Category: Lutheran Liturgy
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Historic Meeting between the Archbishop of Uppsala and Pope Francis
Yesterday Archbishop of Uppsala Antje Jackelén led a delegation of Lutherans to the Vatican 26 years after Pope John Paul II visited the Nordic nations.
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Interviewing Liturgical Leaders: Gordon Lathrop
Gordon W. Lathrop is a pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and a retired professor of liturgy.
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A Gift from the Danish West Indies to New Jersey and New York
What do you say — how do you pray — in the aftermath of a hurricane?
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A Reformation Meditation for Those Who Shape Worship
In a time of liturgical questions, changes, challenges, reforms, and reforms of reforms, filled with arguments, disputes, power plays, and power players, perhaps a bit of psalmist-inspired Reformation perspective is in order. If it worked for 16th century Martin Luther and 20th century Roman Catholic hymnal editors, perhaps we 21st century folk can profit from…
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Disagreeing… and Singing Hymns to Jesus
by Karen Edwards “Can we be different, and yet, at the end of our days – Roman Catholics and Confessional Lutherans and Christians of all denominations – gather together and sing hymns to Jesus in a harmony that is a foretaste of the heavenly choir to come?”
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10 years of full communion between Anglicans and Lutherans
Bishops Katharine Jefferts Schori (Episcopal), Mark Hanson (ELCA), Fred Hiltz (Anglican) and Susan Johnson (ELCC) participated in unique simultaneous eucharistic liturgies on either side of the U.S.-Canadian border.
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“Ancient Liturgy for Today’s Tulsa”
“The center of our life here is gathering for our Divine Service of Holy Communion every Sunday, and our life together grows out of that.” — Pastor Mason Beecroft
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O Emmanuel
As Lutheran Christians, we own the fact that we are often thought of as the family of Christians ‘prone to excessive singing,’ as one Episcopalian wag put it.
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Lutheran leader seeks Communion agreement with pope
The president of the Lutheran World Federation is calling on Lutherans and Catholics to issue a common statement on Holy Communion to mark the 500th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation in 2017. “Eucharistic hospitality” means that Catholics would be able to receive Communion at Lutheran worship services, and Lutherans would be able to do the…