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Sweet, Sweet Spirit: Prayer Services from the Black Catholic Church
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The call to engage the laity in the prayer life of the church underlies "Sweet, Sweet Spirit." The old should bless the young. The adults should offer protection to the old and the young. The very young should practice their faith in the presence of their elders. And the church should shout, 'Amen.'
--from the Introduction
Communal prayer in the Black Catholic tradition has been one of the most creative developments in the last half-century of liturgical development. This collection of prayer services from the Black Catholic church holds a few examples of how the Black Catholic community has been working on building the stones of our journey (Joshua 4:19-14), stones built on the lives of our ancestors of faith, the songs of our brothers and sisters, the dances of our most ancient kin and the sounds of the drums that guided them.
Authors Brown and Cheri composed prayer services that allow for "emotional, effective, dramatic, soulful performance in worship." The prayer services provide inspiration to evangelize and are ecumenical.
"Sweet, Sweet Spirit" features:
- Libation rituals
- Prayer services for gathering, blessing the home, Black History Month, presentation in the Temple, reconciliation, Good Friday, Thea Bowman, women, men's day, youth retreat, funerals and dedications
- Litany of the saints
- General intercessions
- Anointing for evangelization
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Item Specifications...
Pages 100
Dimensions: Length: 11" Width: 8.48" Height: 0.35"
Weight: 0.78 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Aug 1, 2006
Publisher ST ANTHONY MESSENGER PRESS
ISBN 0867166266
EAN 9780867166262
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 | Authentically Black and Truly Catholic Jul 17, 2007 |
The introduction to these 23 prayer services offers highlights from the history of the modern Black Catholic Church. It includes references to pre-Vatican II research on the roots of African theologies and philosophies; the 1969 exhortation from Pope Paul VI to the African church to offer its gift of blackness to the world; and the 1984 call from the Black Bishops of the Unites States for "authentically Black" and "truly Catholic" liturgies. Fr. Brown began the project that led to this book during the Civil Rights movement and what he calls a "parallel revolution" in U.S. chapels and churches.
The services here reflect Fr. Brown's understanding that people rooted in African theologies and philosophies have a unique way of conceiving the human, communal, and divine. They also embody the emotional, effective, dramatic, and soul-full performance in the faith assembly that characterizes African worship. Content often focuses on naming and honoring ancestors, as in the litany of Black saints, which features a calendar of more than 80 feast days. Ritual, evangelization, public personal prayer, and music, the specialty of Fr. Cheri, are also treated in detail.
The book includes services for men, women, youth, and children; reconciliation; Good Friday; and Black History Month. Many are appropriate for or can be adapted by ecumenical groups, and all can be used as inspiration for new services that are authentically Black and truly Catholic.
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