Sentences with phrase «new liturgy»

That is why the new liturgy of baptism in the Roman Catholic rite insists upon the presence of a representative group of the community.

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.

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.

Mothers» Union president Lynne Tembey looks at the tradition behind Mothering Sunday and shares the story behind new liturgy she was instrumental... More

The new liturgy was encouraging people to come to terms with their world in the strength of the gospel.

Mars Hill Bible Church has a helpful guide here, and A New Liturgy just released a series of songs, prayers, and Scripture around the examen.

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.

«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.

... if one looks at the new liturgies and celebrations, one can see that they are primarily cultural experiences expressed in religious language.

Not exact matches

The monastery's publishing program has had more success, with more than a hundred new titles each year, covering all areas of church life: Christian spirituality, church history, Scripture, church music and arts, Orthodox ascetic practices, monasticism, liturgy and church prayer, and the lives of the saints.

The rythms of the liturgy fall upon my deaf ears and crash against my stony heart year after year, until His word is beaten into the fiber of my being, and piece by piece, tiny chip by tiny chip, the Old Man in me dies, and a new man is raised to life in His likeness.

In the Catholic liturgy, we remember «Felicity, Perpetua, Agatha, Lucy, etc.» The first two of these were third century women, who, after refusing to renounce their Christian conversions, endured being sent into an arena to be trampled by wild bulls and then having their throats slit by the Romans, as recounted in Bill Bennett's well researched new book Trial by Fire.

In a major public lecture, Donald Trautman declared that «as a text for public proclamation, in many instances it borders on failure... As it stands, the New Missal is not pastorally sensitive to our people... Our liturgy needs not a «sacred language» but a pastoral language».

In Lutheranism the retention of the ancient liturgy, sacramentalism, iconography, and much of the music and ceremony of the medieval church made - and makes - it apparent that the Lutheran Reformation did not start a new church but continued the ancient teaching and life of the catholic community.

E. A. Livingstone (Oxford University Press, 1977); A New Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship, ed.

In some liturgies the whole congregation places itself at the disposal of those being baptized, confirmed, married and ordained by taking vows to support these persons in their new life and ministry.

They search for new forms of community but tend to be wary of authority figures and particularly of leaders... The young neotraditionalists also have an almost intuitive attraction to liturgy, ritual, and symbol as forms of knowledge that complement the dominant rational, scientific one.»

We can discover a reversal of the kenotic movement of the Word in the very insistence of the religious Christian that faith has for once and for all been given, that it is fully and finally present in the Scriptures, the liturgies, the creeds, and the dogmas of the past, and can in no sense undergo a development or transformation that moves beyond its original expression to new and more universal forms.

The Catholic Church introduces a new translation of the Roman Missal throughout the English — speaking world, making the first significant change to a liturgy since 1973.

The Arab laity complained that their churches were allowed to deteriorate and that no new ones were built; that the Greeks ordained illiterate Arab priests, forbade them to preach, and limited their duties to the performance of the Sunday liturgy; and that the Greeks encouraged Arab deacons to marry prior to ordination, so as to render them ineligible for promotion to bishop or appointment to the celibate Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre, which governs the Patriarchate.

Liturgies can be revised so as to name the behaviors that abuse, damage and oppress people while inviting the community into new ways of relating to God, neighbors and self.

The liturgy is the unification of the New Jerusalem and the human city, so that in the process everything human is redeemed.

Everything in the life and liturgy of the Church has its meaning in this new kind of community.

The current wave of dystopian young adult fiction, for example, serves the same kind of public liturgical function for progressive individualism as the New Year liturgy of Marduk's victory over Tiamat once did for a strong Babylonian kingship.

On those terms the magazine attacked John D. Rockefeller, Jr., for a New York speech in which he suggested that the church drop creeds, liturgies and devotion for the sake of «unselfish good works» (April 25, 1945).

The debate over whether liturgy or catechesis is most important for saving the faith of the young has taken a new turn in the recent revival of the Liturgical movement.

• Back in 1974, the Murphy Center was looking for a name for a new publication dealing with liturgy.

Yes, we can participate in Marian liturgy that reflects her crucial role in scripture, that protects christological confession, and that directs our attention to Christ in new ways.

Thanks to them, the world is lifted up towards God... In this year consecrated to the Eucharist, reviving the figure of Dom Guéranger is an invitation for all the faithful to rediscover the roots of the liturgy and to give a new breath to their journey of prayer, taking care to place themselves always in the great tradition of the Church, in respect of the sacred character of the liturgy and of the norms which mark its depth and quality.

For example, writing of Rosmini's book The Five Wounds of the Church, in which Rosmini describes the obstacles an exclusively Latin liturgy can pose for effective evangelisation, Fr Hill not only proposes his hero as an early proponent of the vernacular Mass, but goes on to add (in a rather sly footnote) that Rosmini would also have been opposed to «the deliberate use of archaic language» of which «the new vernacular translations of the Mass are an example».

In our new English translation of the Mass we hear «paschal» again and again in our prayers in conformity with what the reformed liturgy intends — a striking new tone, enormously rich teaching.

For the minority who take an active interest in the Liturgy, read Catholic articles and follow news within the Church, I suspect that the people who are delighted by the new ICEL will far outnumber those who are opposed to it.

These «Old Lutherans,» as they were called, refused to use the new orders of service — which were all Reformed in theology — and continued using historic Lutheran liturgies.

Her slim book «The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy, and Womens» Work» and New York Times Bestseller «Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life» saved my life a time or two.

(To subscribe to the new journal, write Liturgy Training Publications, 1800 North Hermitage Ave., Chicago IL 60622.

All the «agents» in the Mass suffered some degree of amnesia — the liturgy restored to everyone involved a «new» / old identity.

I have a problem with churches owning so much money, property and buildings; I question liturgy and orders of worship; I struggle with the one - man monologue sermon model; I have always wrestled with «full - time paid ministry» pastor positions; I disregard Sunday dress; I don't like the control of worship music by a select and talented few; I don't believe in tithing; I question the sacraments, formal Christian education, and our whole approach to the New Testament.

Gwen Kennedy Neville describes forms of «religious familism» and its tension with congregational character in John H. Westerhoff and Gwen Kennedy Neville, Generation to Generation, and again in their Learning Through Liturgy (New York: Seabury Press, 1978).

For some the «hyper literalism» of the new translation, with its unfamiliar words and complex sentence structures, put an end to a brave experiment in inculturation which, it is claimed, had been envisioned and inaugurated by Sacrosanctum Concilium and which had shaped much of the Church's liturgy in the years after the Council.

Among the many manifestations of this new age, this as yet imperfectly present Eschaton, is the church's liturgy, aptly characterized by the Second Vatican Council as offering a foretaste of the liturgy of heaven.

«I wonder», he continued, «how the new bishop will get on with Paul Inwood, Portsmouth's venerable but groovy «director of liturgy».

The chapter headings give us an overview of the work: Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ: the theological project of Joseph Ratzinger; The critique of criticism: beginning the search for a new theological synthesis; The hermeneutic of faith: critical and historical foundations for a biblical theology; The spiritual science of theology: its mission and method in the life of the church; Reading God's testament to humankind: biblical realism, typology, and the inner unity of revelation; The theology of the divine economy: covenant, kingdom, and the history of salvation; The embrace of salvation: mystagogy and the transformation ofsacrifice; The cosmic liturgy: the Eucharistic kingdom and the world as temple; The authority of mystery: the beauty and necessity of the theologian's task.

If you're looking to add something new to your prayer schedule, I recommend A Book of Hours by Thomas Merton or Common Prayer: A Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals by Shane Claiborne, Jonathan Wilson - Hartgrove, and Enuma Okoro.

Liturgy is not simply «showing and telling» the ideological content of theology; it is a «doing» of new things in relation to old ones.

For examples of this approach to liturgy and catechesis, see chapter 1, John H. Westerhoff III and William H. Willimon, Liturgy and Learning Through the Life Cycle (New York: Seabury Press,liturgy and catechesis, see chapter 1, John H. Westerhoff III and William H. Willimon, Liturgy and Learning Through the Life Cycle (New York: Seabury Press,Liturgy and Learning Through the Life Cycle (New York: Seabury Press, 1980).

The liturgy of Word and Sacrament is a form through which the Spirit can breath new life into the people of God.

The implications of this for church practice include a new sense of the participatory style of liturgy, an emphasis upon the freshness of statement, the continual working out of the expressive forms of church understanding, and the rejection of all forms of performer and spectator mentalities.

Our experience of finding «new wineskins» during times of media revolutions gives us reason to hope that we will develop liturgies which incorporate orality, print, and electronic media.

The «new» trend in the celebration of the Sacred Liturgy is unmistakably towards what is becoming more clearly one of the hallmarks of Pope Benedict's pontificate: the authentic implementation of the liturgical reform according to the mind of the Second Vatican Council.

I place absolutely first the need for rigorous adult formation, Bible study, attention to prayer and liturgy, and the development of Christian community as uncompromising as that of the New Testament church.