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"Before the beautiful-no, not really before but within the beautiful-the whole person quivers. He not only 'finds' the beautiful moving; rather, he experiences himself as being moved and possessed by it."
- Hans Urs von Balthasar

"Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher."
- Flannery o'Connor

"Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, stewards of the new day that is dawning."
- NT Wright

"When we think our brother or sister has sinned against us, such an affront is not just against us but against the whole community. A community established as peaceful cannot afford to let us relish our sense of being wronged without exposing that wrong in the hopes of reconciliation."
- Stan Hauerwas

"Advertising treats all products with the reverence and the seriousness due to sacraments."
- Thomas Merton

"All the believers were of one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possesions was their own, but they shared everything that they had."
- Acts of the Apostles

"For evil men account those things alone evil which do not make men evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and yet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It grieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if it were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself."
- St. Augustine

(reading)

The Eucharist of the Early Christians

The Collected Short Stories, Flannery o'Connor

The Kingdom of God is Within You, Tolstoy

(have read)

Crossing the Threshold of Hope, Pope John Paul II

God is Near Us, Pope Benedict XVI

Heretics/Orthodoxy, GK Chesterton

Sonnets from the Portuguese, Elizabeth Barret Browning

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Tuesday, September 19, 2006

Suggestions?

Hey everybody! I have finally completed my preliminary outline. I'm sure it will need to be revised but this is the basic form I am taking with my chapter. No, it won't be THAT boring, I promise. I still need a title. I was informed it was depressingly academic and that as an undergrad I'm not allowed to say things like that. Whatever. So, if you have any ideas, let me know.

I was thinking, "Why Protestants ought to become christians again," but I don't think many people find that as funny as I do.

Collect of the Incarnation (BCP)

I. Why liturgy?
A. Foundation of Christian Worship
1. Origin of term
2. Skeleton of our being
B. True worship
1. Orderly
2. Spirit-led
C. Essence of Christian Ministry.
II. What is the heart of the Liturgy?
A. Eucharist life
1. Grace by sacrament
2. Sanctified worship
3. True (organic) living
B. "Acting out" our redemption
1. Communities of Exodus
2. Stories of restoration
III. Liturgical lifestyle
A. Disciplined life
B. A life of freedom
1. Never a slave to liturgy
2. "Servant of the people"
C. Christian living
1. Identity
a. Immersion in story
b. seperate ethic
2. Meaning
IV. Conclusion
A. Importance of liturgical worship
1. Regular
2. Catholic
B. Liturgical re-discovery
1. Emerging communities
2. Traditional settings (mine)

Prayer for the unity of the church (BCP)

(Blogger keeps messiing up my outline. If you want to see it as it ought to be seen, email me at: potatocore@gmail.com)

posted by -mike- at 9:15 AM

 

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