Another Western Definition of Worship

Stumbled across this definition of worship twice recently. Am told it’s quite well known? Very similar ground to @underhill_eve here who writes often on self-oblivion, the whole of our existence being offered, the soul of religion being adoration pic.twitter.com/QVByHupx1p

— Andy Coates (@Andy_Coates) December 30, 2022

The Example of St. Boniface

"The wisdom of St. Boniface reminds us that false idols must be cleared away to make room for true worship." https://t.co/6ppLaKDMlg

— The Josias (@josias_rex) June 5, 2021

Ingratitude

Eucharistia and Gratitude

Being thankful is the characteristic Way of the Christian. That’s what the Eucharist indicates: giving thanks. Is there any time, ever, that we cannot give thanks to God? Never. https://t.co/291SRISInl

— Orthodox Ethos (@frpeterheers) December 5, 2020

A Pernicious Error

This has had a lot of bad consequences in popular spirituality and theology, and now political commentary. There is nothing we have that was given to us by the Father, and nothing that we can return to Him that was not first given to us by Him, and this is true even of the Son of God.

In our relationship with God, everything is given to us in our act of surrender to the Father. To relinquish is to receive. We come to rule ourselves, the only sovereignty that guarantees happiness, when we give power back to God. #ChristTheKing https://t.co/4b45i8TVHI

— America Magazine (@americamag) November 22, 2020

Psalm 148

Many people struggle with prayer. They wonder when should they should pray, how often they should pray, and where they should pray. We should pray whenever we can, we should pray as often as we can, and we can pray wherever we are. https://t.co/0OGzzmG64E

— OCN (@MyOCN) November 2, 2020

Sunday Worship in 4th Century Jerusalem

The 12th century manuscript that serves as the basis for this article was discovered in 1884 by the Italian archaeologist Rammurini in Arezzo (Italy). Later it became known as The Pilgrimage to Holy Places..

Read full: https://t.co/KYAnDNWqSa

— St Elisabeth Convent. Orthodox Life And Chants (@StElisabethConv) September 3, 2020

Brian Butcher on Christian Worship

What is Christian Worship / Liturgy? Dr. Brian Butcherhttps://t.co/NpZm6g9GxD@compellingtruth @dcrump12321 @theryanstratton @aimlikeanarrow

— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 16, 2020

Uniformity at the expense of diversity. Diversity a division at the expense of unity.https://t.co/BmEzgcG5Ww

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— Sheptytsky Institute (@Sheptytsky) August 15, 2020

A Form of Latin Legalism?

We are pleased to offer our readers first English translation of the General Rubrics of the Missal promulgated by Pope Clement VIII, which remained in force until the reign of John XXIII. https://t.co/bIKrCdSLLX

— Canticum Salomonis (@Polignacus) July 17, 2020

Is there a connection between the Latin emphasis on rubrics and their conception of worship and sacrifice?

Fr. Michael O'Connor, O.P. - Living a Life of Divine Worship

Eternal Memory!

OCA: Remembering Protopresbyter Thomas Hopko





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Latin Notions of Sacrifice

Holy Mass: You Cannot Do Anything to Glorify God More by Peter Kwasniewski

Jesus Christ delivered us from the abyss of sin and death by the mysteries of His life and, above all, by His death on the Cross, when He offered Himself to the Father as an infinitely pleasing sacrifice of love.

Christ and the Forms of Worship

Reverence

Traditionalist Latin Liturgical Theology

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What notion of sacrifice?

What is needed, rather, is to see the Mass through the lens of the Office. We need to see the Mass as a sweet-smelling sacrifice of praise offered up in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, thanking God for His great glory, adoring, placating, supplicating Him. Only after that does it make sense to see it as a banquet to which we are invited. We are invited to a sacrifice of which we may then partake if we are properly disposed; we reap spiritual fruit in proportion to how well we have been prepared by the very liturgical action in which we have participated.

What notion of gift?

The Mass is not a utilitarian process designed to maximize the efficient delivery of goods. The Mass is not, as such, a communion service. It is a complex ceremony of repentance, adoration, petition, and thanksgiving, with a sacramental sacrifice at its core. It was given to us by our Lord and His Church as the highest form of prayer, which prepares for, culminates in, and gives thanks for the gift of His Most Holy Body and Blood. It does not begin and end with that gift.

Throw in some mystical bride spirituality, too, which admittedly can be found in some of the Eastern fathers like Origen and St. Maximos.

Think of it this way: If you were Mary of Bethany, sitting at the feet of Jesus and soaking in His words, would you want to sit there quietly, for quite some time, preparing yourself deeply for the spiritual marriage with Him — “the marriage of the Lamb is come, and his wife hath prepared herself” (Rev 19:7) — or would you want to listen for a few minutes, jump up, give Him a hug and a kiss, and be off to the next thing?

Mass is a service of prayer:

In short: the Mass is not just about communion. It is a many-sided service of prayer

But you don't need to understand it to pray it, because "Mystery" is important too. Or, just use a bilingual missal!

Let us consider this fact. It would have been a lot “simpler” if Jesus had remained among us under His natural appearances until the end of time. He surely could have done that; the Ascension was not necessary, in the strict logical sense of necessity.

What does 'logical' necessity have to do with practical reason? It was 'morally' necessary, means to end. (John 16:7)

More on Worship

This past Sunday the Gospel was the story of Christ's encounter with the Samiritan woman at Jacob's well, which features the word "worship." In Greek: προσκυνεῖν (proskynein). The Latin word used in the neo-Vulgate is adorare.

For Aquinas, he discusses the virtue of religio, under which he talks about latria (and adoratio) in (II II ae) Question 84.

There is no Latin for Gaudete et Exsultate yet, so I am not sure what the English word "worship" is translating. In the CCC, worship translates adorare/adoratio. But in the CCC, worship is also used to translate the word cultus. (Similar to how the English word was used to refer to any form of reverence and also to that which is due to God alone?)

Edit. I remembered to check the Italian text for Gaudete et Exsultate: "worship" corresponds to both culto and adorazione in the Italian text.

Hyperdulia

Old Catholic Encyclopedia: Christian Worship

Is Liturgy More than Worship?

I have been considering this question for the past few days, in connection with Bouyer and Schmemann. Worship is part of St. Thomas's catalog of the virtues, but I suspect that the Latin equivalent can be found in the texts of the Roman rite going back to the earliest days, when Latin was first introduced. (If this is the case, was it a translation of a Greek word introduced by the first Roman Christians, or was it adopted later?)

Youth, liturgy, and the need for true worship by Peter M.J. Stravinskas

Liturgy – like the Faith it celebrates – never admits of an “erector-set” approach; good liturgy, true liturgy is received, not fabricated, and it takes seriously the human person in all his complexity of body and soul.

Lectoring in the Roman rite in the US

The Byzantine rite does have instituted lectors but it also does allow for non-instituted lectors, who should chant the reading as well. And, there is also a question here of whether the artchitectural feature of the "sanctuary" reflects a good and proper understanding of the temple as a place for the Eucharistic assembly.

On Jesus Christ and the Liturgy - Fr. Khaled Anatolios, Ph.D.

2017 Hillenbrand Lecture by Bishop Steven Lopes

The Worship of God in the Beauty of Holiness by Most Rev. Steven J. Lopes

Bishop Lopes' June 21, 2017 Hillenbrand Lecture at the Liturgical Institute of the University of Saint Mary of the Lake, where he offered a presentation on Divine Worship.