The Liturgy and Time

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The history of liturgical celebration seen through the annual change of seasons and the Church's liturgical calendar.

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Contents

Time in the Liturgy I H Dalmais
1
Sunday and the Week
11
The Easter Cycle
33
The Christmas Season
77
The Feasts of the Lord in Ordinary Time
97
The Veneration of the Saints
108
The Veneration of Mary
130
The Hours of Prayer
157
The Liturgy of the Hours as Prayer
179
The Liturgy of the Hours Praying the Psalms
190
The Other Elements in the Liturgy of the Hours
207
The Varied Forms of the Liturgy of the Hours
233
Structure and Spirituality of Each Hour
256
Spiritual Conditions Needed for the Celebration
273
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Page 12 - Jesus came and stood among them, and said, 'Peace be with you.' Then he said to Thomas, 'Put your finger here, and see my hands; and put out your hand, and place it in my side; do not be faithless, but believing.' Thomas answered him, 'My Lord and my God!
Page xi - Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi.
Page 20 - Sun-day" all who live in cities or in the country gather together to one place, and the memoirs of the Apostles or the writings of the prophets are read, as long as time permits ; then, when the reader has ceased, the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the imitation of these good things.
Page 192 - Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance and forgiveness of sins should be preached in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
Page 158 - Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.
Page 11 - By a tradition handed down from the apostles which took its origin from the very day of Christ's resurrection, the Church celebrates the paschal mystery every eighth day; with good reason this, then, bears the name of the Lord's day or Sunday.
Page 33 - Cleanse out the old leaven that you may be a new lump, as you really are unleavened. For Christ, our paschal lamb, has been sacrificed. "Let us, therefore, celebrate the festival, not with the old leaven, the leaven of malice and evil, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.
Page 12 - Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, even so I send you." And when he had said this, he breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained " Now Thomas, one of the Twelve, called the Twin, was not with them when Jesus came.
Page 188 - Christ Jesus, high priest of the new and eternal covenant, taking human nature introduced into this earthly exile that hymn which is sung throughout all ages in the halls of heaven.
Page 20 - The two parts which, in a certain sense, go to make up the Mass, namely, the liturgy of the word and the Eucharistic liturgy, are so closely connected with each other that they form but one single act of worship.

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