Divine Liturgy

Sage 1. Explain what the feast is about. Answer: Yom Kippur is considered an exceptionally important holiday, if not the most important in Jewish custom. In this 25 hour period, a complete Sabbath is held and no food is to be eaten nor work done the entirety of the day. Additionally, water is not consumed during this time. 2. Why is the feast celebrated? Answer: Yom Kippur, also known as the Day of Atonement, is the holiest day in Jewish culture. The entire purpose of the celebration is to…

The Role of a Christian King Mahatma Gandhi once said, “Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.” Politics and religion have been intertwined since the first man knelt down to pray to his god or gods. Throughout the rise of the early church kings attempted to govern their domains as effective rulers and good Christians. However, this raised the question of what are the duties of Christian king? Charles the Great and Henry the IV were emperors of the…

The book, The Lord Reigns: A Theological Handbook to the Psalms is written by James L. Mays. It is a book about the book of Psalms viewed as a scripture and a liturgy. The book is concerned with the use of Psalms, and how its central message of the Lord reigns is portrayed. Mays proposes that the word “the Lord reigns” is the main point of Psalms that describes the sovereignty of God. It describes the contents and context of the Psalms individual and as a whole in relation to the other books of…

Baptism is a very elaborate rite of passage in anyones life It was considered almost of equal importance to the sacred liturgy of the Eucharist. To realize the huge impact the role of women deacons had made in the ministration and administering of baptism for female catechumens, the ritual has to be explained step by step. The sequence of events could vary from place to place…

While all streams are universal in holding that each individual has an innate, divine link with Creation, and shares a responsibility for its nurture, some movements hold that different cultures rightly express this link in different ways. As such, some Neopagans decry what they see as cultural appropriation, for instance of Native…

Not In a Corner I Divine Healing always is always a controversial topic in both Christian and secular circles. It was commanded as an essential ministry by Jesus and was intimately tied to the proclaiming of the Gospel. It has been faithfully sought after in prayer by the Christian Church through the ages to the present. “Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord, and the prayer offered in faith will make…

Dante's Divine Comedy follows the spiritual-journey of "Dante the Pilgrim" through Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise. Pilgrimages were popular religious practices at the time. People ventured off to holy-shrines to show devotion to their faith. Churches taxed people…

The English Revolution was a struggle between Charles I and parliament for ultimate authority over the country. The French Revolution was directed against the absolute monarchy of Louis XVI. Both monarchs ruled under the idea of Divine Right, the doctrine that says that a monarch is subject to no earthly authority. Louis XIV and Charles I did a poor job ruling their country by starting wars and overspending to live extravagant lifestyles. One common factor of these revolutions was a financial…

themselves with the intellectuals, politicians, and rules of Ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome. As such, the Gothic architecture style began to fall out of fashion. Gothic was difficult to describe, instruct, and obtain. It was associated with the divine realm. At a time when the importance of man and humanity flourished, the population preferred structures that reminded them of the great men of the past, and thus connected them to this history. Bork also discusses how Gothic architects…

family, on Saturday, September 26, 2015. The Greek Orthodox Church of Knoxville began in 1915; the Nicola Cazana family was the first to arrive. They wanted the Greek customs and culture to thrive in America. In 1935, the first Greek Orthodox Divine Liturgy began with an itinerant priest at St. John’s Episcopal Church. The priest was Father Demetrios Cassis; he was from…