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Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian sacred works & liturgy > Liturgy > General
Jesus was condemned . . . so we could be set free. He was wounded .
. . so we can be healed. He died . . . so we might have life. The
cross has lost much of its appeal as a symbol of Christianity. Yet
what Christ did at the cross remains central to our faith. In this
richly designed book, Michael Card reflects on what it means for
Christians that we meet our savior at a cross. Card combs the Old
Testament prophecies and Gospel accounts of Jesus' self-sacrifice,
seeking a renewed vision of the cross-the inconceivable meeting
place of violence and grace.
Renowned pastor and New York Times bestselling author Timothy
Keller writes the book his readers have been asking for: A
year-long daily devotional, beautifully designed with gilt edges
and a gold ribbon marker. The Book of Psalms is known as the
Bible's songbook-Jesus knew all 150 psalms intimately, and relied
on them to face every situation, including his death. Two decades
ago, Tim Keller began reading the entire Book of Psalms every
month. The Songs of Jesus is based on his accumulated years of
study, insight, and inspiration recorded in his prayer journals.
Kathy Keller came to reading the psalms as a support during an
extended illness. Together they have distilled the meaning of each
verse, inviting readers into the vast wisdom of the psalms. If you
have no devotional life yet, this book is a wonderful way to start.
If you already spend time in study and prayer, understanding every
verse of the psalms will bring you a new level of intimacy with
God, unlocking your purpose within God's kingdom.
In this book Paramahansa Yogananda offers prayers and affirmations
that beginners and experienced meditators alike can use to awaken
the boundless joy, peace, and inner freedom of the soul. Features
more than 300 uplifting meditations, prayers, affirmations, and
visualizations as well as introductory instructions on how to
meditate.
First full-length study of the role and duties of the medieval
cantor. Cantors made unparalleled contributions to the way time was
understood and history was remembered in the medieval Latin West.
The men and women who held this office in cathedrals and
monasteries were responsible for calculating the date of Easter and
the feasts dependent on it, for formulating liturgical celebrations
season by season, managing the library and preparing manuscripts
and other sources necessary to sustain the liturgical framework of
time, andpromoting the cults of saints. Crucially, their duties
also often included committing the past to writing, from simple
annals and chronicles to fuller histories, necrologies, and
cartularies, thereby ensuring that towns, churches, families, and
individuals could be commemorated for generations to come. This
volume seeks to address the fundamental question of how the range
of cantors' activities can help us to understand the many different
ways in which the past was written and, in the liturgy, celebrated
across the Middle Ages. Its essays are studies of constructions,
both of the building blocks of time and of the people who made and
performed them, in acts of ritual remembrance and in written
records; cantors, as this book makes clear, shaped the communal
experience of the past in the Middle Ages. KATIE ANN-MARIE BUGYIS
is Assistant Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the
University of Notre Dame; A.B. KRAEBEL is Assistant Professor of
English at Trinity University; MARGOT FASSLER is Kenough-Hesburgh
Professor of Music History and Liturgy at the University of Notre
Dame and Robert Tangeman Professor Emerita of Music History at Yale
University. Contributors: Cara Aspesi, Anna de Bakker, Alison I.
Beach, Katie Ann-Marie Bugyis, Margot E. Fassler, David Ganz, James
Grier, Paul Antony Hayward, Peter Jeffery, Claire TaylorJones, A.B.
Kraebel, Lori Kruckenberg, Rosamond McKitterick, Henry Parkes,
Susan Rankin, C.C. Rozier, Sigbjorn Olsen Sonnesyn, Teresa Webber,
Lauren Whitnah
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