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Flee, Be Silent, Pray
Ancient Prayers for Anxious Christians
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
What if prayer could be simple rather than strenuous?
Anxious, results-driven Christians can never pray enough, serve enough, or study enough. But what if God is calling us not to frenzied activity but to a simple spiritual encounter? What if we must merely receive what God has already given...
Conflicts of Devotion
Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Who will mourn with me? Who will break bread with me? Who is my neighbor? In the wake of the religious reformations of the sixteenth century, such questions called for a new approach to the communal religious rituals and verses that shaped and commemorated many of the brightest and darkest moments...
Fiesta Cristiana, Recursos para la Adoración
Resources for Worship
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2003
Fiesta Cristiana is a bilingual collection of worship services that can be used with Hispanic congregations. Fiesta Cristiana not only contains traditional worship services, but also features services special to the Hispanic culture.
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
The ongoing debates on the present state and the future of the Roman Catholic worship are not confined to specialists, but are clearly of interest to a wider public, as the responses to the Sacra Liturgia UK conference, held in London in July 2016, have shown.
This volume contains the proceedings...
Care for the Church and Its Liturgy
A Study of Summorum Pontificum and the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Rite
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
In July 2007, Pope Benedict XVI issued Summorum Pontificum, designating two "uses" or "forms" of the Roman Rite, declaring the Missal of Paul VI to be the "ordinary form" and the 1962 Missal of John XXIII to be its "extraordinary form." On the same day, the...
The Prayers of the New Missal
A Homiletic and Catechetical Companion
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
After the publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition, much attention was given to the catechesis of the clergy and the faithful on the Order of Mass, which contains the chief theological and spiritual elements of the eucharistic celebration. In The Prayers of the New Missal, Anscar J. Chupungco...
The Worship Workshop
Creative Ways to Design Worship Together
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
The Worship Workshop, rather than providing simply another manual for doing worship, offers instead an interactive workshop that helps worship teams develop more meaningful and memorable worship for the congregation. By combining liturgical history and the creative process, The Worship Workshop encourages...
Liturgy of the Ordinary
Sacred Practices in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
In the overlooked moments and routines of our day, we can become aware of God's presence in surprising ways. How do we embrace the sacred in the ordinary and the ordinary in the sacred? Framed around one ordinary day, this book explores daily life through the lens of liturgy, small practices, and...
Creative Church Handbook
Releasing the Power of the Arts in Your Congregation
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2015
Mobilizing and managing artists and other creatives in your congregation
Establishing structures and parameters for arts ministry
Leading and supporting staff and church members in creative changes
Enhancing the worship service
Adding creative elements to your sermons
Engaging the broader community
Imagine That
Discovering Your Unique Role as a Christian Artist
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2009
Why are we artists? How does God experience art? What is the artist’s calling in relation to God, the church, and the world?
Drawing from his experiences performing Mozart, playing “dive bars", and leading worship and the arts in the church, author Manuel Luz seeks to answer the...
by Hayes Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
The closing words of the Lord Jesus to the eleven disciples on are all-important for all time.
‘And Jesus came and said to them, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of...
Way of the Cross
Uniting Our Sufferings to Christ
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2017
This Way of the Cross provides sensitive and thoughtful meditations on the extent of Christ’s sufferings. A prayerful and centuries-old devotion, it encourages us to learn the lessons of Jesus’ Passion, and like him, find our peace in the Father’s will. On this journey with Christ on his Calvary,...
Way Ahead
Grown-up Christians
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2006
This is a book for anyone who cares about where the church is heading. Will the Christian church live or die? Perhaps it will live - if it has the courage and humility to take Ian Fraser's inclusive message to heart. '... challenges all people of God to see
Christ's Gift, Our Response
Martin Luther and Louis-Marie Chauvet on the Connection between Sacraments and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Sacramental theology has often been a challenging area of conversation between Catholics and Protestants. In Christ’s Gift, Our Response, Benjamin Durheim envisions a collaborative way forward, forging a conversation between two contemporary approaches to the connection between sacraments and ethics.
Drawing...