Reflections week ahead
A collect reflection for this coming Sunday August 2 is found here. A reflection for the Transfiguration August 6 is found here.
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Episcopal Church liturgy resources
My good e-friend @scottagunn forwarded the URL of the draft liturgical material considered and now approved by the recent General Convention of The Episcopal Church (USA). You can download the report’s 398 pages in PDF form from here. This includes Rachel’s Tears, Hannah’s Hopes Liturgies and Prayers for Healing from Loss Related to Childbearing and
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Dancing and worship
Continuing from yesterday’s post on dancing… Some, of course, have built their places of worship with a sloping floor – explicitly so that the space can never be used for dancing! Some think dancing is sinful – even outside of worship… Choreographing the Trinity Gregory of Nazianzus used the term perichoresis (περιχωρησις) for the relationship
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Lord of the Dance
In Africa I saw the rubrics for the Eucharist that at the Gloria the priest and others in the sanctuary dance around the altar while everyone else dances in their place in the congregation. Here’s a variant from a wedding (Kevin Heinz and Jill Peterson): Biretta tip to my good e-friend Deacon Greg Kandra Before
Readings July 26
Prof. Barber introduces the readings for Sunday July 26 Liturgy Reflection: Sunday, July 26, 2009 from JP Catholic University on Vimeo.
Liturgy as language (part 3)
This series “Liturgy as language” is going in a direction that will be relevant to other contexts (trust me – I know what I’m doing). But this particular post continues and completes the previous post in outlining briefly the New Zealand Anglican context that has brought us to this place. If you are not in
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Hymn commentaries
On twitter and on facebook I have been asking for resources for historical background and commentaries for hymns – especially online ones. I collect those resources here (thanks for all your help – some of the comments are pasted here in quotes). If you know of others please add them in the comments. This site
July 26 Catholics & Anglicans share prayer
This Sunday Roman Catholics and Episcopalians (Anglicans) are once again praying essentially the same prayer. The source is from at least the eighth century: Protector in te sperantium, Deus, sine quo nihil est validum, nihil sanctum: multiplica super nos misericordiam tuam; ut, te rectore, te duce, sic transeamus per bona temporalia, ut non amittamus aeterna.
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