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the Collect. The Salutation is from the Latin meaning "a greeting" - it is a liturgical greeting by which the pastor blesses the people, and receives in response a blessing from the gathered people of God (see 2 Timothy 4:22, Luke 1:28, Ruth 2:4). The Collect of the Day is a concisely written prayer
What is the Mass or Liturgy? A good way to describe the Mass is to say that it is Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday made present today in ritual. It is not merely a meal which reminds us of the Last Supper, or a Passion play which helps recall Good Friday, or a Sunrise Service which celebrates the Lord’s Resurrection.
Penitential Act. The Priest invites the faithful to the Penitential Act. Then one of the Penitential Acts follows: I confess to almighty God and to you, my brothers and sisters, that I have greatly sinned, in my thoughts and in my words, Or: in what I have done and in what I have failed to do, And, striking their breast, they say:
Liturgy and Life: The Place of the Liturgy in Reality W HAT is the liturgy? What happens during the liturgy? What kind of reality do we encounter here? In the 1920s the suggestion was made that we should understand the liturgy in terms of “play”. The point of the analogy was that a
In heaven we will be gathered around the throne and the Lamb, confessing that he alone is holy, he alone is the Lord. In more recent times, the Lutheran Church in North America has made a significant contribution to the church’s liturgy through the alternate Hymn of Praise, “This is the Feast.”.
Our divine liturgy is a celebration of the victory of our Lord Jesus Christ. Here the saving action of God through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proclaimed. The divine services are celebrations of Jesus’ opening the gates of heaven for us through his life, death, and resurrection. They do not commemorate the
Understanding the Liturgy Kyrie, Gloria in Excelsis, Sanctus, Agnus Dei, Nunc Dimittis – you see these words in our liturgy, but do you really understand what they mean and why they are there? What do the parts of the Divine Service mean?
