Category: Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy
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Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer
We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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At odds with ourselves: the calendrical conflicts of bi-ritual ecclesial communities
Many parishes have one Sunday liturgy using the prayer book, and the others using the newer resources.
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Doing Liturgical Formation
The children burn palms to make ashes, have instruction and conversation on the meaning of ashes, of Lent, and of preparing (exercising their spiritual muscles) to get ready for Easter.
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Paradoxes of our ecclesiae: altars, women, and ad orientem
The practice of ad orientem presiding may look similar (and is similar) in different ecclesial communities, but the impetus and advocacy shape the conversation for and against in very different ways.
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Church Attendance in the CofE: 14% Decline in 10 Years
Over at Catholic Herald, Stephen Bullivant gives his analysis – as usual for him, incisive and witty – on “Statistics for Mission,” the annual report from the Church of England. Here’s a taste of the sobering data: Between 2006 and 2016 (not in itself a vast span of time): “Usual Sunday Attendance” has fallen by 14…
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The Theme of Today’s Liturgy is…squash?
The dreaded opening sentence: “The theme of today’s liturgy is…”
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My Two Offices
I still struggle to identify which aspects of this worship schedule is most ascetical for me: the way it pulls me from my real office or the way my sinfulness is exposed as the Office prays me.
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Are you willing to help?
All in attendance have a stake in the past, present, and future of God’s history with those to whom the church directs its sacramental ministry.
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Remaining Rites for ACNA Book of Common Prayer Released
The Anglican Church in North America, the largest body of Anglicans who have left The Episcopal Church, has released additional liturgies for the proposed Book of Common Prayer to be implemented in 2019. These rites, the liturgies for Ash Wednesday and Holy Week were approved in January and mark the completion of the proposed BCP‘s…