The Mass is the highest form of worship in the Catholic Church. 4 Liturgy Collective participation in prayer. The congregation participates in the liturgy with deep faith. 4 Mass Mass is both a property of a physical body and a measure of its resistance to acceleration (rate of change of ve...
It is an important history book as well as a piece of literary work. Alfred’s third contribution is that he created a style of Anglo-Saxon prose which was not obscure. 871年,阿尔弗雷德成了威赛克斯之王,他对英国文学的贡献包括以下三个方面:①一些具有教育价值的拉丁文书籍被翻译成西撒克逊方言。
One catechism describes Advent spirituality beautifully: “When the Church celebrates the liturgy of Advent each year, she makes present this ancient expectancy of the Messiah, for by sharing in the long preparation for the Savior’s first coming, the faithful renew their ardent desire for his sec...
Unity, Not Uniformity: What the Vernacular Liturgy Says about the ChurchMarch 7, 1965, came to be known as Bloody Sunday in the civil-rights movement, as peaceful...Ferrone, Rita
October 3 is the thirtieth anniversary of my ordination to the Ministry of Word and Sacrament in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) I’ve been reflecting on that a bit, because thirty years of anything seems like a long time, but here I am much to my amazement. So I’ve been thinking...
Orthodox Christianity, a subset of Christianity, specifically refers to the Eastern Orthodox Church. It emerged from the schism between the Eastern and Western Christian churches in the 11th century. Orthodox Christianity places a strong emphasis on tradition, liturgy, and the authority of ecumenical ...
In churchy news… I would like to have been at this conference. In fact, I would have gone had I KNOWN about it. “The root of evil is not clericalism, whatever that may be, but the rejection of truth and moral licentiousness” (Gerhard Ludwig Cardinal Müller in a homily at a cler...
In churchy news, I suppose the big deal today is the appointment of a new Archbishop for Washington DC. Perhaps this is La Befana’s gift for Epiphany? I had figured that this one might go to New York when the present locum tenens has been relieved. My first thought was that this was...
It’s counterintuitive, but this mutating 2-bit virus of a style is the closest thing metal has to a soul. RAUL, out of New York, is another one of the rare groups to grasp this paradox. They’ve performed the kind of weird alchemy necessary to separate the ding as sich of the ...
On tracker actions, a special feature of coupled keyboards is that the keys from the keyboard that is not played by the organist, come down by themselves, as if a phantom was playing.Time passed and music evolved, there was a style of music where some notes had to be held for long per...