If this liturgy of weather preparedness is part of the Oklahoma psyche, so, unfortunately, is devastation.
That does not match the now fast-reviving use of Latin in the Roman Catholic liturgy.
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He must continue Benedict's good work in encouraging beauty and prayer in liturgy.
Now, for the first time since 1920, the self-anointed inheritors of the old Montenegrin Church have conducted the liturgy.
While the group accepts the doctrine and celebrates the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church, it uses its own liturgy and customs.
The Chaldeans are Eastern-rite Catholics - autonomous Churches of Eastern origin which retain their own liturgy and traditions, but recognise the Pope's authority.
It could have succeeded, had it stuck to a formula of being orthodox in doctrine, conservative in liturgy, and open-minded in social policy.
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The liturgy would inspire charity in the deepest sense, a capacity to respond with complexity and compassion to the existence of our fellow creatures.
Because most Protestant house churches are non-denominational (that is, not affiliated with Lutherans, Methodists and so on), they have no fixed liturgy or tradition.
Liturgy, whose members live in Brooklyn, records for the respected indie-rock label Thrill Jockey, which made its name in the mid-nineties releasing avant-garde but civilized rock.
In recent years, Vatican officials and local bishops have tussled over a range of issues including changes to liturgy to implementation of Vatican rules for disciplining sexually abusive priests.
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In a statement, the Church in Wales said it did not and had not authorised public services to bless same-sex unions and had no liturgy for them as a result.
It wasn't, strictly speaking, a wedding but it certainly looked and felt like one, with a highly traditional liturgy complete with choirs, familiar hymns, and an exchange of rings and vows.
During Friday's liturgy, the papal preacher, Capuchin friar Fr Raniero Cantalamessa, delivered a homily citing Franz Kafka's An Imperial Message to emphasise the of difficulty of getting the important message of Christ to the worldly.
This is a question that worries many of the more conservative cardinals, and particularly so when it is applied to Africa and Asia, where there is widespread pressure to incorporate local traditions into the liturgy.
"We're looking at music from the divine liturgy, labor songs and love songs, " said Mr. Tritle, adding that he hopes to present music from around the world as a way of matching the church's international outreach.
But by washing the feet of women, he jolted traditionalists who for years have been unbending in insisting that the ritual is for men only and proudly holding up as evidence documentation from the Vatican's liturgy office saying so.
" As he put it, "From the beginning, the Church in these lands has commemorated in her liturgy the great figures of the patriarchs and prophets, as a sign of her profound appreciation of the unity of the two Testaments.
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But now American bands such as Liturgy, Krallice, Absu, Leviathan, Wolves in the Throne Room, and Inquisition have left a fair amount of the pageantry behind not to mention the violence and helped to create a community, as well as a musical moment that is rife with activity.
Francis also raised traditional eyebrows when he refused the golden pectoral cross offered to him right after his election by Monsignor Guido Marini, the Vatican's liturgy guru who under Benedict became the symbol of Benedict's effort to restore the Gregorian chant and heavy silk brocaded vestments of the pre-Vatican II liturgy to papal Masses.
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