CS Lewis on Liturgy
“It looks as if Anglican clergy believe people can be lured to go to church by incessant brightenings, lightenings, lengthenings, abridgements, simplifications and complications of the service.”
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“It looks as if Anglican clergy believe people can be lured to go to church by incessant brightenings, lightenings, lengthenings, abridgements, simplifications and complications of the service.”
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Lead me from death to life,
from falsehood to truth;
lead me from despair to hope,
from fear to trust;
lead me from hate to love,
from war to peace.
Let peace fill our heart,
our world, our universe.
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In a church that desperately needs renewal in common worship and spirituality, the perception of the irrelevant aridity of liturgy is reinforced by debating removing “the” from “The Season of Easter”.
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“If you are wise therefore you will show yourself a reservoir and not a channel. For a channel pours out as fast as it takes in; but a reservoir waits until it is full before it overflows, and so communicates its surplus” – St Bernard of Clairvaux
I am convinced that ancient, timeworn disciplines and wisdom – especially from our Christian roots in the desert, refined in the monastic laboratory – can enable and enrich our Christian lives. 6 October is the commemoration of St Bruno, founder of the Carthusians – one of the orders of monks and nuns that profoundly inspires me.
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Today, Holy Cross Day, is 20 years since I formally became an Associate of Our Lady of the Southern Cross Cistercian Monastery, Kopua. This is comparable to third orders for some Religious Orders – trying to live Cistercian spirituality as much as possible beyond the monastery.
Holy Cross Day 14 September 2022 Read More »
A third sermon using Charles de Foucauld as a lens.
Charles de Foucauld Holy Week 3 Read More »