of Christianity throughout the world, in countries such as Angola, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, the Philippines, Poland, Spain, the United States, Vietnam, and Zaire THE CHURCH CALENDAR AND ORGANIZATION - feast and saints' days - Sacraments - church services, offices, rites, and practices -...
The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay...
The forged community requires loyalty to cults, ideas, rites, and speeches, which cannot be understood and accessed by the surroundings without a risk to the integrity of the group. Religion, in this sense, becomes absolute in the face of fragile subjects with almost no awareness of themselves...
Louis was a pious and devout king who saw himself as the head and protector of the Catholic Church in France. He made his devotions daily regardless of where he was, following the liturgical calendar regularly.[107] Under the influence of his very religious second wife, he became much strong...
Discovering the truth, beauty, and goodness of God by creating and studying the sacred art of the Western and Eastern Rites of the Catholic Church.
through a good understanding of the rites and prayers, they should take part in the sacred action conscious of what they are doing with devotion and full collaboration.” Then, in paragraph 49, the document says, “For this reason the sacred Council, having in mind those Masses which are ce...
To further prove the point, we should note that in all the formulas of consecration in the liturgical rites of the Catholic Church, whether it is the Armenian Liturgy, the Coptic Liturgy, the Ethiopic Liturgy, the Syrian Liturgy, the Chaldean Liturgy, etc. the union of the faithful with ...
As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them. Indeed, the great mercy of God who desires that all men should be saved, and Jesus’ tenderness toward children which caused him to say:...
英文阅读##读书笔记##Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire#米兰敕令 #英文阅读##读书笔记##Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire#米兰敕令 戴克里先皇帝时期,他的亲密战友伽列里乌斯很反感基督徒。在他的反复劝说和坚持下,本不愿多生事端的戴克里先皇帝最终松口同意了全帝国范围的基督教的迫害政策,并通知了其他...
In the second half of the 19th century, the Catholic church in the United States sought to end its internal divisions and respond to the challenges of the broader world. The Second Plenary Council, held in Baltimore in 1866, addressed matters ofdisciplineand organization, emphasized the importance...