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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• Seven whole days…I can play a video game?

  
  Seven whole days — Authority: 116
  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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• 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: 132
  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: 128
  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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• Altar Girls?

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 475
  Sermon given by Rev. Peter R. Pilsner on the Fourth Sunday of Easter, April 24, 1994 Excerpt : "My reason for being sad or dismayed at this change is that I am going to miss being a spiritual father to my altar boys. I will miss that joyful experience of trying to pass on to them something of myself, my ...
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• Father Zuhlsdorf: Paul VI on the eve of the Novus Ordo

  
  SANCTE PATER — Authority: 475
  "You will hear Paul Paul’s General Audience text along with my commentary." PODCAzT
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• Gospel for Saturday, 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

  
  Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam — Authority: 441
  From: Luke 20:27-40The Resurrection of the Dead[27] There came to Him (Jesus) some Sadducees, those who say that there is no resurrection, [28] and they asked Him a question saying, "Teacher, Moses wrote for us that if a mans brother dies, having a wife but no children, the man must take the wife and raise up children ...
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• Book Review: IVPs Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy & Worship

  
  Christians in Context: from orthodoxy to orthopraxy. — Authority: 424
  I was excited to recieve this new little volume, as the latest addition to IVPs series of pocket dictionaries; the Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy & Worship. My first experience with the Pocket Dictionary of Church History sold me on this series of simple and accessible reference materials. There were many ...
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• Kids at Mass

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 435
  Subtitle might be: Boys Will Be Boys. Day before yesterday Mass at my parish was a bit of a throwback for me. Boys and girls in powder blue oxford button-downs and dark pants marched into church and sitting in the first two rows in front of me. I thought I had entered a time warp and drifted back into 2007 or 1996 or ...
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• A Thanksgiving Prayer

  
  Godspace — Authority: 126
  American Thanksgiving is less than a week away and we are all looking forward to what is fondly called Turkey Day.  It is my favourite American custom which I have embraced with great enthusiasm not just because I love good food and good fellowship but because I love the opportunity to think about what I am grateful ...
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• New Missal Translation Approved

  
  Per Christum Catholic Blog — Authority: 121
  The U.S. Bishops have approved a new translation of the Missal , which could be in use by 2011. To see basically what what the texts look like, click here (pdf) . The new translation is more faithful to the Latin, and corrects some rather free translations that many of us have wanted changed. Now that the new ...
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• Gospel for Friday, 33rd Week In Ordinary Time

  
  Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam — Authority: 441
  From: Luke 19:45-48Jesus in the Temple[45] And He (Jesus) entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold, [46] saying to them, "It is written, `My house shall be a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of robbers."[47] And He was teaching daily in the temple. The chief priests and the scribes and the ...
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• Fr. Rob Johansen...

  
  Catholic and Enjoying It! — Authority: 617
  for all your Liturgical Tractor and Chant Workshop needs.
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• This Eucharistic PEZ machine Is Just Sacrilegious

  
  Opinionated Catholic — Authority: 447
  Oh Lord. Father Z has Ohhhhhh… no. That’s just… wrong! . I love what this comment said: A sterile “dispenser” for a sterile faith. Hopefully this will never appear in a Catholic Parish.
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• Mass: The Video Game

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 435
  You decide: hoax or not? Either way it’s a hoot . If it were the 1962 Missal, the software would be much simpler: just turn it on and watch–the points would add up. The assembly need do nothing, and anything it did wouldn’t make a difference.
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• If Faith Aint "Vibrant," Is It Still Faith?

  
  The Lutheran Zephyr 2.0 — Authority: 104
  I received a post card in the mail today, announcing that The Youth and Family Institute is now Vibrant Faith Ministries .  From their press release (.pdf) : The Youth & Family Institute, a faith-based, non-profit organization committed to equipping people, households, and congregations with effective ...
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• Living into God’s Time – The Story Formed Calendar

  
  Godspace — Authority: 126
  My friend Tara Malouf has just produced an extraordinary calendar – not like your ordinary calendars that begin in January and go through the twelve months of the year as we know them but one that flows to the rhythm of the liturgical year.  It begins in Advent and follows the seasons of the year.  I love it ...
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• Suggestion on the Poll

  
  Southern Illinois Catholic — Authority: 151
  I looked at my current poll in retrospect. Lets hold off on NO responses until the last day of the poll (or after First Sunday of Advent). A "NO"is premature this week if your pastor plans on raising it on one of the next 2 Sundays. So, lets record the Yeses only right now. Then offer NO after the First Sunday in ...
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• Video – FiNews – Highlights of Traditional Mass at Lateran

  
  AirMaria.com — Authority: 511
  Ave Maria! Found this on Gloria.tv from our Mass in the Lateran Basilica on April 16, 2009, 800th anniversary of the approbation of the Rule of St Francis which took place at … this very basilica. Enjoy! Highlights from the Solemn High Mass according to the Extraordinary Form, celebrated in Saint John Lateran ...
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• Another Messy Translation: The Third Eucharistic Prayer

  
  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage — Authority: 110
  PREX EUCHARISTICA III    Vere sanctus es, Domine, et merito te laudat omnis a te condita creatura, quia per Filium tuum, Dominum nostrum Iesum Christum, Spiritus Sancti operante virtute vivificas et sanctificas universa, et populum tibi congregare non desinis, ut a solis ortu usque ...
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