Day: September 3, 2012
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Counting sheep
More people attending church less often – sounds about right to me.
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This Week’s Discussion Question: Stability and Flexibility
What is the greater danger today to the Church’s liturgical life? Is it disregard of the books, imposition of private agendas, and loss of a common ritual vocabulary? Or is it Pharasaic legalism, idolatrous divinizing of merely human social constructions?
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Icons
An artist, often a monk, would prepare himself with fasting and prayer before taking on the solemn portrayal of his holy devotion. The resulting image or icon would be blessed and revered as a spiritual depiction of the holy.