The Church at Prayer

The Church at Prayer
Author: Aimilianos (Simōnopetritēs, Archimandritēs.)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2012-03-27
Genre: Athos (Greece)
ISBN: 9781936773060

Teachings on prayer.

The Church at Prayer

The Church at Prayer
Author: Aimé Georges Martimort
Publisher: Irish Academic Press
Total Pages: 286
Release: 1968
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Principles of the Liturgy

Principles of the Liturgy
Author: Irénée Henri Dalmais
Publisher: Liturgical Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1987
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780814613634

Traces the development of Catholic worship from the apostolic Church to the present.

Prayer

Prayer
Author: John Onwuchekwa
Publisher: Crossway
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2019-03-06
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1433559501

What is the role of corporate prayer in the church? Prayer is as necessary to the Christian as breathing is to the human body— but it often doesn't come quite as naturally. In fact, prayer in the church often gets subtly pushed to the side in favor of pragmatic practices that promise tangible results. This book focuses on the necessity of regular prayer as a central practice in the local church—awakening us to the need and blessing of corporate prayer by examining what Jesus taught about prayer, how the first Christians approached prayer, and how to prioritize prayer in our congregations.

Prayer Book of the Early Christians

Prayer Book of the Early Christians
Author: John A. McGuckin
Publisher: Paraclete Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1612610382

Designed for any 21st-century Christian, this prayer book gathers prayers and rituals from the ancient Church (especially early Greek Christianity), re-presenting them for the use of Christians at home, in small prayer groups, cohorts, and house churches. It offers a structure of prayer offices and blessing rituals for all times of day and year, and articulates many religious needs including bereavement, house blessing, praise, worry, gratitude, and thanksgiving.

Prayer

Prayer
Author: Jean Daniélou
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Total Pages: 152
Release: 1996
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Catholic scholar Jean Danielou considers the centrality of prayer for the Christian layperson, developing the insight that the active, missionary dimension of the Christian life is in fact the "self-unfolding" of contemplation.

The Basic Book of Catholic Prayer

The Basic Book of Catholic Prayer
Author: Lawrence George Lovasik
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1999
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1928832040

Whether you've just begun to pray or have been faithfully praying for years, the wisdom in this book will help you pray better. Fr. Lawrence Lovasik here shows you innumerable ways you can avoid common obstacles and deepen your prayer life, no matter how much or how little you may have prayed before.

The Psalms and the Life of Faith

The Psalms and the Life of Faith
Author: Walter Brueggemann
Publisher: Fortress Press
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2004
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781451419719

Walter Brueggemann's unique gift of joining historical-exegetical insights to penetrating observations about the traumas and joys of contemporary life?both personal and social?is here forcefully displayed. Everyone who is familiar with his work knows the power of his speech about "doxological, polemical, political, subversive, evangelical faith: and about the ways such faith is enacted in the praise of ancient Israel and in the church.Readers of this book will find fresh insight into:the Psalms as prayer and praisethe categories of the Psalmsthe social context in which psalms were prayed and sungthe theology of the Psalmsthe dialogical character of the Psalmsjustice and injustice in the Psalmsthe study and "use" of the Psalms by the churchpraise as an act of basic trust and abandonmentthe impossible wonders of God's activity that overturn conventional ways of

Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition

Common Worship: Times and Seasons President's Edition
Author: Common Worship
Publisher: Canterbury Press
Total Pages: 657
Release: 2013-07-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0715122436

This revised, expanded edition of the Common Worship President’s Edition contains everything to celebrate Holy Communion Order One throughout the church year. It combines relevant material from the original President’s Edition with Eucharistic material from Times and Seasons, Festivals and Pastoral Services, and the Additional Collects.

Book of Common Worship, Daily Prayer

Book of Common Worship, Daily Prayer
Author: Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 1993-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780664220327

This easy-to-carry and very practical devotional resource will help all individuals, congregations, families, and small groups looking for assistance in prayer and in leading groups in prayer. It includes all the material from the Daily Prayer section of the full-sized edition of theBook of Common Worship. It features rubrics and blue and maroon ribbons. The cover is also a brilliant maroon. Orders for morning and evening prayer are provided, as well as the psalms and the daily lectionary. Prayers are also included for family and personal life, the church, national life, world issues, and environmental concerns.