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| Introduction: What Is Pastoral Liturgies? | |
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| Liturgy-A Practical Science | |
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| Why do we worship? | |
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| What is liturgy? | |
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| What does it mean to do liturgy "decently and in order"? | |
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| How do we discern meaning in liturgy? | |
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| How is the people's work the work of God? | |
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| History and Culture | |
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| What are the main periods of liturgical history? | |
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| What characterizes liturgy in each of these periods? | |
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| How does liturgy relate to culture in each of these periods? | |
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| What are the strategies of relating liturgy to culture? | |
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| How does inculturation work? | |
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| The Principal Order of Service | |
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| What are the names of the principal order of service? | |
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| How did this order develop throughout history? | |
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| What is the lectionary and how does it work? | |
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| What are the parts of a eucharistic prayer? | |
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| What is the difference between a "High Mass" and a "Low Mass"? | |
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| The Liturgy of Time | |
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| What does it mean to sanctify time? | |
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| Where did the liturgy of the hours come from? | |
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| What's the difference between cathedral and monastic prayer offices? | |
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| How did the liturgy of the hours develop throughout history? | |
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| How might daily prayer offices become daily once again? | |
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| The Church-Year Calendar | |
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| What is the fixed day of Christian worship? | |
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| What are the principal festivals and seasons? | |
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| What are the lesser festivals, days of devotion, and commemorations? | |
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| What do we do the rest of the time? | |
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| What is the difference between a feast and a fast? | |
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| The Church Year: Advent through Lent | |
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| Advent: Why do we begin at the end? | |
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| Christmas: What are the options for celebration? | |
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| The Epiphany: What are the riches of the observance? | |
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| Time after the Epiphany: Is there an Epiphany season? | |
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| Ash Wednesday and Lent: How do we practice penitence and catechesis? | |
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| The Church Year: Holy Week | |
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| How did the rites of Holy Week develop? | |
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| Palm/Passion Sunday: What is the relationship between palms and the passion? | |
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| Maundy Thursday: What is the relationship between foot washing and the Lord's Supper? | |
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| Good Friday: What is the difference between liturgy and paraliturgical devotions? | |
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| Holy Saturday: How might the Great Vigil be structured? | |
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| The Church Year: Easter and Beyond | |
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| Easter: How can a fifty-day celebration be maintained? | |
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| Pentecost: What happens on "the last and great day" of the feast? | |
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| Time after Pentecost: Should lesser festivals replace Sundays? | |
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| The Sanctoral Cycle: How do we commemorate the faithful departed? | |
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| Christ the King: How does the church year end? | |
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| Life Passages | |
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| How does the church make new Christians? | |
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| How do Christians affirm and live out their baptism? | |
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| How does the church make ministers? | |
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| How does the church solemnize marriages? | |
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| How does the church militant transfer members to the church triumphant? | |
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| The Liturgical Arts | |
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| What are "psalms and hymns and spiritual songs"? | |
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| How are hymns and other music selected for worship? | |
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| What is the role of bells? | |
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| How is the liturgical space arranged? | |
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| What do ministers wear for the liturgy? | |
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| Participation in Worship | |
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| How is the body used in worship? | |
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| What are some standard ceremonies in the Western liturgical tradition? | |
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| How do processions facilitate popular participation? | |
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| What should the people have to support their participation? | |
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| How are children formed into the liturgy? | |
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| Afterword: In Lieu of a Bibliography of Current Denominational Worship Books | |
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| Chronology of Events and Documents | |
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| Glossary of Liturgical Terms | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |