Liturgics, the study of liturgies, inquires into "the totality of worship culture ... at all levels of church and social life" (Peter Cornehl) and thus has an important function of bridging between theology and cultural sciences. Accordingly, this instruction manual and textbook has been designed for Evangelical and Catholic scholars and students alike. It is also suitable as a reference work and offers theologians in service, cultural scientists, and interested laypersons the fundamental information needed for the pending interdisciplinary discourse about cultural phenomena that have arisen from Christianity's culture of worship.

In the second decade of the sixteenth century medieval piety suddenly began to be attacked in some places as "idolatry," or false religion. This study calls attention to the importance of the idolatry issue during the Reformation.

Booklet size. Great Saints have assured us that St. Joseph can assist us in needs of every kind. Includes all the famous prayers to St. Joseph: the Novena, Prayer to Obtain a Special Favor, Litany, 30 Days' Prayer, Memorare, Ancient Prayer, Prayer for Purity, to Obtain a Conversion, a Happy Death, and much more. (5-2.00 ea.; 10-1.75 ea.; 25-1.25 ea.; 50-1.00 ea.; 100-.75 ea).

This is the edition of Supplemental Liturgical Materials prepared by The Standing Liturgical Commission 1997. Materials include seventeen additional canticles taken from the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, the New Testament, Anselm of Canterbury, and Julian of Norwich. There are also additions and changes to the previously published supplemental materials including a third Eucharistic Prayer.

In the Anglican churches of North America, and sometimes elsewhere, there are two complaints about deacons in the liturgy: Bishops and priests complain that deacons don t know how to do liturgy. Deacons complain that bishops and priests won t let them do liturgy. The solution lies in liturgical formation, both theological and practical. This book is designed to help provide that formation for bishops, priests, deacons, and indeed for all the people of God.

The introduction provides a brief history of the use of deacons in Anglican liturgies, from 1549 to the present, including characteristics and statement of purposes. "