Ritual Practices category: 1070 books

To be a "Worship Leader" is to have a unique calling. Those who are not involved with the worship ministry many times misunderstand the role and function of a worship leader. Sometimes, the worship leader misunderstands their role, themselves.Worship ministry has expanded from being just song and...

Find Your Way to Greater Closeness with God Jeff Deyo invites you into a conversation about worship in a book that was written for anyone seeking to experience the Lord in a deeper way. Does God’s presence seem distant? Do you have a friend who has grown numb to the things of God?...

For a genuine Christian Holy Communion is a double-edged sword. It must be taken worthily on regular basis. If you take it worthily you reap the benefits. If you take it without discernment you can fall sick. If you don’t take it at all you are disobeying a direct commandment of the Lord Jesus Christ...

“Le forme del sacro. La performance del rito romano” è lo sviluppo ulteriore della tesi di laurea che l’autore ha discusso nel 2011 presso l’Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Brescia. Il testo è una ricerca antropologica che vuole analizzare la ritualità cattolica, comparando la...

By Dwayne Moore Experience deep, authentic worship... Sometimes worship feels like it’s on autopilot. This nine-week study inspires new passion and understanding of what genuine worship looks and feels like. Each lesson encourages you to turn to the Bible while allowing your heart and mind to meditate...

Introduction to EScreenEScreen is a unique form of book style. It is written as a modified screen play format so as to accommodate electronic reading devices.Logline - The Second Coming is fraught with problems as the newly arrived Savior encounters numerous comical dilemmas while seeking...

The publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition offers an opportunity for homilists to explore the relationship between the Sunday readings and the new Roman Missal. Between the Ambo and the Altar is the final book (Year C) in a three-volume series that presents scriptural, liturgical, and preaching...

Preaching the Principal Festivals focuses homiletically on the six primary theological festivals of the church year, sometimes described as the principal festivals: Christmas, Epiphany, Easter, Ascension, Pentecost, and Holy Trinity. Central to the complicated development of lectionaries over the...

Paul Bradshaw, one of the world's foremost scholars on the history of Christian liturgy, has shared this expertise in several works that have become standard texts for students of liturgy. In Rites of Ordination, Bradshaw turns his attention to the ways that Christians through the ages have understood...

The publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition offers an opportunity for homilists to explore the relationship between the Sunday readings and the new Roman Missal. Between the Ambo and the Altar is the first book (Year A) in a three-volume series that presents scriptural, liturgical, and preaching...

The publication of The Roman Missal, Third Edition offers an opportunity for homilists to explore the relationship between the Sunday readings and the new Roman Missal. Between the Ambo and the Altar is the second book (Year B) in a three-volume series that presents scriptural, liturgical, and preaching...

1 Why did the nations join to slay The Lord's anointed Son? Why did they cast his laws away, And tread his gospel down? 2 The Lord that sits above the skies, Derides their rage below, He speaks with vengeance in his eyes, And strikes their spirits thro'. 3 "I call him my Eternal...

To understand the pith of the sacraments, how they came up, and the very meaning of them, we must consider diligently the manners and fashions of the Hebrews, which were a people of great gravity and sadness, and earnest in all their doings, if any notable thing chanced among them; so that they not...

The Worship of The Generative Powers by Thomas Wright "This work first appeared as the second half of the 1865 printing of A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus. Wright's extended essay on Phallic worship is distinguished by much better scholarship and writing than some of the other works...