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"The Prayer-Saturated Church" provides step-by-step, practical help
for mobilizing, organizing, and motivating believers to make their
church a house of prayer. Written by a veteran prayer leader with
hands-on experience in local church prayer, "The Prayer-Saturated
Church" will enable any church to take prayer to the next level.The
print version comes with a CD that contains printable
forms--publicity templates, sign-up applications, prayer guides,
and more--to promote, encourage, and energize your congregation
toward more prayer.
2021 Catholic Media Association Award first place award in backlist
beauty. Benedictine Daily Prayer provides an everyday edition of
the Divine Office for people who desire to pray with the church in
a simple manner. Based on fifteen hundred years of liturgical
prayer within the Benedictine monastic tradition, Benedictine Daily
Prayer offers a rich diet of classic office hymnody, psalmody, and
Scripture. This fully revised edition includes: A new organization
for the Office of Vigils, structured on a two-week cycle Daily
Offices also arranged on a two-week cycle Patristic readings for
each Sunday Concluding prayers for the daily and seasonal offices A
more user-friendly layout Benedictine Daily Prayer is designed for
Benedictine oblates, Benedictine monastics, and men and women
everywhere. Small enough to fit in a briefcase for travel, it is
arranged by date. Scripture readings are from the NRSV.
First published in 1979, this groundbreaking book established
Edward Hays as a pioneering spiritual writer and teacher, and has
since sold over 145,00 copies. This new edition with a new preface
by the author celebrates the "domestic church" - a family
worshiping together at home - with a collection of prayers and
blessings that remain as fresh and creative today as they were over
twenty-five years ago. With blessings for birthdays, family
members, the home, pets, and more, this book makes it easy and fun
to gather in prayer as a family. This book is an ideal gift for
weddings, baptisms, the birth of a child, special family
milestones, and sacred moments.
Cantors throughout the United States and elsewhere have long known
Kathleen Harmon, SNDdeN, as a reliable teacher and mentor in how
they understand and practice their important ministry. In Becoming
the Psalms, she explores the spirituality of the psalms, a
spirituality that shaped God's people in the past, forms the church
today, and leads us into the future. Each chapter offers cantors
who pray and sing the psalms a better understanding of the role of
the psalms in shaping faith. Kathleen Harmon is known as the author
of Music Notes, a popular column in the journal Liturgical
Ministry. Becoming the Psalms showcases some of her finest entries
as well as new material exploring the relationship between praying
the psalms privately and praying them liturgically, as well as the
function of the responsorial psalm as proclamation.
The twentieth century has been called a "century of horror". Proof
of that, designation can be found in the vast and ever-increasing
volume of scholarly work on violence, trauma, memory, and history
across diverse academic disciplines. This book demonstrates not
only the ways in which the wars of the twentieth century have
altered theological engagement and religious practice, but also the
degree to which religious ways of thinking have shaped the way we
construct historical narratives. Drawing on diverse sources - from
the Hebrew Bible to Commonwealth war graves, from Greek tragedy to
post-Holocaust theology - Alana M. Vincent probes the intersections
between past and present, memory and identity, religion and
nationality. The result is a book that defies categorization and
offers no easy answers, but instead pursues an agenda of
theological realism, holding out continued hope for the restoration
of the world.
This finely crafted pocket-sized book provides a practical and
permanent way to record the birthdays and anniversaries of friends
and loved ones. A spiritual thought, inspired by the
Saint-of-the-Day, appears on each page for every day of the year.
There is ample space to include personal reflections or note .
Thomas Merton was the most popular proponent of the Christian
contemplative tradition in the twentieth century. Now, for the
first time, his most lyrical and prayerful writings have been
arranged into A Book of Hours, which provides such a rich resource
for daily prayer and contemplation that imitates the increasingly
popular ancient monastic practice of "praying the hours". Editor
Kathleen Deignan mined Merton's voluminous writings, arranging
prayers for Dawn, Day, Dusk, and Dark for each of the days of the
week. A Book of Hours gives readers a wide spectacle of texts, with
psalms, prayers, readings, and reflections.
Ha deseado ver la absoluta pureza de Dios y conocer la santidad que
el espera de sus hijos? En El Ayuno y la Oracion aprendera acerca
de las bendiciones disponibles para cada cristiano cuando los
poderosos principios biblicos se convierten en estilos de vida,
poniendo a Jesus en primer lugar. A traves de sus nueve capitulos,
este manual le hara entender verdades fundamentales acerca del
ayuno y la oracion tales como: * El ayuno no es una opcion, es un
mandato de Dios * El ayuno con poca oracion carece de poder * No
haga ayuno si no esta dispuesto a que Dios revise su estilo de vida
interior y exterior Nada es mas relevante en la vida del cristiano
que la practica del ayuno y la oracion, ademas del examen de las
Escrituras. El creyente que ora y ayuna vive mas cerca de Cristo
Jesus y le da a todo lo demas un lugar secundario en su vida. Este
libro le ensenara a poner en practica una vida consagrada al Senor.
Lo cual le hara vivir en victoria aun en medio de las
dificultades."
The nineteenth century was a period of intense religious conflict
across Europe, as people confronted the major changes brought by
modernity. In Zurich, one phase of this religious conflict was
played out in a struggle over revisions to the ritual of baptism.
In its analysis of the Zurich conflict, Liturgy Wars offers a
strategy for understanding the links between theology, ritual, and
socio-politics. Theodore M. Vial offers a new perspective on
contemporary ritual studies - and critiques the cognivist
approaches of Lawson and McCauley, as well as Catherine Bell's
analysis of power and the body - by reintergrating the imporatance
of speech acts into considerations of ritual.
This former Deputy Warden of Iona Abbey presents a selection of the
liturgies she wrote for worship there which aim to stimulate a
rediscovery of God in everyday life. As well as exploring aspects
of creativity in worship design, she also provides numerous poetic
reflections, stories and duologue's designed for people of
different ages and backgrounds. This work is ideal for churches
wanting to discover fresh insights into the Gospels as well as for
individual reflection, prayer and meditation.
This book examines in detail the concept of "abrogation" in the
Qur an, which has played a major role in the development of Islamic
law and has implications for understanding the history and
integrity of the Qur anic text. The term has gained popularity in
recent years, as Muslim groups and individuals claim that many
passages about tolerance in the Qur an have been abrogated by
others that call on Muslims to fight their enemies. Author Louay
Fatoohi argues that this could not have been derived from the Qur
an, and that its implications contradict Qur anic principles. He
also reveals conceptual flaws in the principle of abrogation as
well as serious problems with the way it was applied by different
scholars.
Abrogation in the Qur an and Islamic Law traces the development
of the concept from its most basic form to the complex and
multi-faceted doctrine it has become. The book shows what specific
problems the three modes of abrogation were introduced to solve,
and how this concept has shaped Islamic law. The book also
critiques the role of abrogation in rationalizing the view that not
all of the Qur anic revelation has survived in the "mushaf," or the
written record of the Qur an. This role makes understanding
abrogation an essential prerequisite for studying the history of
the Qur anic text. "
This new Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book by Catholic Book
Publishing has everything you need for prayer. The most
comprehensive prayer book, the Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book is
literally an encyclopedia of prayer. Edited by Rev. Francis Evans,
the new Saint Joseph People's Prayer Book draws prayers from a wide
variety of spiritual sources including the Bible, the Liturgy, the
Enchiridion of Indulgences, the Saints, Church Scholars and other
Spiritual Writers. At over 1,000 pages, this essential volume
contains over 1,400 prayers for every need.
The English Civil War and its aftermath was a time of human
devastation, political uncertainty and religious instability. Amid
the turmoil of those times, however, the Church of England also saw
intense liturgical inventiveness. The Directory for Public Worship,
Jeremy Taylor's Communion Office, and Richard Baxter's Reformed
Liturgy, are all examples of resourceful liturgies born out of the
ashes of the English Civil War. The Church of England had not
witnessed such liturgical innovation since Thomas Cranmer, and
would not see such creativity again until the end of the twentieth
century - at least in terms of liturgical texts. In Richard
Baxter's Reformation of the Liturgy, Glen J. Segger examines the
theology and ecclesiology of Baxter's liturgical opus. While never
approved for public use, the Reformed Liturgy remains an important
and creative liturgy representative of those who fought for their
Puritan convictions, but lost.
Prayer, our conversation with God, needs no set formulas or flowery
phrases. It often needs no words at all. But for most believers,
the words of others can be a wonderful aid to devotion, especially
when these words come from faithful fellow pilgrims.
"An African Prayer Book" is just such an aid, for in this
collection all the spiritual riches of the vast and varied
continent of Africa are bravely set forth. Here we overhear the
simple prayer of the penniless Bushman, the words of some of the
greatest Church fathers (Augustine and Athanasius), petitioning and
jubilant voices from South Africa's struggle for freedom, and even
prayers from the Africa diasporas of North America and the
Caribbean. Here are Jesus's own encounters with Africa, which
provided him refuge at the beginning of his life (from the
murderous King Herod) and aid at its end (in the person of Simon of
Cyrene, who helped Jesus carry his cross). From thunderous
multi-invocation litanies to quiet meditations, here are prayers
every heart can speak with strength and confidence.
The liturgy, the public worship of the Catholic Church, was a
crucial factor in forging the society of early medieval Rome. As
the Roman Empire dissolved, a new world emerged as Christian
bishops stepped into the power vacuum left by the dismantling of
the Empire. Among these potentates, none was more important than
the bishop of Rome, the pope. The documents, archaeology, and
architecture that issued forth from papal Rome in the seventh and
eighth centuries preserve a precious glimpse into novel societal
patterns. The underexploited liturgical sources in particular
enrich and complicate our historical understanding of this period.
They show how liturgy was the 'social glue' that held together the
Christian society of early medieval Rome - and excluded those who
did not belong to it. This study places the liturgy center stage,
filling a gap in research on early medieval Rome and demonstrating
the utility of investigating how the liturgy functioned in medieval
Europe. It includes a detailed analysis of the papal Mass, the
central act of liturgy and the most obvious example of the close
interaction of liturgy, social relations and power. The first
extant Mass liturgy, the First Roman Ordo, is also given a new
presentation in Latin here with an English translation and
commentary. Other grand liturgical events such as penitential
processions are also examined, as well as more mundane acts of
worship. Far from a pious business with limited influence, the
liturgy established an exchange between humans and the divine that
oriented Roman society to God and fostered the dominance of the
clergy.
The liturgical psalter is one of the most important medieval
Christian books and the most frequently and richly illuminated of
medieval liturgical manuscripts. In its simplest form the psalter
included 150 psalms, preceded by a calendar and followed by the
canticles for the daily offices, the litany of saints and collects.
This basic structure was very stable throughout the Middle Ages and
is found in an overwhelming majority of psalters from different
countries. In spite of the similarity of core content, psalters
were very variable in their size, decoration, choice of
supplementary texts and style of presentation, reflecting the
interests and requirements of a wide range of lay and religious
patrons. Latin Liturgical Psalters in the Bodleian Library contains
descriptions of 111 psalters from Britain, France, the Netherlands,
Germany, Austria, Italy and Spain, ranging in date from the ninth
to the sixteenth century. Each entry includes a description of
contents, decoration, physical makeup and provenance, together with
a bibliography. The entries are supplemented by comparative tables
and indices to assist the study of illumination, manuscript
presentation and the liturgical use of the psalms. Full colour
images of pages from each of the manuscripts are also included,
some of which are reproduced here for the first time. This
catalogue brings together important information on a stunning
selection of manuscripts held in the Bodleian Library, providing an
invaluable resource for scholars.
A collection of blessings for the people, sadnesses, artefacts,
special occasions and journeys of our lives. It also explores the
tradition of blessings including biblical and Celtic, and offers
ideas and resources to encourage readers to write blessings of
their own with suggestions for how to organise a blessings
workshop. Ruth Burgess, who is also co-editor with Kathy Galloway
of "Praying for the Dawn: A Resource Book", leads liturgical
workshops which often include 'blessing-writing'. She aims in this
book to pass on her experience and knowledge.
In the wake of recent papal legislation, the various liturgies of
the Roman Rite may today be celebrated in either their
post-Tridentine or post-Vatican II forms. Whilst much discussion of
this new situation focuses on purely liturgical issues, this book
breaks new ground by arguing that the coexistence of the two forms
raises questions of a profoundly ecclesiological character. Peter
McGrail explores the relationship between ritual form, ecclesial
self- understanding and constructs of the world that are at play as
adults become members of the Church. Analysing the rites by which
adults were taken into the Church for three and a half centuries,
this book goes on to explore attempts to find a new ritual
expression for the journey to Christian Initiation, set against the
divergent and even conflicting ecclesiologies which were at play
before and during the Council.
With the twelve-volume series Feasting on the Word, Westminster
John Knox Press offers one of the most extensive and well-respected
resources for preaching on the market today. When complete, the
twelve volumes will cover all of the Sundays in the three-year
lectionary cycle, along with moveable occasions.The page layout is
truly unique. For each lectionary text, preachers will find brief
essaysA--one each on the exegetical, theological, pastoral, and
homiletical challenges of the text. Each volume will also contain
an index of biblical passages so that nonlectionary preachers may
make use of its contents. The printed volumes for Ordinary Time
include the complementary stream during Year A, the complementary
stream during the first half of Year B, the semicontinuous stream
during the second half of Year B, and the semicontinuous stream
during Year C. Beginning with the season after Pentecost in Year C,
the alternate lections for Ordinary Time not in the print volumes
will be available online at feastingontheword.net.
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