Roman Missal
From cover to cover, this book is full of imaginative, read-to-use liturgies, prayers and service outlines for the Christian year from one of the most creative and poetic voices in the church today. This collection includes themed complete worship outlines for: - Pentecost: finding a language of love in a world of strangers and restoring community; - Trinity: knowing that we belong and are loved; - Ordinary Time: journeying in faith, venturing out, encountering storms, not losing heart, replen...
Common Worship Lectionary
by Uk International Bible Society and Board Of Finance Of The Cofe
The only Anglicised New International Version of the Common Worship Lectionary. This pew edition is now available in paperback and is ideal for use in church or for private use. Adapted for the Church of England, this three year lectionary is sanctioned officially for use by individuals and churches. It begins in Advent and contains the following readings for the Principal Sunday Service: * First reading (usually Old Testament) * Psalm * Second Reading * Gospel All readings are in the popular N...
Father Anscar Chupungco fondly recalls his first class as a student at the Pontifical Liturgical Institute in 1965. Professor Salvatore Marsili 'famed theologian, liturgist, and cofounder of the institute 'entered the lecture hall, and after a prolonged and awkward silence finally asked, And so, what is liturgy?" This seemingly simple question underlies Chupungco's untiring love for liturgy and his lifetime of searching for answers. His is a passion deeply rooted in tradition, which is evident...
Further Essays in Early Eastern Initiation
by Dr. Paul F. Bradshaw and Juliette Day
The two authors who come together to present this Study are well-known experts in their field of patristic liturgy, and not least for their work on early Eastern initiation rites. Paul Bradshaw is known for his researches and scholarly writing across the whole range of patristic liturgy, including not only baptismal, eucharistic and ordination rites, but also the origins of daily offices and the roots of the liturgical year. Within this series of Joint Liturgical Studies he provided no 2 in 19...
Gender Differences and the Making of Liturgical History (Liturgy, Worship and Society)
by Professor Teresa Berger
Mapping uncharted territory in the study of liturgy's past, this book offers a history to contemporary questions around gender and liturgical life. Teresa Berger looks at liturgy's past through the lens of gender history, understood as attending not only to the historically prominent binary of "men" and "women" but to all gender identities, including inter-sexed persons, ascetic virgins, eunuchs, and priestly men. Demonstrating what a gender-attentive inquiry is able to achieve, Berger explores...