A Ritual For Laypersons

Author : Catholic Church
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 0814635393
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Ritual for Laypersons written by Catholic Church and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the unique features of the revised liturgical books published after the Second Vatican Council is the provision of certain rites at which a layperson is able to preside in the absence of a priest or deacon. This book gathers in one place such rites excerpted from: Holy Communion and worship of the eucharist outside Mass, Pastoral care of the sick: Rites of anointing and viaticum, and Order of Christian funerals"--Introduction.

Author : Kathleen Hope Brown
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814629543
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lay Leaders of Worship written by Kathleen Hope Brown and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book might be considered a companion to Sunday celebrations in the absence of a priest and A ritual for lady persons. It addresses the questions: Who is the lay person who leads the community in prayer? What is their relationship to the community? What skills and/or training should be required? -- What sort of spiritual formation is desirable? How can the parish community or diocese help to promote their ministerial identity? Because lay ministry is not a stop-gap solution to a temporary need but a gift to the Church for the long term, these questions need careful consideration. --Book cover.

Author : Nicolas Standaert
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295800046
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interweaving of Rituals written by Nicolas Standaert and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The death of the Italian Jesuit Matteo Ricci in China in 1610 was the occasion for demonstrations of European rituals appropriate for a Catholic priest and also of Chinese rituals appropriate to the country hosting the Jesuit community. Rather than burying Ricci immediately in a plain coffin near the church, according to their European practice, the Jesuits followed Chinese custom and kept Ricci's body for nearly a year in an air-tight Chinese-style coffin and asked the emperor for burial ground outside the city walls. Moreover, at Ricci's funeral itself, on their own initiative the Chinese performed their funerary rituals, thus starting a long and complex cultural dialogue in which they took the lead during the next century. The Interweaving of Rituals explores the role of ritual - specifically rites related to death and funerals - in cross-cultural exchange, demonstrating a gradual interweaving of Chinese and European ritual practices at all levels of interaction in seventeenth-century China. This includes the interplay of traditional and new rituals by a Christian community of commoners, the grafting of Christian funerals onto established Chinese practices, and the sponsorship of funeral processions for Jesuit officials by the emperor. Through careful observation of the details of funerary practice, Nicolas Standaert illustrates the mechanics of two-way cultural interaction. His thoughtful analysis of the ritual exchange between two very different cultural traditions is especially relevant in today's world of global ethnic and religious tension. His insights will be of interest to a broad range of scholars, from historians to anthropologists to theologians.

Author : David William Antonio
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814661864
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Inculturation Model of the Catholic Marriage Ritual written by David William Antonio and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In An Inculturation Model of the Catholic Marriage Ritual, David William Antonio presents a model of how the Catholic Ritual of Marriage may be adapted to the language, culture and traditions of a particular people, specifically, the ilocanos of Northern Luzon in the Philippines. Vatican II called for the revision and adaptation of the rite of marriage, exhorting local churches to develop their own rites suited to their people's particular customs and traditions. The work of preparing a rite of marriage for a particular region cannot be limited to merely translating the typical edition. There has to be a thorough examination of both the editio typica and the people's religious and cultural traditions, the socio-economic and political realities that confront them, attending to the positive values expressed therein. Only a dialogical process such as this will guarantee a liturgy that is faithful to the Christian tradition and meaningful to a given people. An Inculturation Model of the Catholic Marriage Ritual will serve as a model for people of other cultures who have to do similar liturgical preparation and will be important especially to churches whose membership includes people who experienced colonization but never lost the riches of their own cultures in the blending of cultures and beliefs that followed.

Author : Liturgical Press
Publisher : Liturgical Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814613689
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Communion of the Sick written by Liturgical Press and published by Liturgical Press. This book was released on 1984-08 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Communion of the Sick the special rite for communion calls in a hospital or institution. Each has its particular instrution and format, which appear immediately before the rite itself.

Author : Catholic Church
Publisher : Catholic Book Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780899424569
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pastoral Care of the Sick written by Catholic Church and published by Catholic Book Publishing. This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of Pastoral Care of the Sick: Rites of Anointing and Viaticum is commended to the Roman Catholic Church and its ministers who care for the sick and dying by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops.

Author : Joshua A. Irizarry
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472055364
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sojiji written by Joshua A. Irizarry and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction: Sōjiji, the Forest for a Thousand Years -- Chapter 1. The History of Sōjiji -- Chapter 2. The Training of a Sōtō Zen Novice -- Chapter 3. Bearing the Mantle of Priesthood -- Chapter 4. Struggling for Enlightenment (While Keeping Your Day Job) -- Chapter 5. Performing Compassion Through Goeika Music -- Chapter 6. Making Ancestors Through Memorial Rituals -- Conclusion: For a Thousand Years -- Epilogue: In Perpetuity -- Afterward: Writing Sōjiji -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Notes -- Index.

Author : Nathan D. Mitchell
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 081476343X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Rosary written by Nathan D. Mitchell and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rosary has been nearly ubiquitous among Roman Catholics since its first appearance in Europe five centuries ago. Why has this particular devotional object been so resilient, especially in the face of Catholicism's reinvention in the Early Modern, or "Counter-Reformation," Era? Nathan D. Mitchell argues in lyric prose that to understand the rosary's adaptability, it is essential to consider the changes Catholicism itself began to experience in the aftermath of the Reformation. Unlike many other scholars of this period, Mitchell argues that after the Reformation Catholicism actually became less retrenched and more open to change. This innovation was especially evident in the sometimes "subversive" visual representations of sacred subjects and in new ways of perceiving the relation between Catholic devotion and the liturgy's ritual symbols. The rosary played a crucial role not only in how Catholics gave flesh to their faith, but in new ways of constructing their personal and collective identity. Ultimately, Mitchell employs the history of the rosary as a lens through which to better understand early modern Catholic history.

Author : Françoise Dussart
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 1772125938
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics written by Françoise Dussart and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this timely collection, the authors examine Indigenous peoples’ negotiations with different cosmologies in a globalized world. Dussart and Poirier outline a sophisticated theory of change that accounts for the complexity of Indigenous peoples’ engagement with Christianity and other cosmologies, their own colonial experiences, as well as their ongoing relationships to place and kin. The contributors offer fine-grained ethnographic studies that highlight the complex and pragmatic ways in which Indigenous peoples enact their cosmologies and articulate their identity as forms of affirmation. This collection is a major contribution to the anthropology of religion, religious studies, and Indigenous studies worldwide. Contributors: Anne-Marie Colpron, Robert R. Crépeau, Françoise Dussart, Ingrid Hall, Laurent Jérôme, Frédéric Laugrand, C. James MacKenzie, Caroline Nepton Hotte, Ksenia Pimenova, Sylvie Poirier, Kathryn Rountree, Antonella Tassinari, Petronella Vaarzon-Morel

Author : Gareth Fisher
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824847938
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Comrades to Bodhisattvas written by Gareth Fisher and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2014-08-31 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Comrades to Bodhisattvas is the first book-length study of Han Chinese Buddhism in post-Mao China. Using an ethnographic approach supported by over a decade of field research, it provides an intimate portrait of lay Buddhist practitioners in Beijing who have recently embraced a religion that they were once socialized to see as harmful superstition. The book focuses on the lively discourses and debates that take place among these new practitioners in an unused courtyard of a Beijing temple. In this non-monastic space, which shrinks each year as the temple authorities expand their commercial activities, laypersons gather to distribute and exchange Buddhist-themed media, listen to the fiery sermons of charismatic preachers, and seek solutions to personal moral crises. Applying recent theories in the anthropology of morality and ethics, Gareth Fisher argues that the practitioners are attracted to the courtyard as a place where they can find ethical resources to re-make both themselves and others in a rapidly changing nation that they believe lacks a coherent moral direction. Spurred on by the lessons of the preachers and the stories in the media they share, these courtyard practitioners inventively combine moral elements from China’s recent Maoist past with Buddhist teachings on the workings of karma and the importance of universal compassion. Their aim is to articulate a moral antidote to what they see as blind obsession with consumption and wealth accumulation among twenty-first century Chinese. Often socially marginalized and sidelined from meaningful roles in China’s new economy, these former communist comrades look to their new moral roles along a bodhisattva path to rebuild their self-worth. Each chapter focuses on a central trope in the courtyard practitioners’ projects to form new moral identities. The Chinese government’s restrictions on the spread of religious teachings in urban areas curtail these practitioners' ability to insert their moral visions into an emerging public sphere. Nevertheless, they succeed, at least partially, Fisher argues, in creating their own discursive space characterized by a morality of concern for fellow humans and animals and a recognition of the organizational abilities and pedagogical talents of its members that are unacknowledged in society at large. Moreover, as the later chapters of the book discuss, by writing, copying, and distributing Buddhist-themed materials, the practitioners participate in creating a religious network of fellow-Buddhists across the country, thereby forming a counter-cultural community within contemporary urban China. Highly readable and full of engaging descriptions of the real lives of practicing lay Buddhists in contemporary China, From Comrades to Bodhisattvas will interest specialists in Chinese Buddhism, anthropologists of contemporary Asia, and all scholars interested in the relationship between religion and cultural change.