Ritual category: 1070 books
by Middendorf, Jesse C.
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The Church Ritual Handbook provides pastors with a meaningful tool for the services they perform as shepherds of the flock of God. Covering a wide array of services, from less common rituals to the more known practices, this updated and expanded edition gives pastors immediate practical helps to service...
by Bruce T. Morrill, SJ
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Draws upon the best of recent biblical, historical, and theological sources to explore how Christ is present in the celebration of the Eucharist in the assembly, presiding minister, biblical word, and ritual sacrament.
Days of Death, Days of Life
Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2005
Kristin Norget explores the practice and meanings of death rituals in poor urban neighborhoods on the outskirts of the southern Mexican city of Oaxaca. Drawing on her extensive fieldwork in Oaxaca City, Norget provides vivid descriptions of the Day of the Dead and other popular religious practices....
Stations of the Light
Renewing the Ancient Christian Practice of the Via Lucis as a Spiritual Tool for Today
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This is the first book to introduce the fourteen joyful and highly symbolic events that make up the Via Lucis, the Christian Way of Light, an ancient spiritual tradition celebrating the post-Resurrection life of Christ on Earth.
The Stations of the Light, with its “good news” of healing...
by Yashi Nozawa
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2014
A non-fiction brief history of Christmas and associated interesting problems. The author treated the subject as a simple historical event of his research object, so this book is not a religious book as its title might suggest. The first chapter focuses on discovering the origin of a Christmas celebration...
Ancient Christian Worship
Early Church Practices in Social, Historical, and Theological Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
An Important Study on the Worship of the Early Church
This introduction to the origins of Christian worship illuminates the importance of ancient liturgical patterns for contemporary Christian practice. Andrew McGowan takes a fresh approach to understanding how Christians came to worship in...
Mystagogy of the Eucharist
A Resource for Faith Formation
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
Explore the deeper meaning of Eucharistic celebration with a highly regarded expert on liturgy. In Mystagogy of the Eucharist Gilbert Ostdiek, OFM, draws on ritual actions, liturgical symbols, prayer texts, and reflective commentary to help participants in the liturgy name and reflect on the meaning...
by Stuart Christie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Stuart Christie looks at the history and power base of the ‘Brotherhood’— the West’s largest secret society. If secrecy is to be considered a factor in British politics and commerce then without doubt Freemasonry is one of its principal vehicles. Freemasonry is the largest semi-covert organisation...
Mighty Stories, Dangerous Rituals
Weaving Together the Human and the Divine
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2019
Shaping our journey into the Divine
This moving and enlightening book presents us with a compelling vision of what can happen when we take the opportunity to connect stories and rituals--a vision of individuals and communities transformed through a deeper sense of connection to our loved ones,...
What Every Christian Needs to Know About Passover
What It Means and Why It Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2015
The Passover was celebrated by Jesus and the disciples the last time they were together. Now popular speaker and writer Rabbi Evan Moffic brings an understanding to the Last Supper that will forever change how Christians celebrate Communion and prepare for Easter. Beginning with the Hebrew Bible and...
by John Howard Yoder
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Binding and loosing, baptism, eucharist, multiplicity of gifts, and open meeting; these five New Testament practices were central in the life of the early Christian community. Some of them are still echoed in the practice of the church today. But the full social, ethical, and communal meaning of the...
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...