Worship is God’s initiative to self-disclose to humanity through God’s redemptive acts of love, that amaze us, and invite us to respond in awe, humility, and gratitude while ascribing honor and worth to the one and true God that engages us in a covenantal relationship of love and obedience and gives us the hope of recreation. Worship is the product of experiencing God’s numinous, because God’s love, grace, and mercy are revealed to us.
At that precise moment, our eyes are opened, and a spontaneous response of wonderment happens due to that indescribable encounter with the God-self, which helps us realize how frail we are and how great God is while calling us to enter a redemptive relationship with God that fills us with newness and hope for …show more content…
Furthermore, it provides us the possibility to find our place in God’s narrative as we express our gratitude, sing God’s praises, pay homage to God, live in relationship with God and set a place apart for God, where we meet as a community to celebrate God’s mighty deeds and respond to God’s acts through our practices and ordinances.
For centuries, believers focused on the response to God in ways that allowed them to experience God’s mystery through “sign-acts,” while developing a covenantal relationship with God. James F. White describes God’s mystery by stating: “We can speak of the paschal mystery as the Christian community sharing in Christ’s redemptive acts as it worships.” In worship, there is a sense of awe, respect, and anticipation, that happens inwardly but translates outwardly into practices and …show more content…
Monasticism was the desire to forsake the world and the ever growing secularization of the church, and it brought a whole new understanding of the practice of prayer. “In the mid-fourth century, Basil drew up a set of monastic rules for regulating the daily life of urban monastic groups. He noted eight daily occasions for prayer: early in the morning, at the third hour, at the sixth, at the ninth, when the day’s work is ended, at nightfall, midnight, and before the dawn.” The monastic development responded to the desire to seek God and remain under the biblical counsel of “praying without ceasing.” Later on, Basil summarizes the importance of the daily prayer practice by stressing that: “None of these hours for prayer should be unobserved by those who have chosen a life devoted to the glory of God and His Christ,” meaning all Christians, not just
At that precise moment, our eyes are opened, and a spontaneous response of wonderment happens due to that indescribable encounter with the God-self, which helps us realize how frail we are and how great God is while calling us to enter a redemptive relationship with God that fills us with newness and hope for …show more content…
Furthermore, it provides us the possibility to find our place in God’s narrative as we express our gratitude, sing God’s praises, pay homage to God, live in relationship with God and set a place apart for God, where we meet as a community to celebrate God’s mighty deeds and respond to God’s acts through our practices and ordinances.
For centuries, believers focused on the response to God in ways that allowed them to experience God’s mystery through “sign-acts,” while developing a covenantal relationship with God. James F. White describes God’s mystery by stating: “We can speak of the paschal mystery as the Christian community sharing in Christ’s redemptive acts as it worships.” In worship, there is a sense of awe, respect, and anticipation, that happens inwardly but translates outwardly into practices and …show more content…
Monasticism was the desire to forsake the world and the ever growing secularization of the church, and it brought a whole new understanding of the practice of prayer. “In the mid-fourth century, Basil drew up a set of monastic rules for regulating the daily life of urban monastic groups. He noted eight daily occasions for prayer: early in the morning, at the third hour, at the sixth, at the ninth, when the day’s work is ended, at nightfall, midnight, and before the dawn.” The monastic development responded to the desire to seek God and remain under the biblical counsel of “praying without ceasing.” Later on, Basil summarizes the importance of the daily prayer practice by stressing that: “None of these hours for prayer should be unobserved by those who have chosen a life devoted to the glory of God and His Christ,” meaning all Christians, not just