Sentences with phrase «on 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.

A reflection on the Liturgy of the Easter Vigil enables us to see this more clearly.

The fear among theologians is that there maybe some wholesale assault planned on the liturgy itself which has so far resisted criticism by raising the spectre of Tridentinism.

But Father X doesn't limit his rhetorical and stylistic assaults on the liturgy to» Fifties TV re-runs.

Vatican II says very clearly that it is far superior to them, but in the same paragraph it adds that they «are in some way derived from it, and lead people to it» (Constitution on the Liturgy n. 13).

did not reject the necessity of working on the liturgy and removing it, but he did say, «Only he who cries out for the Jews dare permit himself to sing in Gregorian.»

After the three - hour liturgy (for royal pageants tend to last that long), they had a luncheon in Jerusalem and then a panel discussion reflection on the liturgy — what it meant, what we learned from it, how we ought to think about it.

Gregory's influence on liturgy and music matched his influence on theology and ministry.

This self - dedication is beautifully expressed in a hymn based on the Liturgy of Malabar in South India:

If there is one area where Pope Benedict's «holy freedom» can be found, it is in his teachings on the liturgy, and his commitment to its renewal.

His reflection on the liturgy as the action of Christ the Word made flesh provides a path between the Scylla of the clown Mass and the Charybdis of the operatic performance.

Well, we may be fairly sure that the message on the liturgy in Portsmouth diocese will now be very different.

He has worked as a consultant to the US Conference of Bishops» Committee on the Liturgy and for the Congregation for Divine...

It was the document on the liturgy, Sacrosanctum Concilium.

This would seem to express the phrase in the Constitution on the Liturgy that «the Ordo Missae is to be revised in a way that will reveal more clearly the real function of each of the parts and the connections of the various parts with one another.»

He has worked as a consultant to the US Conference of Bishops» Committee on the Liturgy and for the Congregation for Divine Worship in the Vatican.

At last he said, «My mind is still on the liturgy.

Whether commenting on the liturgy or arguing a point of morality, Howard stresses the biblical foundation, interpreted and expanded by tradition.

Instead, I'm looking across the Great Schism to read the Lenten reflections of Alexander Schmemann, an Orthodox priest and teacher well known for his prolific writing on the liturgy.

This seems to me the point at which private prayer is most threatened by an all too easy misunderstanding of the present teaching on the liturgy.

The Constitution on the Liturgy confronts us with many tasks which are still outstanding, especially as the Bishops» Conferences have been given considerable competences in this field which should be used courageously.

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.

All this must not be forgotten if the longe antecellere of the Constitution on the Liturgy is to be rightly understood.

We will here not discuss in detail in what sense and with what reservations the liturgy is to be called the first and neces - sary source of the Christian life and spirit (Decree on Priestly Formation, Optatam Totius, art. 16 Decree on the Appropriate Renewal of the Religious Life, Perfectae Caritatis, art. 6), of grace (Constitution on the Liturgy, art. 10) and the summit to which all the action of the Church is directed (ibid., art. 10), and how all other Christian activity and prayer has its origin and goal in the liturgy.

The commentary indicates that the Constitution on the Liturgy has not clarified certain important points.

Orthodox intellectual life in America has long been centered at St. Vladimir's, where John Meyendorff and Alexander Schmemann produced writings on liturgy and theology that remain must - reading for theologians, and at Holy Cross School of Theology in Brookline, Massachusetts.

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

Should we place the main emphasis of our efforts on catechesis or on liturgy?

Chapters are uneven: Chapter 13 on liturgy is only two and a half pages long and that includes the footnotes; the following chapter on the Sacrament of Ordination is some 50 pages long and has no less than four separate summaries.

I could not wait to read a book of literary essays on the liturgy which, one was told, «had taken Germany by storm».

[1] Constitution on the Liturgy n. 110.

[2] Catechism of the Catholic Church n 840 and Constitution on the Liturgy n. 110.

Arthur Paul Boers focuses on pastoral leadership; Lillian Daniel offers a moving reflection on liturgy, a congregation's division over a war - resolution debate, and a surprising instance of local church triumphalism; and Eugene McCarraher argues that the church is the political community within which Christians must debate war and peace.

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.

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.

Which, in case you've forgotten, teaches that «no... person, not even a priest, may add, remove, or change anything in the liturgy on his own authority.»

Not only is the historical basis for current practice meager, says Ratzinger, it has the effect of closing the Liturgy in on itself.

On this point, then, I look forward to Smith's continued work on articulating a criterion for identifying the secular liturgies that cut against the GospeOn this point, then, I look forward to Smith's continued work on articulating a criterion for identifying the secular liturgies that cut against the Gospeon articulating a criterion for identifying the secular liturgies that cut against the Gospel.

The cultivation of culture — first, among Catholics themselves, and then outwards from there — depends on a proper cultus, a liturgy in which God is sought and found.

The Psalter Translated from the Hebrew by the International Commission on English in the Liturgy.

Since the Second Vatican Council's Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, which called for funeral rites to «express more clearly the paschal character of Christian death,» the homilies and general aura of Catholic funerals have often ignored Purgatory and instead canonized the deceased among the heavenly blessed....

Once a year, the patriarch celebrates an open - air liturgy on the site.

Lost amidst so much experimentation and emphasis on creativity has been the «givenness» of liturgy, the sense that «one can not do with it what one will.»

On the day of a martyr or confessor's death, the Church includes his or her name in the prayers of the liturgy.

'' It is surely of salutary significance that newly appointed deans and bishops these days are sent on an induction course — not as you might think, to hone their skills in theology, or liturgy, community outreach, or pastoral care, but to take a mini-MBA.

A focus on the formative power of the liturgy may become but another «interest» of some intellectuals, which will have the usual short run at the seminary box office.

As he explains, «The real presence effected in the Eucharist that is celebrated on the earthly altar is, as the liturgy indicates, a presence in and with Christ in heaven, where he stands before God as our great high priest.»

... In this spirit let us celebrate the liturgy of the holy night, let us strip away our fixation on what is material, on what can be measured and grasped.»

But we agree with him in calling for a translation, faithful to the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy, «that is accurate, inspiring, reverent, proclaimable, understandable, pastoral in every sense - a text that raises our minds and hearts to God».

On the rides home from worship, we discuss sermons, scripture, rituals, liturgy — you name it!