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In introducing eight new eucharistic prayers, "Common Worship" has
focused fresh attention on the most central act of Christian
worship. This text offers a wealth of information on both the words
and actions of the Eucharist. Part one focuses on the content of
the Eucharist, from the opening greeting to the final blessing and
dismissal. Each stage of the service is explored from a biblical
and historical perpective and readers discover how the Eucharist
has evolved from the days of the Early Church. Part two focuses on
the actions of the Eucharist: the posture and movement of the
celebrant and participants, ceremonial, symbolism, the role of
memory, essentials and variables in the rite. Part Three explores
the eight different Eucharistic prayers of "Common Worship", their
distinctive styles, provenance, theological features and pastoral
uses.
The first of four volumes, containing the edited texts,
commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred
occasions of special worship and for each of the annual
commemorations in Engand and Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Since
the sixteenth century, the governments and established churches of
the British Isles have summoned the nation to special acts of
public worship during periods of anxiety and crisis, at times of
celebration or for annual commemoration and remembrance. These
special prayers, special days of worship and anniversary
commemorations were national events, reaching into every parish in
England and Wales, in Scotland and in Ireland. They had
considerable religious, ecclesiastical, political, ideological,
moral and social significance, and they produced important texts:
proclamations, council orders, addresses and - in England, Wales
and Ireland - prayers or complete liturgies which for specified
periods supplemented or replaced the services in the Book of Common
Prayer. Many of these acts of special worship and most of the texts
have escaped historical notice. National Prayers. Special Worship
since the Reformation, in four volumes, provides the edited texts,
commentaries and source notes for each of the nearly nine hundred
occasions of special worship and for each of the annual
commemorations. The first volume, SpecialPrayers, Fasts and
Thanksgivings in the British Isles 1533-1688, has an extended
Introduction to the four volumes and a consolidated list of all the
occasions of special worship. It contains texts and commentaries
which revealthe origins of special occasions of national worship
during the Reformation in both England and Scotland, the
development of fast days and wartime prayers later in the sixteenth
century, and what we know about the origins of special national
worship in Ireland. It also shows how special worship became a
recurrent focus and expression of religion and political contention
during the seventeenth century. Edited by Natalie Mears, Alasdair
Raffe, Stephen Taylor and Philip Williamson (with Lucy Bates).
'Holy Ground' contains liturgies and worship resources on a range
of subjects and concerns: globalisation, food, water, HIV/Aids, the
environment, interfaith dialogue, prisoners of conscience, 20th
century martyrs, homelessness, racism, gender, living in community,
youth, children, ageing... and much more.
'Because the Sacred Liturgy is truly the font from which all the
Church's power flows...we must do everything we can to put the
Sacred Liturgy back at the very heart of the relationship between
God and man... I ask you to continue to work towards achieving the
liturgical aims of the Second Vatican Council...and to work to
continue the liturgical renewal promoted by Pope Benedict XVI,
especially through the post-synodal apostolic exhortation
Sacramentum Caritatis...and the motu proprio Summorum Pontificum...
I ask you to be wise, like the householder...who knows when to
bring out of his treasure things both new and old (see: Mtt 13:52),
so that the Sacred Liturgy as it is celebrated and lived today may
lose nothing of the estimable riches of the Church's liturgical
tradition, whilst always being open to legitimate development.'
These words of Robert Cardinal Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation
for Divine Worship, underline the liturgy's fundamental role in
every aspect of the life and mission of the Church. Liturgy in the
Twenty-First Century makes available the different perspectives on
this from leading figures such as Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke,
Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone, Abbot Philip Anderson, Father
Thomas Kocik, Dom Alcuin Reid, and Dr Lauren Pristas. Considering
questions of liturgical catechetics, music, preaching, how young
people relate to the liturgy, matters of formation and reform,
etc., Liturgy in the Twenty-First Century is an essential resource
for all clergy and religious and laity involved in liturgical
ministry and formation. Bringing forth 'new treasures as well as
old,' its contributors identify and address contemporary challenges
and issues facing the task of realising the vision of Cardinal
Sarah, Cardinal Ratzinger/Benedict XVI and the Second Vatican
Council.
Many devout Catholics make novenas. This book is published to
accomodate those who would like to make various novenas and who
would like to have them in a single volume. A brief instruction or
meditation precedes each entry.
This book leads children, step-by-step, through the Roman Catholic
Mass, helping them to understand all its elements and preparing
them to participate with their families.
Before the advent of printing, the preaching of the friars was the mass medium of the middle ages. This edition of marriage sermons reveals what a number of famous preachers actually taught about marriage. David D'Avray teases out the close connection between marriage symbolism and social, cultural, and legal realities in the thirteenth century; and assesses the impact of this preaching.
Completely updated to reflect the sweeping changes in worship
patterns which began with "The Liturgical Revival" and culminated
in the adoption of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.
Chapters cover preparations for the various services of the
Church, plus special celebrations such as Advent, Christmas, Lent,
Holy Week, and Easter, weddings, burials, ordinations,
consecrations, and others. A glossary of church terms is
included.
This convenient pocket-sized book contains the necessary texts for
the lenten celebration of the Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified
Gifts by the priest and deacon, interpolated with comprehensive
rubrical directions. The parallel format gives the Church Slavonic
text on the left page and the English on the right. The book also
includes thanksgiving prayers upon receiving Holy Communion and the
priest's prayers at Matins. This smyth sewn and stamped hardback
edition is printed in two colors, with rubrics in red. Includes two
marking ribbons.
The Psalms of David are the foundation of Christian worship and
integral to its form and content. This edition of the classic
Coverdale translation is accompanied by prayers and rubrics from
the Liturgical Psalter of the Russian Church, adapted to conform to
the Greek Septuagint text, and subdivided into the twenty
traditional Orthodox liturgical kathismata. It is presented here
for the first time in a slimmed down pocket edition to inspire
daily use in prayer at home and when traveling. The text is
complimented by a flexible textured binding, gold stamped cover,
and three marker ribbons.
This study examines the scriptural justification for believers to
expect the Eucharist to be a place where God will come and bless
them with freedom and formation. Bubbers' focus is not on liturgy,
but rather on the biblical message of the benefits of participation
in the Eucharist. Why keep this Feast? Why is Eucharist important?
Bubbers' interpretive approach is a synthesis of
historical-literary aspects of Biblical Theology and
canonical-creedal aspects of the Theological Reading of Scripture,
taking into account the biblical-historical place of Eucharist, as
well as its ongoing presence within the Church. Bubbers begins by
displaying the Last Supper as a Passover meal which bridges between
Old Testament motifs and the New Testament Feast. She then shows
that the Exodus context reveals a paradigm which links blessing
with remembrance, and suggests that the remembrance motif describes
these blessings. Finally, Bubbers gathers a catalogue of specific
blessings, summarized by freedom and formation. Her conclusion is
that the Feast is a divinely designed paradigm for worship, which
is accompanied by a promise of transformational encounters.
A completely revised and expanded edition of this collection of
liturgies for morning, day, evening, Holy Communion and healing
services and there are revised liturgies from the original edition.
Aimed primarily at participative worship with shared leadership, it
includes optional methods of scriptural reflection and prayer with
symbolic acction. There is also a preface of comments on leading
worship, dealing with all the issues which ordained clergy never
tell lay people but presume they should know.
10 of the most popular Catholic novenas are featured in this book,
i.e. Sacred Heart, St. Therese, St. Jude, St. Joseph, St.
Peregrine, Infant of Prague, St. Anne and Miraculous Medal.
Kirstie Blair explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian
religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary
debates over the use of forms in worship. She argues that poetry
made significant contributions to these debates, not least through
its formal structures. By assessing the discourses of church
architecture and liturgy in the first half of the book, Form and
Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion demonstrates that Victorian
poets both reflected on and affected ecclesiastical practices. The
second half of the book focuses on particular poets and poems,
including Browning's Christmas-Eve and Tennyson's In Memoriam, to
show how High Anglican debates over formal worship were dealt with
by Dissenting, Broad Church and Roman Catholic poets and other
writers. This book features major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the
Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - from different Christian
denominations, but also argues that their work was influenced by a
host of minor and less studied writers, particularly the Tractarian
or Oxford Movement poets whose writings are studied in detail here.
Form and Faith presents a new take on Victorian poetry by showing
how important now-forgotten religious controversies were to the
content and form of some of the best-known poems of the period. In
methodology and content, it also relates strongly to current
critical interest in poetic form and formalism, while recovering a
historical context in which 'form' carried a particular weight of
significance.
A short, simple and thoroughly biblical explanation of the meaning
and purpose of Holy Communion, designed to appeal to all ages.
Explains its biblical origins, the different ways in which
Christians have understood it over the centuries, and its crucial
place in the Christian life today.
Comprehensive catalogue of the hagiographical lessons in Sarum
breviaries, with key studies of the most crucial elements. Sarum
Use was the most widely used form of the liturgy in late medieval
England, but its service books were much less standardized than
their modern counterparts. The lack of uniformity is particularly
marked in Sarum breviaries' lessons on saints, which can vary
enormously from copy to copy. This book is the first comprehensive
examination of those lessons and the manuscripts that preserve
them. It provides a catalogue of over 80 manuscripts and 12 early
printed versions, giving a brief description of each one, sometimes
correcting previous views of its date and provenance, and
identifying each copy's divergences from the standard Sarum roster
of saints. The book also identifies the textual families into which
the manuscripts fall and the extent of their divergence from the
lessons in both the early printed versions and the inadequate
nineteenth-century edition on which modern scholars have previously
depended. The author's findings offer an introduction to the
unexpectedly rich variety of hagiographical lessons that survive,
identify some of the sources behind them, and shed new light on the
ways in which the Sarum breviary developed and was disseminated in
the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.
Companion volume to SS 5 and SS 17, completing the set
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