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Antiphonary of St. Benigne

His plan failed after the catastrophic defeat of his son Otto II near Reggio, but the role of Cluny as a centre for liturgical reforms had increased in Ottonic times.

Beheaded

Beheading of St. John the Baptist, is a holy day observed by various Christian churches which follow liturgical traditions

Beneventan chant

During the Lombard occupation of the 7th and 8th centuries, a distinctive liturgical rite and plainchant tradition developed in Benevento.

Blue Star Wicca

Tzipora Klein (née Katz), who had joined the coven in 1977, and with her then-husband Kenny Klein, left on a folk music tour after the 1983 release of their cassette Moon Hooves in the Sand, which contained Blue Star liturgical music.

Bob Dufford

(born 1943) is a Jesuit priest, a former member of the St. Louis Jesuits musical group, and a composer of Catholic liturgical music.

Bridgeport, Michigan

David Haas, American author and composer of Contemporary Catholic liturgical music.

Catechetical Centre, Karachi

The Centre also organises programs on liturgical music like the one titled "Proper Use of Music in Worship" on Jan. 27, 2007, at the Holy Family Hospital Auditorium.

Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

The construction was supervised by Father Richard S. Vosko, a liturgical design consultant and priest of the Diocese of Albany who has overseen the design and renovation of numerous churches and cathedrals around the country.

Concert music

Classical music, the art music produced in, or rooted in, the traditions of Western liturgical and secular music, encompassing a broad period from roughly the 9th century to present times.

Confession of Peter

The Confession of Peter is the beginning of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, is actually an octave rather than a week and was originally known as the Octave of Christian Unity.

The Confession of Peter is also the name of a liturgical feastday celebrated by several Christian churches, often as part of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

Crispin and Crispinian

Although this feast was removed from the Roman Catholic Church's universal liturgical calendar following the Second Vatican Council, the two saints are still commemorated on that day in the most recent edition of the Roman Martyrology.

Dominican Academy

Service organizations at Dominican Academy include Amnesty International, Campus Ministry, Liturgical Choir, Junior Ladies of Charity, Pro-Life Club, National Honor Society, SADD, Student Ambassadors, and Student Council.

First seven Ecumenical Councils

For those who accept it (Eastern Orthodox, Roman Catholics, most liturgical Protestants), it is the Fourth Ecumenical Council (calling the Second Council of Ephesus, which was rejected by this council, the "Robber Synod" or "Robber Council").

History of Eastern Christianity

The church has the rest of the liturgical ritual being rooted in the Jewish Passover, Siddur, Seder, and synagogue services, including the singing of hymns (especially the Psalms) and reading from the Scriptures (Old and New Testament).

International Commission on English in the Liturgy

The International Commission on English in the Liturgy is a commission set up by a number of episcopal conferences of English-speaking countries for the purpose of providing English translations of the liturgical books of the Roman Rite, the originals of which are in Latin.

Irmologion

An important portion of Matins and other services in the Orthodox Church is the Canon, a long liturgical poem divided into nine Odes.

James S. Wall

He also studied at the Liturgical Institute of St. Mary of the Lake Seminary in Mundelein, Illinois.

Jatari Indian Folk Association

The Jatari Indian Folk Association is a Hungarian musical group aims to explore and collect the folk traditions such as folk music, folk and sacral dances, national costume, folk instruments, legends, folk tales, Catholic liturgical and Gregorian tunes of Andean cultures of South America.

Joseph Gelineau

Joseph Gelineau (Champ-sur-Layon, Maine-et-Loire, 31 October 1920 – Sallanches, 8 August 2008) was a French Catholic Jesuit priest and composer, mainly of modern Christian liturgical music.

Kedrov

Nikolay Kedrov, Sr., Russian composer of liturgical music (1871-1940)

Konrad Ruhland

He studied history, medieval Latin, theology, and liturgical history which helped him to gain extensive background knowledge for his musicological research.

Lampadarius

"The priests," he says, "are still, and the deacons stand in silence, the whole people is quiet and still, subdued and calm. The altar stands crowned with beauty and splendor, and upon it is the Gospel of life and the adorable wood i.e. the cross. The mysteries are set in order, the censers are smoking, the lamps are shining and the deacons are hovering and brandishing fans in likeness of watchers" (Conolly "Liturgical Homilies of Narsai", p. 12).

Lay confession

As an example, the Anglican Church of Canada states, in the preface to its liturgical rite for "The Reconciliation of a Penitent", the following: "The absolution in these services may be pronounced only by a bishop or a priest. If a deacon or a lay person hears a confession, a declaration of forgiveness may be made in the form provided".

Liturgical Movement

At almost the same time, in Germany Abbot Ildefons Herwegen of Maria Laach convened a liturgical conference in Holy Week 1914 for lay people.

Lucumi

Lucumi language, a Yorùbá dialect and the liturgical language of Santería

Marius Aventicensis

His metrical tomb inscription of unknown date, published in Gallia Christiana, extols him as an ideal bishop; as a skilled goldsmith who made the sacred liturgical vessels with his own hands; as a protector and benefactor of the poor who ploughed his own land; as a man of prayer, and as a scholar.

Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno

The vocation of the Monastic Family of Bethlehem, of the Assumption of the Virgin and of Saint Bruno communities consists in listening to the Gospel with the Blessed Virgin Mary in the heart of the Church, in love, in solitude, through liturgical life, study, work and poverty.

Monotonic scale

The Annotated Book of Common Prayer similarly notes that (according to Saint Augustine) Saint Athanasius discouraged variance in note in liturgical recitation, but that eventual modulation of the note led to the development of plainsong.

Oratio Imperata

Oratio Imperata (Latin: Obligatory Prayer) is a set of Roman Catholic invocative prayers consisting of a liturgical action and a short, general prayer which the local ordinary or prelate of the church may publicly pray when a grave need or calamity occurs.

Ordines Romani

The Ordines Romani (Latin for Roman Orders) are collections of documents that are the rubrics for various liturgical services, including the early Medieval Mass, of the Roman Rite.

Patrick Fahey

He subsequently lectured in Liturgical and Sacramental Theology at the Catholic Theology and Religious Education at the Australian Catholic University (N.S.W.).

Paul F. Bradshaw

He is also a priest-vicar of Westminster Abbey, an honorary canon of the Episcopal Diocese of Northern Indiana, a member of the Church of England Liturgical Commission.

Pius Parsch

He was a leading figure in the Liturgical Movement, publishing the results of recent liturgical scholarship in popularly accessible books in German.

Primicerius

In the regulation of the common life of the clergy in collegiate and cathedral churches, according to the Rule of Chrodegang and the statutes of Amalarius of Metz, the primicerius appears as the first capitular after the archdeacon and archpresbyter, controlling the lower clerics and directing the liturgical functions and chant.

Ramsey Psalter

Its script and decoration suggest that it was made at Winchester, but certain liturgical features have suggested that it was intended for use at the Benedictine monastery of Ramsey, or for the personal use of Ramsey's founder St Oswald.

Roman Catholic devotions to Jesus Christ

The Feast of the Sacred Heart is now a holy day in the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and is celebrated 19 days after Pentecost.

Siirt

An illuminated manuscript known as the Syriac Bible of Paris may have originated from the Bishop of Siirt's library, Siirt's Christians would have worshipped in Syriac, a liturgical language related to Arabic still in use by the Chaldean Rite, other Eastern Christians in India, and the Nestorians along the Silk Road as far as China.

Simon Mark Aiken

In 2009 he was invited by Archbishop Thabo Makgoba to be Champion for the Anglican Church of Southern Africa’s Liturgical Transformation Task Team.

Stephen of Autun

at Baugé (hence in Anjou; d. at the abbey of Cluny in 1139 or early in 1140), surnamed Blagiacus or de Balgiaco, was a French liturgical writer and bishop of Autun.

Sudra

Sudarium, is a Latin word, literally meaning 'sweat cloth', used for wiping the face clean and now associated with Christian liturgical usage and art.

Sydney Watson

In 1965 he conducted the first performance of Walton's The Twelve, and in 1967 he directed what was probably the first liturgical performance of Taverner's Missa Corona Spinea for four hundred years.

Templon

The late 12th-century templon beam shows twelve canonical feast scenes, with the Deesis (Christ enthroned, flanked by Mary and St. John the Baptist) located in the middle between the Transfiguration and the Raising of Lazarus, linking the scene of Lazarus with the Holy Week images according to liturgical practice.

The Book of Common Worship of 1906

The book relied heavily on the liturgical reforms of the Church of Scotland and incorporated much of the liturgical tradition from the Episcopal Book of Common Prayer.

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds

The Clothworkers Consort of Leeds (TheCCLeeds), previously the Leeds University Liturgical Choir, was formed by Dr Bryan White, Dr Stephen Muir and Prof. Philip Wilby of the School of Music, University of Leeds in 2002, with the primary purpose of performing sacred choral music in liturgical settings.

Western Rite

Western Rite Orthodoxy, Churches in communion with other Eastern Orthodox Churches who use a traditionally Western liturgical format

Whitsunday Islands

The term is a mis-nomer, based as it is on Captain Cook’s naming of what is now known as the Whitsunday Passage (in Cook’s Journal, Whitsunday’s Passage) in the belief that the passage was discovered on Whitsunday, The Sunday of the feast of Whitsun or Pentecost in the Christian liturgical year, observed 7 weeks after Easter.

William Thomas Russell

In 1909, he inaugurated the Pan-American Mass, an annual liturgical celebration held at St. Patrick's on Thanksgiving.

Wreckovation

In the United States, a prominent liturgical design consultant as well as Roman Catholic priest Richard S. Vosko who has presided over a good number of church renovations is generally seen as one of the primary proponents of the emphasis away from the traditional.


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