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Murray made a significant musical contribution to Catholic liturgy in respect of the development of congregational participation, notably in the 1939 Westminster Hymnal, [1] and A People's Mass (1950: reprinted many times). [1] It is a simple and tuneful setting, with sales of more than two million copies at the time of Murray's death.
Congregational singing at a church in La Matanza, Argentina, 1972. Congregational singing is the practice of the congregation participating in the music of a church, either in the form of hymns or a metrical Psalms or a free form Psalm or in the form of the office of the liturgy (for example Gregorian chants). [1]
Congregational participation was encouraged with the provision of responses and unison prayers. Finally, the book included an extensive selection from Psalms and Canticles ; the latter's titles were given in Latin ( Magnificat; Nunc Dimittis, Te Deum laudamus etc.), also a significant departure from the Reformed tradition .
The Congregational tradition has shaped both mainline and evangelical Protestantism in the United States. In the 20th century, the Congregational tradition in America fragmented into three different denominations. The largest of these is the United Church of Christ, which resulted from a 1957 merger with the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
When the CC national General Council adopted a "Basis of Union" with the E&R Church in 1948, the dissenters organized into two groups: the Committee for the Continuation of Congregational Christian Churches, formed by the pastor of Los Angeles' Congregational Church of the Messiah, Harry R. Butman; and the League to Uphold Congregational ...
Alternative Worship usually refers to an approach to Christian worship and worship planning that emphasizes decentralized leadership, congregational participation, multi-sensory experience, ritual and narrative form. It is often discussed in contrast to Contemporary worship or "Youth" services.
Connexionalism, also spelled connectionalism, is the theological understanding and foundation of Methodist ecclesiastical polity, as practised in the Methodist Church in Britain, Ireland, Caribbean and the Americas, United Methodist Church, Free Methodist Church, African Methodist Episcopal and Episcopal Zion churches, Bible Methodist Connection of Churches, Christian Methodist Episcopal ...
The Conservative Congregational Christian Conference is a Congregationalist denomination in the United States. [3] It is the most conservative and oldest Congregationalist denomination in America following the dissolution of the Congregational Christian Churches . [ 4 ]