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2020 Catholic Press Association honorable mention award for faith
and science This collection of essays explores the rich and diverse
intersections between the world of liturgy and the worlds of
creation and the cosmos. The intersections highlighted here include
biblical, historical, visual, and musical materials as well as
contemporary theological and pastoral challenges for worship today.
The essays gathered in this volume were first presented at the 2018
Yale Institute of Sacred Music Liturgy Conference and are here made
available to a wider audience. These essays are responses to the
unprecedented attention to ecological and cosmological concerns,
which call for sustained engagement by scholars and practitioners
of liturgy.
Theology began with the appearances of the risen Jesus. That is,
theology began when persons were confronted with a presence that
could only be realized by the act of God. In The Eucharistic Faith,
the first of a significant new systematic theology of the
Eucharist, Ralph N. McMichael weaves liturgy and theology together
to understand the ways in which theology and Christian faith are,
at heart, about the receiving of the gift of Jesus' life in
Communion.
While strong, gospel-centered preaching abounds, many Christian
pastors and lay preachers find it difficult to preach meaningfully
from the Old Testament. This practical handbook offers help. Graeme
Goldsworthy teaches the basics of preaching the whole Bible in a
consistently Christ-centered way.Goldsworthy first examines the
Bible, biblical theology, and preaching and shows how they relate
in the preparation of Christ-centered sermons. He then applies the
biblical-theological method to the various types of literature
found in the Bible, drawing out their contributions to expository
preaching focused on the person and work of Christ.Clear, complete,
and immediately applicable, this volume will become a fundamental
text for teachers, pastors, and students preparing for ministry.
At the heart of Clothed in Language lies a journal, but the
writing, while personal, has been given a thematic structure.
Seeing language as a vital medium through which the divine is made
present to us, scholar and poet Pauline Matarasso explores the ways
in which this God-given language, with its overcoat of metaphor and
undertow of rhythm, serves to reflect the truth and, on occasion,
mask it. This book also includes an essay that looks at certain
features common to myth, fairy tale, lore, and Scripture.
A new edition of Gregory Dix's masterpiece, still essential reading
for students and scholars and in print constantly for fifty years.
Dom Gregory Dix's classic account of the development of the
Eucharist rite continues to be the definitive and authoritative
work on the subject. He presents his massive scholarship in lively
and non technical language for all who wish to understand their
worship in terms of the framework from which it has evolved. He
demonstrates the creative force of Christianity over the centuries
through liturgy and the societies it has moulded. His great work
has for nearly fifty years regularly been quoted for its devotional
as well as its historical value, and has regularly attracted new
readers. In this book for the first time, critical studies in the
learned periodicals of many countries have been carefully sifted
and the results arranged to give a clear picture of the development
of the Eucharistic rite.
In this book, Gerald O'Collins, SJ, takes a systematic look at the
2010 English translation of the Roman Missal and the ways it fails
to achieve what the Second Vatican Council mandated: the full
participation of priest and people. Critiquing the unsatisfactory
principles prescribed by the Vatican instruction Liturgiam
Authenticam (2001), this book, which includes a chapter by John
Wilkins: tells the story of the maneuverings that sidelined the
1998 translation approved by eleven conferences of English-speaking
bishops, criticizes the 2010 translation, and illustrates the clear
superiority of the 1998 translation, the "Missal that never was"
This is an essential introductory to liturgy for both ordinands and
trainee lay readers - indeed for anyone who finds themselves having
to plan or lead public worship. Well-known worship writer and
speaker Mark Earey has written this book both for lovers and
loathers of liturgical worship - and for those who want to discover
it for the first time. This updated and enlarged second edition now
includes: * How liturgy works as ritual; * The use of liturgy in
different traditions; * The shape of the Christian year - and what
this tells us about God's engagement with the world; * Patterns of
reading scripture in worship; using music and song; and how to use
words and silence in worship. Liturgical Worship will enthuse and
give confidence to anyone who needs to know more about this
fascinating subject.
This worship collection for Lent, Holy Week and Easter brims with
unique liturgies, prayers and resources for the most important
season of the Christian year. Chris Thorpe offers complete outlines
for a variety of services, including: - Dust and Ashes: living
mindfully on Ash Wednesday; - Who am I? Temptations for today; -
Mothering God: being there no matter what; - Wilderness: desolation
and consolation in the empty places; - Holy Week services on the
call to follow Jesus; - Learning to see again: the world made new
at Easter; - Into the Deep: daring to journey into the unknown. He
also offers advice on using space, silence and lighting creatively
to bring the central stories of the Christian faith to life.
In Awesome Glory, Abbot Jeremy Driscoll offers readers a deep dive
into the mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus. Starting from the
conviction that the liturgy is meant to be for Christians an
immediate and effective contact with the Resurrection, this
profound book draws out the riches of each celebration from the
Paschal Triduum through Pentecost. Abbot Jeremy focuses
particularly on the Scripture texts of Mass, but also on important
rituals like the washing of feet, the lucernarium, and the baptism
of catechumens. Loaded with new insights and approaches, this book
will be a welcome resource for homilists, pastors, liturgy
directors, catechists, faith formation leaders, scholars, and any
Christian adult who wants to better understand, teach, and live the
startlingly good news of Christ's Resurrection.
This book is the simplified children's version of 3Dimensional
Prayer The Ministry of Intercession. It is designed to teach
children how to pray and receive results. This book ends with many
prayers regarding things of interest to children (school, safety,
parents, etc.). While the rest of the series has activities to
assist in attaining the highest level of memory retention, the main
focus of this particular book is to teach children how to pray and
to enjoy prayer time with other children.
The Divine Liturgy of Saint James is the eucharistic rite of the
ancient Church of Jerusalem and the most ancient extant liturgy of
the Eastern Church. In recent decades, the frequency of its use has
increased throughout the Orthodox Church. This service book offers
for the first time a parallel Church Slavonic-English text,
suitable for use by clergy and servers. It also contains the Divine
Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts of the Holy Apostle James, which
is rarely served today but has been preserved in part in a few
Greek manuscripts and in full in several Georgian sources. An
introduction by Dr Vitaly Permiakov, a specialist in the Jerusalem
liturgy, presents the provenance and integrity of both ancient
Liturgical services.
All of life is liturgy. People encounter God as they live, work,
and play in human communities and as they work to sustain the
health of communities and the ground on which communities are
built. Liturgy is distilled from everyday life when we peer through
the mist and see the sacramental and spiritual dimensions of daily
actions, objects, conversations, and events. In When I in Awesome
Wonder, Jill Y. Crainshaw explores this dimension of spirituality
and celebrates the ways God's sacramental gifts and presence arise
from and return to everyday human experiences.
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