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...N.C.C. book is the second installment of a three-part revision of Bible readings for Christian worship, known as a lectionary. The suggested readings, billed as "provisional, experimental and responsible," are based on the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, which will have its own, considerably less radical, degendered language in a forthcoming edition...
...centuries the Roman Catholic Mass, the church's central act of worship, was celebrated by a priest reciting Latin prayers, facing the altar as the laity behind him provided a devout but silent background. In 1963 the Second Vatican Council, seeking to give the laity a greater role in the liturgy, authorized a sweeping reform of worship that included prayers in the vernacular and a rite in which the priest faced his congregation. For many conservatives, most notably the dissident French Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, the new Mass, even though it can be said in Latin, became a rallying point...
...letter to bishops published last week with papal approval, the Vatican Congregation for Divine Worship once again allowed limited use of the old Tridentine Mass (after the 16th century Council of Trent, which established it). The Vatican explained that permission was granted so as not "to alienate groups of the faithful who feel particularly tied to the [old] rite, which may be especially dear to them...
Your recent article on the harsh persecution of Chinese Christians who desire to worship in free or house churches rather than in official government-sanctioned ones starkly illustrates that freedom of worship does not exist today in China. Chinese citizens are not free to worship as they choose...
...novels of the mid-1920s, Aaron's Rod (1922), Kangaroo (1923) and The Plumed Serpent (1926), veered toward the worship of supermen, blood-consciousness and dark gods. Only in Lady Chatterley's Lover (1928), his last novel, did he return to the subject of men and women in love that he had discarded with Mr. Noon. Then, throwing caution to the winds, he opened that bedroom door completely and apparently for good...