Liturgy

Liturgy is a public rite, or ritual, of worship. The Internet, now a resource for the devout as well as the spiritual seeker, offers background information on the general history of liturgy as well as the specific liturgies practiced by various religious bodies. In common usage, "liturgy" refers to an historical, traditional form of Christian worship, although other religions have liturgical practices, too.

Bosco Peters, an Anglican priest in New Zealand, offers this liturgy Web site, which has dozens of links on historical worship. Taylor Marshall, a former Episcopal priest and convert to Roman Catholicism, often addresses liturgical worship on his blog.

The editors of LiturgicalCredo.com have often argued in favor of liturgical worship on its blog and in its main articles on liturgy and the creeds.

Some works of classical music have been based on liturgical worship, including Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom.

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• Church History in Four Minutes & Quaker Dance Party

  
  zoecarnate — Authority: 502
  It isn’t perfect, but it’s fun: This church produced the video below; the story is told here and here . HT: Liturgy NZ And I discovered video below via Martin Kelley ’s Convergent Friends Ning network (Ning networks are awesome!); Jon Watts is a spoken word artist and multipreneur; his music ...
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• Well, I never expected this

  
  progressive involvement — Authority: 139
  Stephen Colbert tries liturgical dance.
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• Prayer

  
  The Website of Unknowing — Authority: 497
  I’m currently reading three books on prayer: Prayer: Conversing with God by Rosalind Rinker. A classic evangelical book from the 1950s about developing greater intimacy and faith in God through unscripted, conversational prayer. Praying Our Experiences by Joseph F. Schmidt. A guide to discerning the prayerful ...
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• Book of Common Prayer for iphone

  
  Communicate Jesus — Authority: 121
  I had never been much of a fan of liturgy but two years of working in an Anglican church has slowly changed my opinion. There are good reasons to use liturgy, including: it’s a way of preserving and communicating doctrinal truth, the wording is clear, elegant (for want of a better word!) and memorable, it ...
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• RCIA 219: Presentation of the Candidates

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 433
  The rite gives three options for presenting the candidates for baptism. With eminent Roman pragmatism, and choices and some of the rubrics are as follows: 219. … A When Baptism Is Celebrated Immediately at the Baptismal Font The celebrant accompanied by the assisting ministers goes directly to the font. An ...
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• He Will Come Again in Glory to Judge

  
  Southern Illinois Catholic — Authority: 152
  The living and the dead. How the "spirit of Vatican II" crowd hate that idea of Last Things, judgment and triumph.Yesterday was the Feast of Christ the King, the last Sunday of the liturgical year. Interesting, and deliberately of course, how Mother Church asks us these past few weeks whether we are ready to meet ...
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• Worship Idea – 9 Lessons Loops by Proost

  
  Robb's Blog — Authority: 112
  Jon Birch has done some wonderful animated 9 Lessons and Carols loops available at Proost. Animated thumbnail here .
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• Gospel for Monday, 34th Week in Ordinary Time

  
  Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam — Authority: 440
  From: Luke 21:1-4The Widows Mite[1] He (Jesus) looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts into the treasury; [2] and He saw a poor widow put in two copper coins. [3] And He said, "Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them; [4] for they all contributed out of their abundance, but she out of ...
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• Forty Years of "New Order" Mass

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 504
  1969 - 2009 Orbis Catholicus Secundus PODCAzT 94: PART II - 40 years ago… Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo PODCAzT 93: 40 years ago… Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo
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• Archbishop Vigneron Leads Pro-life Prayer Vigil in Detroit

  
  The Curt Jester — Authority: 553
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• Worship Service Order Written in Stone

  
  Thinking Out Loud — Authority: 129
  The church we visited this week incorporates a rather bizarre mixture of informality and tradition.    By that I don’t mean that they blend contemporary and liturgical forms; no, that would be welcome.    Instead, there is a very specific order of worship from which there has never — in the last 15 years — ...
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• RCIA 218: Celebration of Baptism

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 433
  This and the following posts will cover the rubrics and texts of the initiation rites. I plan to post the rubrics in some, though not complete detail. I’ll add some of the prayers where they illustrate certain principles in the rites. Today, a short rubric that emphasizes visibility for the assembly: 218. T he ...
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• Novena Prayer to Christ the King

  
  OTWOMD | Bluepanjeet.Net — Authority: 125
  In celebration of official end of the Liturgy for 2009, OTWOMD brings you this Novena Prayer to Christ the King in wherein we celebrate today the solemnity our Lord’s Kingship over heaven and earth and throughout the Universe.NOVENA PRAYER TO CHRIST THE KINGRecite One Our Father, One Hail Mary and One Glory Be per ...
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• Litany to Christ the King

  
  OTWOMD | Bluepanjeet.Net — Authority: 125
  In celebration of official end of the Liturgy for 2009, OTWOMD brings you this Litany to Christ the King in wherein we celebrate today the solemnity our Lord’s Kingship over heaven and earth and throughout the Universe.LITANY TO CHRIST THE KINGLord, have mercy on us, Lord, have mercy on us.Christ, have mercy on us, ...
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• Seven whole days…I can play a video game?

  
  Seven whole days — Authority: 118
  Doh! I had a little something sitting in my blogpile, planning to post tomorrow. But I’ve been scooped by the Liturgy blog. Well, I won’t be bitter. Go visit the most excellent blog kept by my online friend, Bosco Peters. Anyway, this video popped up on the interwebs a few places. It’s great fun. Sadly, if ...
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• Clarity in Blessings: A Comparison of the Extraordinary and Ordinary Forms of the Roman Ritual – Part 1 of 3

  
  Musings of a Pertinacious Papist — Authority: 421
  Tridentine Community News (November 22, 2009): Which of the following fits your concept of a blessing better? Extraordinary Form ℣. Our help is in the name of the Lord. ℟. Who made heaven and earth. ℣. The Lord be with you. ℟. And with your spirit. Let us pray. O God, whose word suffices to make all ...
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• Purity Solutions

  
  Seven whole days — Authority: 118
  No, this title is not some kind of reference to Dr. Strangelove . It is rather the name of a company which makes equally comical and profoundly insidious products. What are these products? Well, my friends, they are the latest expressions of our culture’s obsession with fear. This company wants you to be afraid ...
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• Evening - The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary - November 21st, 2009

  
  Traditional Latin Mass in Maryland — Authority: 141
  A Priest Life >> "Sarahs Choice": pro-woman, pro-life and pro-family Insight Scoop >> Custodians of beauty in the world Meeting Christ in the Liturgy >> Solemnity of CHRIST THE KING Mulier Fortis >> Requiem At St. Marys (YouTube slide show of Requiem Mass) ...
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• Prayer and Survival

  
  a minor friar — Authority: 131
  For better or for worse--and I honestly dont know if its one or the other or both--passages like this one from The Seven Storey Mountain have had a lasting and formative effect on me: It was no longer possible to consider myself, abstractly, as being in a certain "state of life" which had certain technical ...
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• Pope Benedict XVIs Address to Artists

  
  Psalm 46:11 - A Journey to Truth — Authority: 130
  Today the Holy Father met in the Sistine Chapel with artists from around the world, and addressed to them words of encouragement, continuing with one of the themes of his pontificate, that of the recapturing of the sense of beauty in the world, especially the sense of sacred beauty as it applies to the path towards ...
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