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.

by Colin Foote Burch Are you a writer, passionate about this or any other topic? Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “liturgy”

• More advent resources

  
  outside is better — Authority: 115
  After spending more time reading Webbers "Ancient-Future Time", I ran across two pieces that would be handy to use in designing worship during advent.  Both of these are from the chapter on advent. 1.  From the Rorate Caeli : We have gone astray; in the multitude of our sings we have been made unclean. Fallen, ...
  2 hours ago

• what kind of bread and wine

  
  jonnybaker — Authority: 124
  what kind of bread and wine - from third space , a small missional community in matlock - worship trick 74 in the third series . small missional communities seems to be an area that is growing in interest and practice. i mentioned a while back that ian adams has been writing a series on getting one started - ...
  9 hours ago

• Pattern-based Worship: The loop vs. the line.

  
  Sound and Silence — Authority: 108
  One of the major features of the modern era, from which we are currently emerging, is linearity.  This is propped up by the “myth of progress” wherein all history moves towards the future through Greek conceptions of time – telos (purpose) and chronos (linear time) – expressed though our systemising of ...
  9 hours ago

• Virgin Mary Accused of Incest by Befuddled American Bishops

  
  Joseph S. O'Leary homepage — Authority: 103
  The Roman Canon (Eucharistic Prayer I) is a prayer loved by all Catholic priests. It was well translated by ICEL back in the late 1960s, and they explained the rationale of their translation, line by line, in a booklet published at the time. It remains one of the more successful and prayable sections of the current ...
  14 hours ago

• The Evangelical Liturgy 22: The Benediction

  
  internetmonk.com — Authority: 639
  We’re nearing the end of this series. I’m very honored by all of you who have stayed along for the entire ride. I hope that someone has given consideration to the lost glory of the Protestant liturgical tradition and the many wonderful Biblical, Gospel and ecumenical connections that are possible in ...
  16 hours ago

• RCIA 210: Prayer over the Water

  
  Catholic Sensibility — Authority: 133
  When we last left the Christian Initiation rites, we were deep into the explanatory sections on the Easter Vigil. Tonight, we look at one of the long narratives in the Baptism rite: 209. The celebration of baptism begins with the blessing of water, even when the sacraments of initiation are received outside the ...
  17 hours ago

• Accurate Translation of the Propers of Holy Mass

  
  Musings of a Pertinacious Papist — Authority: 422
  Tridentine Community News (November 8, 2009): Much press has been given in recent months to the forthcoming new translation of the Ordinary Form Missal. Even though the Vatican has made clear its intention that a new English translation be created which is more faithful to the original Latin, certain prelates ...
  22 hours ago

• Special Need for the Slavic Reformation Society

  
  Reformed Liturgical Institute — Authority: 106
  From the chairman of the Slavic Reformation Society:“Greetings in the Lord Jesus Christ! As chairman of the Board of the Slavic Reformation Society, I wanted to give you a year-end update on our ministry in Russia. In September, ten pastors from Russia, the Ukraine and Kazakhstan attended our pastors’ training ...
  1 day ago

• The Genevan Psalter Resource Center

  
  Reformed Liturgical Institute — Authority: 106
  The Genevan Psalter Resource Center - “This website is intended as a center for resources and information relating to the Genevan Psalter, including any and all articles, sheet music, recordings, books, websites and metrical translations based on it.”
  1 day ago

• Liturgical Correctness

  
  de ecclesia et liturgia on Church and Liturgy — Authority: 110
  Originally posted at BOC Online: Often the use of "liturgical correctness" in describing how a congregation practices worship is a criticism. What really is "liturgical correctness"? Such terminology is often left to perception since there are a variety of liturgical practices even among those who otherwise are quite ...
  1 day ago

• The Churching of Women

  
  Tea at Trianon — Authority: 505
  A beautiful and ancient tradition that is slowly being revived .
  1 day ago

• Dies Irae

  
  V for Victory! — Authority: 463
  November 8th is the day on which the Order of Preachers remembers and prays for its deceased members. Today at 7:00 p.m. the Bl. Margaret of Castello chapter will recite the Office of the Dead (Vespers) for deceased Dominicans in the day chapel at St. Johns Cathedral in Boise. We will begin by chanting Dies Irae ...
  1 day ago

• Beware those religious leaders!

  
  Sarx — Authority: 428
  Ruth 3:1-5; 4:13-17 Psalm 127 1 Kings 17:8-16 Psalm 146 Hebrews 9:24-28 Mark 12:38-44 Year B Proper 27 (32) Revised Common Lectionary Today’s lesson: there are no verses, chapters, paragraphs or, even, punctuation in the original text. If you’ve spent any time in Church, you know how this Gospel sermon ...
  1 day ago

• An Annotated Advent Bibliography

  
  outside is better — Authority: 115
  This week I have started to do some planning for our Advent services at Asbury Seminary for next month.  A quick trip to the library for some resources both excited and disappointed me. While Advent has been getting press over the last few years (mainly through the great Advent Conspiracy movement), I was ...
  2 days ago

• Progress report

  
  Musings of a Pertinacious Papist — Authority: 422
  " Una Voces report upon the second anniversary of Summorum Pontificum " (Rorate Caeli, November 5, 2009): The Foederatio Internationalis Una Voce recently issued a progress report on the second anniversary of Pope Benedict XVIs motu proprio Summorum Pontificum . The full report extends to 95 pages. FIUVs executive ...
  2 days ago

• Surprise: Priest hunts free of moral conflict

  
  Stella Borealis Catholic Roundtable — Authority: 133
  . When Christopher Wenthe was an electrical engineer and single, living in the Twin Cities, he had lots of time to hunt and fish. The deer opener, like the duck and pheasant openers, wasnt something he squeezed in between meetings. Or homilies. Now that he is a Catholic priest with 850 families to tend to, time ...
  2 days ago

• Changes in the language of the liturgy

  
  Stella Borealis Catholic Roundtable — Authority: 133
  . One of the principal goals of the Second Vatican Council was to initiate a reform of the Sacred Liturgy. The goal of this reform was not a matter of simply revising texts. Even less was it a matter of abandoning the treasured traditions of the past. Rather, at its heart, the liturgical reform of the council was a ...
  2 days ago

• Meet Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori in Bethlehem, Lebanon or Wilkes-Barre

  
  DioBeth newSpin — Authority: 128
  EpiscopalChurch Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori will make her first visit tothe Diocese of Bethlehem next week. There will be several opportunities to hearher speak and to dialogue with her. Featuredevents during her visit will be Evensong at 6:00 p.m., during which she willpreach, followed by a ...
  3 days ago

• Recommendation and Review: Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship by Brett Scott Provance

  
  internetmonk.com — Authority: 639
  I used to look at the big Dictionaries of Liturgy and wonder if they were worth all that money. I held onto my dollars and spent years not knowing what a collect was.You don’t have to live in this kind of humiliation. IVP has published the Pocket Dictionary of Liturgy and Worship by Brett Scott [...]
  3 days ago

• Thoughts on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

  
  AirMaria.com — Authority: 484
  Ave Maria Meditations The Eucharistic sacrifice and the ordinary life of the Christian. The Second Vatican Council reminds us that the sacrifice of the Cross and its sacramental renewal in the Mass are, apart from the difference in the manner of offering, one and the same sacrifice of ...
  4 days ago

Comments about liturgy