Quotes Tagged With :liturgy

The author chuckles at the resistance to using a prepared, written liturgy in prayer. He compares it....

Like a great waterwheel, the liturgical year goes on relentlessly irrigating our souls, softening the....

The liturgy is the place where we wait for Jesus to show up. We don't have to do much. The liturgy is....

We throw ourselves down, as Jesus did, before the mystery of God's power present to us, knowing that....

Mystical experience needs some form of dogma in order not to dissipate into moments of spiritual intensity....

Liturgy gathers the holy community as it reads the Holy Scriptures into the sweeping tidal rhythms of....

The Church acknowledges Gregorian chant as specially suited to the Roman liturgy: therefore, other things....

The music, the prayers, the bowing and rising, the incense--all of it was breaking down my defenses.....

The liturgy is the summit toward which the activity of the Church is directed; at the same time it is....

What it leads to is the mischief of confusing liturgy with magic -- of imagining there are only a handful....