Author: Lizette Larson
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Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world…
How do we celebrate the eucharist in a time of pandemic? A view from Anglican theology in North America
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‘Unintentionally Shot Down’: Ritual Gatherings in Uncertain Circumstances
“If you play with fire, you will get burned…” That warning of parents and teachers often applied to local and limited issues has been played out on the world stage over the past week. The assassination of a leading Iranian general by the US and the retaliation by Iran in targeting two US military bases…
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Lessons from Lessons and Carols
Tuning into ‘Calm Radio’ is an interesting packaged experience as a pre-selected array of music, categorized by style and era, is presented to produce a particular emotional state of being. I tried the “early baroque” and it was sufficiently numbing to fit the ‘calming’ prescription. But what is the music we listen to supposed to…
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Keep me in the shadow of your wings
For many, the ambiguity of shadow is perhaps an important symbol, a pointing to our partial vision of the economy of God and a faithful participation of life between realities.
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Is it time for chrism masses already? Revisiting the cultures of chrism
How the language of timing the liturgy and the composition of chrism takes on theologies of inculturation and christology.
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Remembering, Societas Liturgica Style
Along with two hundred other liturgists from around the church catholic and the globe, I was part of the Congress of Societas Liturgica (5-10 August 2019), held at Durham, England. Like many academic conferences, Societas Liturgica is thematic, and this year was focused on memory, entitled Anamnesis: Remembering in Action, Space and Time. The six…
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Singing Our Songs of Joy and Lament
In his blog on this site last week (6 July), Michael Joncas gave a wonderful overview of the Irish Church Music Association gathered in Maynooth, Ireland, observing their 50th year of service by remembering Vatican II as well as looking to the future. I’d like to return to that week of music and liturgy in…
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Reconciling Differences: The importance of symbolic actions
In a moment, an ancient gesture became the bearer of new meanings – the temporal expansion of symbol pointing beyond itself to new interpretations of understanding.
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Palms and Crosses, Victory and Passion: The Tensions of Palm Sunday
It began innocently enough, the Archdeacon responsible for the parish where I am serving at the moment asked why Anglicans fold their Palm Sunday palm fronds into small crosses. This form of Anglican origami is, of course, not limited to Anglicans or to the current generation or to this geographical region, but it is observed…