Word: worshipfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced by the claims of Catholicism. Yet, accustomed as he is to a tradition of free prayer, Bible-centered sermons and mighty hymns, he might still feel alien to a church that offers its believers private confession of sins to a priest, solemn Mass with incense and chant, and worship mostly confined to set liturgical forms...
Amidst all the talk of Christian unity, relatively little has been said about the differences in spirituality and worship that could keep the churches apart even after doctrinal problems have been resolved. Last summer, a group of top-ranking Protestant, Orthodox and Catholic theologians met at St. John's Benedictine Abbey in Minnesota to compare and contrast the pieties of their churches. The papers from this unique conference appear in the current Worship, a monthly journal on liturgy published by the monks of St. John...
Much of the difference, suggests Benedictine Father Jean Leclerq, stems from the great influence that monasteries have had on Catholic life. In monastic spirituality there is a strong emphasis upon withdrawal from the world, ascetic practice, corporate worship through the liturgy-ideals that were all carried over into the life of Catholic laymen. Along with doctrine, Protestantism strongly rejected this otherworldly spirituality. Puritanism, notes Congregationalist Historian Horton Davies of Princeton, dismissed liturgy "as a lame man might a crutch when he believed himself healed," in favor of free prayer, the Bible and simplicity. Davies quotes from a 1641 Puritan attack...
...Eventually, the church hopes to experiment with even more drastic changes, including a new form for Holy Communion and baptism. The proposed Holy Communion is somewhat closer in structure to the Roman Catholic Mass than the present service; the Gloria, for example, would be recited at the beginning of worship following the Kyrie, instead of after distribution of the consecrated bread and wine. The Anglican liturgical commission that drew up the new services deliberately left the rubrics vague to allow for adaptation to the needs of individual churches...
...meant for "every churchgoer. The shape and style of the service in which he takes part on Sunday, or in which the church commits his dead to their maker, is something which affects him profoundly. His view of what Christianity is will be largely determined by the liturgical worship to which he is accustomed, and he carries this with him into his daily life...