Word: worshiper
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...Growing Reformation. This one sided form of corporate worship disturbs some Roman Catholics as much as it puzzles Protestants - and Catholics are doing something about it. Roman Catholicism is in the midst of a growing liturgical reformation that seeks to gain for the church what Protestantism gained four centuries ago - active congregational participation in worship...
...week in Philadelphia, about 13,000 "litniks," as liturgical reformers are sometimes called, gathered for the 24th annual North American Liturgical Week. There they honored Minnesota's Benedictine Father Godfrey Diekmann, 55, a pioneer promoter of liturgical reform during his 25 years as editor of the monthly journal Worship. The most compelling problem confronting the conferees was one that indicated the growing importance of liturgical reform in the Roman Catholic Church: how to educate parishes to the changes in worship that are certain to be ordered by the council...
Toward Greater Meaning. The principal act of Roman Catholic worship is the Mass-a re-enactment of Calvary in which the congregation joins with Christ in offering anew the sacrifice of his body and blood under the form of bread and wine. The ritual evolved over many centuries. The "Mass" of the early Christians was a simple commemorative meal, at which worshipers ate bread and drank wine over which a priest had repeated Jesus' words at the Last Supper. Each local church developed its own customs and ceremonies to surround these acts, but in the Middle Ages the rite...
Roman Catholic liturgical renewal began early in the 20th century among a group of German, French and Belgian Benedictines who were inspired by new knowledge of how the first Christians conducted their worship. With permission from Rome, the reformers undertook to restore lay participation in the liturgy. The reformers revived congregational singing of chants and hymns that accompany the Mass. In place of ornate altars, they celebrated Mass on plain stone tables, and they faced the congregation instead of the wall. They introduced the "dialogue" Mass, in which the congregation responds to the prayers of the priest. Some reformers advocated...
...president, Pastor Oscar J. Naumann, 54, is similarly tolerant in secular affairs. "But on a matter which affects our hope for salvation-Scripture-there can be no compromise," he says. Until Missouri reforms, adds Pastor Schaefer, "we cannot pray with them, we cannot work with them, we cannot worship with them and, by extension, with anyone else who does...