Sentences with phrase «where liturgy»

Worship with One Accord: Where Liturgy and Ecumenism Embrace.

There always has been a small though significant and still growing support for the Old Mass in the English - speaking world where liturgy in the English language was always seen as the unmistakable medium of non-Catholic worship.

Even where liturgy and theology do not seem to be providing any distinct denominational links, some congregations maintain their loyalty because their denomination helps them accomplish their mission.

For all our differences, it was good to be at a gathering where not only the Bible but also history, denominational distinctives, and the Creed were valued; where the liturgy reflected the seriousness of the gospel message; where the delegates thought confessionally; and where we spoke the same theological and ecclesiastical language.

Not exact matches

This is part of a series called concrete liturgies by a Christian community, Vaux, where they're exploring what it means to express faith and worship in the language of the city.

Progressive liberalism has its own cruel sacraments — especially the shaming and, where possible, legal punishment of the intolerant or illiberal — and its own liturgy, the Festival of Reason, the ever - repeated overcoming of the darkness of reaction.

Or do we dumb the liturgy down to substance - free spiritual sentiment and leave them where they are?

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.»

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.

For he gives his grace according to his good pleasure, both in the liturgy and outside it, and hence allows us to experience it where it is most easily and authentically accessible.

We need Sunday morning liturgies when worshipers are in an audience mode typical of discipleship, and we need soma group liturgies for smaller gatherings where worshipers are in a participatory mode typical of the transition to life in the Spirit and of maturing in the church and in mission.

After exchanging greetings the two old men, both suffering from diabetes and the afternoon heat, walked arm - in - arm past rug shops, falafel stands, vendors of rosaries and frankincense, into the massive Crusader - built Church of the Holy Sepulchre (constructed on the ruins of Constantine's Anastasis) where a Byzantine liturgy of thanksgiving was conducted to mark the event.

Therefore the boundary between liturgy and private communal prayer is not very clear either, since this, where commended and directed, makes a fluid transition into episcopally controlled devotion.

Hundreds of Christians joined a Maundy Thursday church service of prayer and liturgy staged in a part of Jerusalem where some believers think the Last Supper was...

My friend, Reverend Gretchen Schoon - Tanis, reminded me that our liturgy says, «I thirst for God for the living God, where shall I go?»

Answering the monastery phone only the day before, Father Christodoulos had invited me to attend the liturgy and then to join the group for breakfast, where I would be free to ask him questions.

Of course, you have also to keep in mind where the song fits in the flow of the liturgy.

Many priests trained in the past 20 years have attended catechetical courses given by national figures using precisely Fr Purnell's approach where the Church teaching and liturgy are just the explication of what is going on in each person.

Christians who speak of «paschal identity» will wish to point to the liturgy as the place where the drama of word, offertory, Great Thanksgiving, and eucharist is enacted by and for all sinners.

It is a necessary part of being where he is; it is a dimension of «liturgy,» staying before the presence of God and the presence of God's creation (human and nonhuman) in prayer and love.

The point of correcting bad habits is to celebrate the Novus Ordo of Paul VI with dignity and beauty, so that Holy Mass is experienced for what it is: our participation in the liturgy of saints and angels in heaven» where, I am quite confident, they don't sing treacly confections like «Gather Us In.»

Where it holds its own is in the sacred liturgy, exactly because it can not be confused with music of other styles.

Or, if the traditional imagery is preserved — e.g. in liturgy, where its use is perfectly legitimate — we should see that its real meaning is given adequate interpretation.

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.

But religious people have used and continue to use some of this language; it appears not just in funeral liturgies but also in greeting cards and in obituary pages, where letters and poems addressed to the beloved dead by the bereaved are standard fare.

And all this should be happening in a church where sacred images help to focus the mind on prayer, and where everything used in the liturgy is beautiful and of good quality.

He'll also grow up more comfortable with the liturgy and rituals of your faith and come to see a house of worship as a place where he can feel comfortable and secure.