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Diaconalogue, No. 14, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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Diaconalogue, No. 13, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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Diaconalogue, No. 12, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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More Mysteries, Or, Why We Still Come To Church Anyway, Gail Mcgrew Eifrig

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Two years ago, on a brilliantly sunny day in February, I spoke to a small session of this Institute on the subject of preaching. In an address entitled "Behold I Tell You a Mystery: We Shall Not All Sleep," I attempted to initiate a discourse with clergy about preaching, in which the lay voice was not simply a mumbled sentence of praise or criticism given at the church door on Sunday morning, but was instead a participant in a more fully engaged meeting of minds and hearts. I commented at the outset on my claims to a purely lay …

Sent Forth By God's Blessing: Liturgy And Witness, Robert W. Hovda

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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"Liturgy and witness." Not liturgy as a means to witness or even, closer, the means to witness. For liturgy is an end, and the worship of the living God needs no other justification for creatures loved, redeemed, enlightened. But "liturgy and witness." Liturgy as witness and liturgy as formation, orientation, inspiration for the living of witness lives, both corporately as church and individually as members.

What We Have Seen And Heard And Touched, Gilbert Ostdiek O.F.M.

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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This year's Institute of Liturgical Studies has been carrying on an extended conversation on the relation between liturgy, witness, and service. It is a pleasure to join that conversation as a liturgist for whom liturgical catechesis of adults has been a longstanding avocation.

Hit Men And Midwives: Christian Witness At Work And At Worship, Robert Kolb

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Well, it has finally come to this: even a liturgical institute has to discuss evangelism. Almost certainly some people will look at the combination of liturgy and witness and observe from one point of view or another how this sort of thing could never have happened a generation ago.

Lex Orandi, Lex Operandi: The Relationship Of Worship And Work In The Early Church, Carl A. Volz

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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We are all familiar with the famous dictum of Prosper of Aquitaine, who in the fifth century coined the axiom, lex orandi, lex credendi. I propose a variation on this principle by suggesting lex orandi, lex operandi, the law of prayer gives birth to the law of works, and my test case will be the early church before Gregory the Great. To take each of these themes separately would be a simple task. We are all familiar with early Christian treatises on worship and the histories of worship. We also possess numerous commentaries on early Christian attitudes toward society …

Making A Public Difference In The Ministry Of Word And Witness, Dieter T. Hessel

Institute of Liturgical Studies Occasional Papers

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Today, the liberating movement of faith and a new cycle of societal change coincide to bring our churches and North American society itself to a turning point. The ecclesial and social situation alike call for a new era of ministry to make a public difference. My presentation will focus on the ethical contours of faithful community empowered by the living Word, and some public dimensions of parish ministry that responds to the Word through social witness.

Diaconalogue, No. 11, Lutheran Deaconess Association, Inc.

Diaconalogue

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