Ritual Practices category: 1070 books
Beyond Chrismukkah
The Christian-Jewish Interfaith Family in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
The rate of interfaith marriage in the United States has risen so radically since the sixties that it is difficult to recall how taboo the practice once was. How is this development understood and regarded by Americans generally, and what does it tell us about the nation's religious life? Drawing...
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God's presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and...
Becoming Catholic
Finding Rome in the American Religious Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Conversion has been an essential element of Christianity, and especially of Roman Catholicism, for centuries--from the Apostle Paul's dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus to the spiritual transformations of such prominent modern individuals as Cardinal Newman, St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, Thomas...
by Rebecca Park Totilo
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
If you were taught by church leaders that anointing with oil ceased during the Old Testament times, or that it is simply "symbolic" and has no power or significance today, you may be missing beauty and depth in your spiritual journey. Anointing with oil brings real benefits into your life, such as...
Chrismation
A Primer for Catholics
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
What is chrismation? Nicholas Denysenko breaks open chrismation as sacrament of belonging by exploring its history and liturgical theology. This study offers a sacramental theology of chrismation by examining its relationship with baptism and the Eucharist and its function as the ritual for receiving...
Pastoral Foundations of the Sacraments
A Catholic Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A logical presentation of the sacraments as the principle acts of worship in the Catholic church. Synthesizes contemporary research on symbol, ritual, and sacramental, liturgical, and pastoral theology into a single, readable resource. Each chapter ends with questions for reflection and discussion.
Mass 101
Liturgy and Life
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
Do you wonder why incense is used at Mass, the Alleluia disappears during certain seasons, or how the construct for the Liturgy of the Word was developed? Why do Catholics sing in Latin from time to time? What is intended in the words "the body of Christ" during the Liturgy of the Eucharist?...
by David E. Fitch
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The Lord's Supper
Reconciliation
Proclaiming the gospel
Being with the "least of these"
Being with children
Fivefold ministry gifting
Kingdom prayer
The Church of All Ages
Generations Worshiping Together
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2007
Many congregations today experience collisions between parents who ant to spend time with their children and age-segregated church programming, as well as between the children worshiping in their pews and the increasing number of seniors in the same pew. Among the questions these congregations struggle...
by Stephen Michael Newby
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
"Worship outside the Music Box" calls for Christians to set aside personal preferences, to welcome different musical and liturgical genres, to learn from each other about what pleases God, and to model His love for a multiethnic, multicultural congregation of believers. The importance of...
Ala di Mma in Umuohiagu
An Igbo Concept of Reconciliation and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
Among other relevant issues, this book adds new insights to the proposed Igbo Christian rites of reconciliation. Towards an inculturation, the resolutional equations of the Igbo cultural method of reconciliation – oriko in ala di mma – are balanced with the sacrament of reconciliation in operational...
Ever Ancient, Ever New
The Allure of Liturgy for a New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2019
For many years now, the church in North America has heard figure after figure concerning the steady flow of young people leaving the church. In the midst of these troubling figures, there remains a glimmer of hope for these youth as they transition into young adults. *Ever Ancient, Ever New *tells...
Human Rites
The Power of Rituals, Habits, and Sacraments
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
What are we doing when we gather around the sacraments— or when we make the same breakfast every morning? Embodying rituals, says Dru Johnson. And until we understand what we’re doing and why, we won’t know how these rituals work, what they mean, or how we might adapt them.
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Table Talk
Rethinking Communion and Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
For nearly two thousand years followers of Jesus have gathered in churches to eat a meal called Communion in his memory. In Table Talk, Mike Graves claims if we could travel back to those earliest Christian gatherings, we would realize we are not just two thousand years removed; we are light-years...