The Lavabo refers to the washing of hands normally prior to leading the Eucharistic Prayer. This is the first post in a short series looking at this practice. I decided to write this post after a priest told me of criticism from some people when the priest had taken up the practice after reading my
An unprecedented documentary of life on the Holy Mountain, a place rarely seen, where prayer has been offered every day for more than a thousand years. I have had the blessing of being there.
I am not attempting any sort of summary, reporting, or full analysis of World Youth Day in Rio. There are plenty of other places where you can find this. I don’t think numbers are by any means everything, but they are not nothing. So I do want to start by underlining that about a million
The Septuagint (LXX) has come up recently on this site. It is worth expanding what this refers to. This is the translation into Koine Greek of the Jewish scriptures and other texts now not included by Jews in their canon. This was done before Christ. Let me be the devil’s divine advocate for a moment:
I was speaking to a Polish couple in a cafe recently. They both had a wedding ring on. On their right hand. We started chatting about that, and it led me to do some research: In Austria, Chile, Colombia, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Denmark, India, Norway, Poland, Russia, Spain, and Venezuela the wedding ring is worn
The photo on the left is that of a Baptist minister. I’m sorry, I’ll read that again: The photo on the left is that of a Baptist minister. This is Malkhaz Songulashvili, the leader of the Evangelical Baptist Church of Georgia (EBCG). Here’s how Alexander Cuttino, an American pastor, recently described worship in a EBCG
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 In a move that has taken many by surprise Pope Benedict XVI and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams today signed an agreement on sacraments in cyberspace. The document, In recognitionem sacramenta in virtualis mundi (IRSIVM), has been years in the preparation. Theologians were caught out by the rapid growth of cyberspace and the
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