What do you think: is distance maybe as much or possibly even more of a discussion to be had than which way the priest faces? And somewhere in this discussion is a sense of transcendence and a sense of immanence.
Presiding East or West? Read More »
Some reflections on ad orientem – eastward presiding.
Ad Orientem – Eastward Presiding Read More »
How to make liturgy less of a reciting of lovely poetic pieces at each other.
Liturgical Individualism Read More »
Is it appropriate for a deacon to baptise at the Eucharist? Or should the priest or bishop leading the Eucharist be the one to baptise?
A Deacon Baptising At The Eucharist? Read More »
This isn’t a post to rehash the USA controversy around Fergie’s singing of “The Star-Spangled Banner” during the 2018 NBA All-Star Game. This is segueing from that to leading worship. When we lead worship, are we doing that within the community? With the community? For the community? Or, to the community? It seems to me
With You, For You, To You? Read More »
The language we use, the words we choose, form lenses for the reality we are talking about. At the Sacra Liturgia conference in London on Tuesday last week, Cardinal Robert Sarah, Prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, asked that priests begin presiding at the Eucharist ad orientem, that
Around God’s Table Read More »
