From his 1945 book, The Shape of the Liturgy, by the English Anglican Benedictine monk, Dom Gregory Dix is writing about the action Christ had told his friends to do henceforth with the new meaning “for the anamnesis (remembering) of him”; (usually people quote the first paragraph here – it is, however, worth reading the
A recent study, reported in the media here, says: The social media replaced the church as the place many Christchurch people went to for support after the region’s earthquakes, a University of Canterbury lecturer says. Ekant Veer, a senior lecturer in marketing, said Christchurch residents turned to the social media for help and information after
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The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) defined God as “eternal and immeasurable, almighty, unchangeable, incomprehensible and ineffable“. [Reinforced by the First Vatican Council] in·ef·fa·ble [in-ef-uh-buhl] adjective 1. incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible. 2. not to be spoken because of its sacredness; unutterable. in·com·pre·hen·si·ble [in-kom-pri-hen-suh-buhl] adjective 1. impossible to understand or comprehend; unintelligible.
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Divine Liturgy (Greek: θεία λειτουργία, Georgian: საღმრთო ლიტურგია, Bulgarian: Божествена литургия, Russian: Божественная литургия, Armenian: պատարակ, Serbian: Света Литургија, Romanian: Sfânta Liturghie) is the common term for the for the Christian service with bread and wine in the Byzantine tradition. It is used in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches. Armenian Christians, both of
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Breaking news: The Olympic Organising Committee has waited until the 2012 Olympics were concluded to announce that for future olympics they want to do something different. Because of the particular approach and expertise of my church in liturgy, the Anglican Church of Or has been contracted to run future olympics. The contract will last for
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The Torah reading in the synagogue this Sabbath is Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 Rosh Chodesh is two days – today and tomorrow, beginning the month of Elul (אֱלוּל). If you count from Tishri, then that is the last month of the year. Rosh Chodesh Elul is the beginning of a forty day “Season of Teshuvah” that culminates
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The story of the Guru’s cat is worth repeating: When the guru sat down to worship each evening, the ashram cat would get in the way and distract the worshipers. So he ordered that the cat be tied during evening worship. After the guru died the cat continued to be tied during evening worship. And
It was inevitable, as I hinted, that my post on chaos about liturgy rules and agreements would result in questioning why have these agreements at all? Why have common prayer? And in one version of the question: can’t we have some flexibility in liturgy? Let’s deal with the flexibility question first. It’s a straw man.
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