Also referred to as the “Service of the Table” or the “Eucharist”, the celebration of this sacrament is both something that sets Christianity apart from its Jewish roots, and builds on those roots. Traditional emphasis existed in the Jewish faith for partaking of food together in temple, synagogue and home. At the time of Passover, the [...]
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The Liturgy (or “service”) of the Word can be traced back to the Jewish exile following the destruction of the first Temple. By reading the scriptures, God’s chosen people could maintain their identity even in exile. With the Temple gone, these scriptural readings evolved into synagogue worship. Because the earliest Christians were predominantly Jewish, it [...] This writing is from “A Guide to Prayer for all who seek God”. I wanted to share it with you all. “We begin the seasons of the church year with anticipation, and we end the seasons of the church year declaring a certainty. In Advent we waited for the needed and longed for definitive and [...] It’s hard to pin down a real definition of these terms. In the original sense of the term High Church, what was meant was a preference for the liturgical ritual and ceremony of the Roman Catholic service — particularly the Tridentine Mass, a solemn liturgy which originated following the Council of Trent and involved a deacon [...] |
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