Thus far these compositions are called
Liturgical Plays, because they formed, in general, a part of the church service (liturgy).
With the exception perhaps of the "Hymn to Ares" (viii), no item in the collection can be regarded as either devotional or
liturgical.
Evangelical versus
Liturgical? Defying a Dichotomy.
The Church has established its
liturgical praxis on the Letter to the Hebrews.
In an introductory essay, Berger outlines the structure of the book and sketches the arguments for using the concept of migration as an interpretive lens with which to explore historical and contemporary
liturgical moments.
WASHINGTON * For those who think the movement to reform Catholic
liturgical practices started early in the 20th century, Jesuit Fr.
Liturgical law prescribes that only men can be chosen for that rite.
A context for such a theological language is found in liturgy, where the full content of
liturgical performance is not communicated by words alone, but is both formed and enacted ritually, through physical gesture, vocalization, repetition, and an engaged involvement of the person acting in time.
In the first, Pastor #1, in a short column in The Lutheran, (1) as part of his attempt to give a greater emphasis to Pentecost as one of the three great but neglected festival days on the
liturgical calendar, described his own practice of creating an actual season of preparation for Pentecost in his parish, which he calls "Prepent," This season of prepararion begins on the Sunday before Pentecost ("Prepent Sunday"), i.e., the Seventh Sunday of Easter, and includes even a color change for paraments and vestments from the white of Easter to the red of Pentecost.
Iversen, Gunilla and Nicolas Bell, eds, Sapientia et Eloquentia: Meaning and Function in
Liturgical Poetry, Music, Drama, and Biblical Commentary in the Middle Ages (Disputatio, 11), Turnhout, Brepols, 2009; hardback; pp.
Granger bravely attempts to negotiate the various anomalies of N-Town (no existing dramatic records, no geographical home base, not being a civic cycle play, etc.) through a reading of the manuscript's use of liturgy, and, as she later argues, possible
liturgical uses.
If you want a peek into the current hullabaloo in Roman Catholicism over everything from
liturgical translations to where to put the altar, to who washes the Communion dishes after worship, you'll enjoy John Baldovin's Reforming the Liturgy: A Response to the Critics (
Liturgical Press, 2009).