34 Quotes About Liturgy
- Author Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger
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Thus [the altar] brings heaven into the community assembled on earth, or rather it takes the community beyond itself into the communion of saints of all times and places. We might put it this way: the altar is the place where heaven is opened up.
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- Author Angela Doll Carlson
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When I am away from Liturgy for too long, I find I burn for it now, for the steadiness of the calendar, the words" that ring out in repetition, the heavy scented air. When I return each week, I am coming home again. Liturgy is written into my flesh, sinking into my skin and my spirit.
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- Author Ernst Walter Zeeden
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Since in fact liturgical traditions, vestments, church vessels, etc., were immediately removed wherever Calvinism infiltrated or Reformed ideas even gained influence in the church's polity, the reaction which it caused in Lutheran areas was a conscious propensity for ceremonies. Henceforth, therefore, the celebration of an emphatically liturgical service was among the visible signs by which the Lutheran character of confession was demonstrated outwardly.
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- Author Tish Harrison Warren
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...small bits of our day are profoundly meaningfulbecause they are the site of our worship. The crucible of our formation is in the monotony of our daily routines.
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- Author N.T. Wright
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Good Christian liturgy is friendship in action, love taking thought, the covenant relationship between God and his people not simply discovered and celebrated like the sudden meeting of friends, exciting and worthwhile though that is, but thought through and relished, planned and prepared -- an ultimately better way for the relationship to grow and at the same time a way of demonstrating what the relationship is all about.
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- Author Angela Doll Carlson
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Sometimes, late at night, the words are only whispers– Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God. The quiet is kindness and gratitude and calm–Have mercy on me, a sinner. And I fall asleep like that, the words of the Jesus Prayer melting from English to Greek– Kyrie Iesou Christe. Floating around me– Yie tou Theou. Swimming apart from me– Eleison me.
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- Author Benedicto XVI
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Del gesto de revestirse se pone de manifiesto el acontecimiento interior y la tarea que de él deriva: revestirse de Cristo, entregarse a él como Él se entregó a nosotros.
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- Author John Geddes
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...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
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- Author Pope Paul VI
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In accordance with the centuries-old tradition of the Latin rite, the Latin language is to be retained by clerics in the divine office.
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