Currently, Covid has put paid to the chalice at Communion.
And, I’m sorry, this article is not going to solve the issue – but it may help outline some of the problems, some of the suggested solutions, and problems with some of the solutions. It may help people, at least, to see that this is not straightforward.
The church’s new year begins on Advent Sunday, November 28. In the three year lectionary the focus is on St Luke’s Gospel.
God of hope,
give us grace to cast away the works of darkness,
and to put on the armour of light,
now in the time of this mortal life,
in the which your Son Jesus Christ came to us in great humility;
so that on the last day when he shall come again in his glorious majesty
to judge the living and the dead,
we may rise to the life immortal,
through him who lives and reigns with you
and the Holy Spirit now and for ever.
Amen.
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Biblical Hebrew does not have a future tense. Have you thought that English forms our “future tense” by cobbling together bits to do so?
‘No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak; otherwise, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and a worse tear is made. And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; otherwise, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost, and so are the skins; but one puts new wine into fresh wineskins.’
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I am delighted that in 2022’s Lectionary booklet, the full collection of collects that I was asked to draft, is included. Six persons were asked to produce traditional, Trinitarian collects connected to the Gospel reading. For Year C, I was asked to produce collects for Ordinary Time.
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Sovereign God,
it is your will to gather up all things
in your beloved one,
reigning in the universe
in the power that is love,
mercifully grant
that the whole of creation,
freed from slavery,
may serve and praise you
through Jesus Christ
who is alive with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen.
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It has been some time since I focused on the Synagogue readings – they are foundational for liturgy and lectionary. This Sabbath is 2 Kislev 5782 – Parshat Tol’dot (Genesis 25:19-26:5) is set to be read: The Birth of Jacob and Esau and selling of the birthright. Esau Had the Means and Motive. Why Didn’t
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