freely acknowledges that the traditional Anglican formularies of the Book of Common Prayer of 1662 (and to a greater and lesser extent the Prayer books of 1549, 1552, and 1559) seem patient of either a more Catholic interpretation or a more Protestant interpretation.

The fact that in the Prayer Book there are such services as Morning and Evening Prayer, the Litany, the Penitential Office, and others, demonstrates that there are other ways.

I believe it from cover to cover, and the Bible too... I don't reject one supernaturalistic representation of the Bible,... of the creed, of the Prayer Book.

'' I believe the whole thing... I will venture to say there isn't one Bishop here that believes any more than I do and that takes more delight in the worship from that Prayer Book than I do.

Fergus Butler - Gallie, an ordinand training at Westcott House, was asked to research and draft the list after Tim Stanley, the press officer for the Prayer Book Society came up with the idea.

When asked how the glossary will help he said: «People will sometimes have particular words they struggle with but on the whole this will be a helpful school in parishes and sometimes with clergy as well but it's part of the wider training to enable people to use this liturgical tool and explore the riches of the prayer book going forward.»

Whatever fault we may find with that document in other respects — and Anglicans may be grateful that it is no longer commonly said, as ancient prayer books required, at public worship on certain great festivals of the Christian year — it gives us the right understanding of this triunitarian conception of God when it affirms «This is the Catholic faith: that we worship Godhead in Trinity, and Trinity in Unity.»

I was raised in the 50's and 60's, Catholic and Jesus was white in all our prayer books, in our schools and in our thoughts.if someone wants to think he was black go for it, I will not change for anyone, so to each his own

Officially, Episcopalians and Lutherans have moved into the post-Vatican II era — although many Episcopal congregations still cling to the 1928 prayer book (largely confined to 16th century form), and the Lutheran Book of Worship has alternatives for those who want to be reassured that nothing has changed since the time of Luther.

«many prayer books are awful,» she wrote in 1956, if you stick with the liturgy, you are safe» (p. 160).