Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language. — Hans Kung Copy Share Image
“I often think of the set pieces of liturgy as certain words which people have successfully addressed to God without their getting… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of… — John Geddes Copy Share Image
In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love. — James K. A. Smith Copy Share Image
We cannot build up the idea of the apostolate of the laity without the foundation of the liturgy. — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
One day, a leopard stalked into the synagogue, roaring and lashing its tail. Three weeks later, it had become part of the… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“God Himself teaches us to go forward with our hand in His by means of the Church’s liturgy.” — Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross Copy Share Image
“Above all, enter into the Church’s liturgy and make the liturgical cycle part of your life—let its rhythm work its way into… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Persecution always acts as a jell for members of cults; it proves to them, in the absence of history, liturgy, tradition, and… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
We look about in puzzlement at our world, with a sense of unease and disquiet. We think of ourselves as scholars in… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I'm very eclectic, musically as in other things! But also to frame the hearing and knowing of Scripture within a context of… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
I thought some of the stories were neat; I liked some of the liturgy and some of the songs. If you're a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Both liturgy and what is euphemistically termed 'domestic work' also have an intense relation with the present moment, a kind of faith… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given,… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“You have made us to be free, But we crave the cheap comforts of our chains. You have made us to serve… — Ecclesia Catholica Copy Share Image
Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
In relation to the earth we have been autistic for centuries. Only now have we begun to listen with some attention and… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Our Children no longer learn how to read the great book of Nature from their own direct experience, or how to interact… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“It is a simple test, but an immediate one: for the doctrine of the Trinity, of the Incarnation, of human sin and… — Andrew Louth Copy Share Image
Since Moses was in Egypt land, Gods people have been struggling for justice while singing freedom songs. Theology can be clarifying. A… — Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove Copy Share Image
Even though the discples were not aware of it, the presence was with them while they were reviewing the scriptures together on… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A verse of Scripture in the morning, may become a blessing for all the day. It may sing in the heart as… — J.R. Miller Copy Share Image
“Liturgy is the means that the church uses to keep baptized Christians in living touch with the entire living holy community as… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of the church year in which… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the ground of our hearts, nourishing the soil… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
“The Church has not built up the “Opus Dei” for the pleasure of forming beautiful symbols, choice language, and graceful, stately gestures,… — Romano Guardini Copy Share Image
“The task of liturgy is to order the life of the holy community following the text of Holy Scripture. It consists of… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“There is however, one reason why the arts so rarely accept a mission that IS within the power of the Church to… — Aidan Nichols O.P Copy Share Image
“The liturgy of the Eucharist is best understood as a journey or procession. It is the journey of the Church into the… — Alexander Schmemann Copy Share Image
“Liturgy puts us to work along with all the others who have been and are being put to work in the world… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
“Morning Time...is a liturgy. It is a habit that ties the past to the future—a liturgy of love.” — Cindy Rollins Copy Share Image
all mankind, not excluding Americans, are sinners--miserable sinners, as even no few Bostonians themselves nowadays contritely respond in the liturgy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The Liturgy itself is prayer; the confession of faith finds its proper place in the celebration of worship.” — The Catholic Church Copy Share Image
