Preparing Intercessions
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13 responses to “Preparing Intercessions”
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I love Dave Walker’s cartoons…
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This reminds me how overblown the intercessions are in some places. Why not just use the ones from other missal,and adapt and add to them as needed? That’s what I always do. They’re concise, yet elevated in language.
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@Ben Yanke – comment #2:
Exactly.Mark Miller
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@Ben Yanke – comment #2:
Well, theologically speaking, because in the Universal Prayer the community makes intercession directly in their capacity as the baptized people of God, as those who share in the common priesthood. A priest makes intercession. When the prayers themselves emerge from the particular worshipping community, even if only in adaptations made to boilerplate intercessions, the local community exercises its priestly dignity.
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You made me laugh, Rita. The woman could be me.
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Show us thy mercy, Lord, and grant us thy salvation.
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I’m with Ben, BTW.
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See how the man in the back pew is slumping in the last drawing!
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Some rather impoverished thinking in the comments so far. The intercessions should hopefully speak to the actualization of the Gospel message as it touches the lives of each community/congregation.
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Writing the Sunday intercessions was my first “regular” liturgical ministry as a college student. In it I learned that Sundays are relentless – coming whether you are ready of not (as the pastor warned me!). It was also the first time in my life I was faithful to reading and praying scripture before mass each Sunday. I dare say that experience so enhanced my participation in and love of liturgy, that it directly led to where I am today – a diocesan worship director.
And thinking back, I know what I wrote was often overblown, too exact to the scriptures, and not quite what the pastor had in mind. But he let me make mistakes and he gently corrected them over the years and it did all get better.
I am always careful to remember I have made a lot of mistakes in liturgy and I’m grateful to the leaders who allowed me to do so and then corrected them so that I could grow.
I would rather parishes have overblown and slightly tortured intercessions that the people actually worked at from a place of love and prayer, then simply copy and repeat because they don’t want to make any mistakes.
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The thread a few back on biblical bases for the intercessions is a good one for all of us to read, especially the referenced comments of Paul Inwood.
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Take a look at the recent thread a few days ago questioning the biblical basis for the intercessions raised by Teresa Berger.
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“[Karl Barth] recalls that 40 years ago he advised young theologians ‘to take your Bible and take your newspaper, and read both. But interpret newspapers from your Bible.'”
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