Sentences with phrase «on liturgical»

Readings for Year A (Links for various lectionary weeks can be found by clicking on the liturgical week description.)

All of these may come to the same temple room together: the king who counts too heavily on his liturgical legitimacy, the Deuteronomist who knows better and debunks, the janitor who finds only Torah tablets and seeks to obey, the little old lady who has nowhere else to turn, and holds desperately to the place of the liturgy which she regards as the place of presence.

On liturgical issues, Cardinal Sarah is certainly never informed...»

Unfolding the Mystery, Monastic Conferences on the Liturgical Year by Dom Hugh Gilbert, OSB, Gracewing, xiv + 154 pp, # 9.99

Significant changes are also occurring on the liturgical left (Quakers, Pentecostals and, especially, the free - church tradition), but it is difficult to generalize about such disparate groups.

In a modest eighty - seven pages (followed by Appendices on liturgical colours, vestments, objects used in worship, and the use of Latin in the liturgy), Rev. Peter Stravinskas covers every detail of the Mass from the Entrance to the Concluding Rites with facts and explanations, often surprising, about the Scriptural origins and contemporary celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy.

In this earliest Christian teaching on liturgical participation, the word koinonia which St Paul uses can also be translated quite properly as «communion».

Not exact matches

Ross sees the low liturgies of many evangelical congregations as based on the idea that you can emphasize liturgical order or the regeneration brought about by the Holy Spirit, but not both.

She cites John's emphasis on personal faith, de-emphasis of high offices, and prioritization of Christology as ways in which this particular gospel has deeply influenced low - church liturgical practices.

I'd also like to remind readers that the issue of ad orientem posture isn't merely a minor matter of moment for fastidious liturgical nerds, as if the Mass were a mere matter of aesthetics cordoned off safely on Sundays.

The book includes sections on liturgy and time, on the significance of the church building, on direction in liturgical prayer, reservation of the Blessed Sacrament, music, and more.

This emphasis on beauty in the liturgical life of the Church is another reason Evangelical Catholicism takes sacramental preparation and adult catechesis so seriously.

In this engagement with Scripture, Evangelicals and Catholics are learning from one another: Catholics from the Evangelical emphasis on group Bible study and commitment to the majestic and final authority of the written word of God; and Evangelicals from the Catholic emphasis on Scripture in the liturgical and devotional life, informed by the lived experience of Christ's Church through the ages.

On most Catholic, Protestant, and Orthodox liturgical calendars, today marks the Feast of the Transfiguration.

Rekindling the Christic Imagination: Theological Meditations on the New Evangelization, by Robert P. Imbelli (Liturgical Press): For those who've watched (as every sentient Catholic should have watched) Father Robert Barron's Catholicism series, here's the next step — a theologically rich, entirely accessible walk through the great themes of Evangelical Catholicism, keyed to four masterpieces of Christian art.

On a busy Sunday the air is especially torn by discord, with different liturgical languages competing for the loudest as well as the last word.

The Haggadah contains numerous rabbinical liturgical inventions coupled with literary (midrashic) renderings of biblical verses, all focused on the story of the Israelite exodus from Egypt.

One such group has focused its attention on worship seeking the deepening of the church's life through liturgical renewal.

It is appropriate for a German to be profound on Church music, and, like many of us, he can not explain why the clear order of the Second Vatican Council on music has been turned on its head: «Gregorian chant should be given pride of place in liturgical services.»

One of the things I love about the liturgical life of the church is the way that the Holy Spirit, quietly and gently, works on us.

• We write this on Shrove Tuesday, with Ash Wednesday and Lent arriving tomorrow, and you will be reading this, those of you in liturgical churches, a few weeks into Lent.

The «liturgical circle» begins by observing and listening to what the church does and says when it gathers for worship as the primary witness to what Christians believe, moves on to theological reflection on the meaning of these data, and then proceeds to reform worship so as to express these meanings more effectively.

Liturgical scholarship, which tends to rely on nuanced timelines and obscure documents for its validity, remains on the purely notional level, whereas a true liturgical education seeks through deeds to reveal itLiturgical scholarship, which tends to rely on nuanced timelines and obscure documents for its validity, remains on the purely notional level, whereas a true liturgical education seeks through deeds to reveal itliturgical education seeks through deeds to reveal its mystery.

I plan to retire soon and the question that weighs on my mind is, Where do I go for spiritual and liturgical sustenance in the wasteland of the ELCA?

On the contrary, every effort should and must be made to support liturgical formation in ordinary parishes.

On liturgy, the reality is that the liturgical traditions from which the Ordinariate members come are varied.

And beyond moral indignation at liturgical substitutes for goodness, the scorn which some prophetic passages pour on animal sacrifices suggests intellectual contempt as well.

If only the CTS had published an authentic version on the lines of the Ignatius Bible and including the Liturgical Notes, this would have been a tremendous help to people like myself.

The liturgical prayers presently used in the Catholic wedding ceremony capture the Catholic doctrine on marriage:» Father, to reveal the plan of your love, you made the union of husband and wife an image of the covenant between you and your people.

Yet, even if we could count on the faithfulness, obedience and liturgical dignity of all priests, is liturgical activity enough on its own to win back the lost generations and re-form the minds and hearts of God's people?

Mardi Gras, when understood in its accidental liturgical context, has the potential to bring us to God, and it does when we think of it as a celebration that foreshadows our joy at the Resurrection on Easter Sunday, that joy that can say «Death where is thy sting?»

But as with the Old Testament Psalms and the New Testament Pauline letters, early church liturgical texts are improvisations on established patterns which are full of theological and pastoral significance.

Moreover, if the Constitution on the Liturgy emphasizes that we ought to «pray without ceasing», this can hardly apply only to liturgical prayer, especially in the case of the laity, who would not have sufficient time for this; and so it may be concluded that in our daily life private and liturgical prayer need certainly not compete with each other.

In our discussion we shall ask first what theological statements can be made on the subject of private prayer, examining afterwards if liturgical prayer (as distinct from the Eucharist and the administration of the sacraments with which we are not here concerned) can be preferred to it at all, and if so, what such a preference means for the practice of the Christian life.

A liturgical order of prayer exists because prayer as such exists, the former does not create the latter, but on the contrary presupposes it, in the same way as sacraments exist only because there is grace which precedes both ontologically and historically its social (though efficacious) expression in the sacraments.

Far from being an outmoded vestige of a naïve liturgical past, baptism is devastatingly contemporary — a revolutionary manifesto that subverts many of the values on which we have sold ourselves in the past few years.

Tack on what Bono calls U2»S tendency to be «painfully, insufferably earnest,» and a liturgical disaster was ready to unfold.

Far from being an outmoded vestige of a naive liturgical past, baptism is devastatingly contemporary — a revolutionary manifesto that subverts many of the values on which we have sold ourselves in the past few years.

We do not deny that liturgical and private prayer depend on one another, but because of the very nature of the Church it must be said that private prayer, especially if made in common, has a priority over official liturgical prayer whose ground and centre it remains.

In his reflections on theology and politics, Catholic theologian William T Cavanaugh has focused attention on how Christian liturgical practices embody and inform — or should embody and inform — Christian political witness, His book Torture and Eucharist: Theology, Politics and the Body of Christ (Blackwell) is about the Roman Catholic Church's responses to the rule of Augusto Pinochet in Chile during the 1970s.

On the basis of current information from 25 institutions, it appears that a simple liturgical framework (hymn, prayer, lessons, responsively read psalm, anthem, sermon, hymn, benediction), using traditional materials adapted as needed to suit the participation of Protestants, Catholics and Jews, is the most prevalent form.

You've suggested that Christians ought to draw on their own liturgical practices as they consider how to engage in politics.

Lest this observation be dismissed as just a superficial matter of techniques, let me immediately say that such ignorance applies most emphatically on the level of sacramental theology and liturgical theology in general.

Thus the absence from the dominant image of the ministry in Protestantism of the permanent truths in the medieval image helped later Protestant rationalism and intellectualism to become stiff - necked and rigid and even arrogant; pietism to become detached and legalistic and self - righteous; emotional and anti-intellectual groups to become aesthetically barren and theologically illiterate; and some liturgical - minded groups to conclude that the calluses on their knees entitled them to wear plugs in their ears.

It likewise implied, however, that faith in Jesus Christ must be on European terms, take them or leave them, and that the forms it took — organizational, ethical, doctrinal, liturgical — must be, with as much adaptation as necessary but as little adaptation as possible, the ones it had acquired in its European configuration.

It so happens that on December 25th, there falls the Christ's Mass which is the liturgical reading and rituals of the advent of his birth.

The new liturgical ideal, based on early Christian precedent, was the «gathered church,» a body of believers that comes together for fellowship and participatory worship.

In bestowing on this church a design award, critics noted that the «blending of Native American and Catholic tradition enhances and enriches the liturgical environment.

Does it not come close to liturgical arrogance to offer only fermented wine on a «take it or leave it» basis?

She sees as promising and gratifying the openness and participation of Pentecostals in dialogue with other Christian churches on a broad range of issues — from theological and liturgical matters to the question of women's participation in church and society.