Sentences with phrase «modern liturgies»

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.»

Secondly, so much of modern liturgy has been «feminised» and the introduction of female altar servers has sometimes had the effect of putting off boys from service at the altar.

There wasn't the slightest hint of the Wogan - style chattiness that is the bane of modern liturgy.

Much of their time is spent denouncing modern liturgy, and they ought to be among this Bishop's supporters.

He has spoken helpfully about developing the philosophy of science and applying a hermeneutic of continuity to modern liturgy and to modern scriptural exegesis (see Fr Holden's article in this issue).

Not exact matches

Just because the old rituals and liturgy avoid the modern BS of «spin,» don't automatically assume that they are spiritually «genuine» or «authentic.»

The Book of Psalms seems to have been the hymn - book of the Temple liturgy — a book, quite literally, of «hymns ancient and modern», since it contains poems of the period of the monarchy (possibly, as some believe, as old as David), and others composed as late as the third century or even (as some suppose) the second century B.C.

And there's no doubt that «the Paschal Mystery» is a phrase which is very popular in modern accounts of the Mass, or indeed of the liturgy in general.

Conversation of Faith and Reason: Modern Catholic Thought from Hermes to Benedict XVI by Aidan Nichols, O.P. Liturgy Training Publications, 222 pages, $ 23

In its sheer violence, Jesus» death resembles the liturgies of violence endlessly repeated in the modern media, but points in the opposite direction.

Vatican II's legitimate impulse to make the Church and its liturgy more modern and accessible was implemented mostly by clergy with no training in the arts.

Money - theism has its own concept of the divine, priesthood, rites, liturgies, missionaries, theologians, modern churches and cathedrals.

In Moscow, Father Georgi Kochetkov was removed from his parish for attempting to introduce a translation of the Slavonic liturgy into modern Russian.

Christian transcendence is a myth; church structures therefore must go; the liturgy, God and belief, and all symbols of transcendence are out of place in the modern secular world.

For them the Tridentine liturgy has become a totem of this wider rejection of the modern Church.

Over-reliance on lavish liturgy or spectacle (common both to liturgical churches and modern evangelistic campaigns) constitutes a radical distortion of the Christian message.

The sterile liturgies that often resulted from this attitude seem to support the opinion of most modern psychologists that man can not be so arbitrarily divided.

Before Vatican II, liturgy was out of touch with modern experience; now, however, the pendulum has perhaps swung too far in the opposite direction, reducing the liturgy to a product of such experience.

We can learn perhaps from a more rigid piety that our efforts to make doctrine and liturgy relevant to modern experience ought not to dilute the forms of God's liturgical presence to what is easiest for human experience to accept and integrate.

But whereas most seeker churches work with the models of the shopping mall and the television audience in designing their space and worship service, Fabian likens worship at St. Gregory's to a rock concert, which he calls the modern secular experience that most closely resembles the divine liturgy.

It is possible that a more modern translation may provide more adequate instruction while failing to achieve the goal desired in devotional contemplation or liturgy.

And so when one reads the actual documents that the Council produced, especially the four Constitutions on liturgy, revelation, the Church, and the Church in the modern world, which Pope Benedict recently called «the four cardinal points of our guiding compass,» one finds all sorts of beauty, goodness, and truth, authority, nobility, gravity, and unity.

The Catholic Church is the real deal — the oldest Church, the original social workers, the molder of liturgy, tradition, and our modern day religious celebrations.