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Tag: Liturgy
Fixing the date of Easter
… if modern Christians wished to ascribe a date for Easter based on Humphreys’ calculations, which he has been mulling over since 1983, Easter Day would fall on the first Sunday in April.
Historic Chrism mass celebrated in Bethlehem PA
This past Thursday the fruits of the trilateral full communion agreement between Episcopalians, Moravians and Lutherans were on display at the annual service of the
How to make a palm cross
It’s the Saturday before Palm Sunday. In many congregations (mine included) this is the day people gather to make small crosses out of the palms
The song of Jesus
When Barbara Brown Taylor was recently asked to preach on “Word and Music” for a special service, she began to search out what Jesus had to say about music in the Gospels. She found very little, and what little was there was not very complimentary. But then she looked up the use of the word “hymn” in the Gospels.
Bosco on lay presidency
Bosco Peters writes on his blog Liturgy about the proposal to institute lay presidency of the eucharist in the Diocese of Sydney of the Anglican Church in Australia.
A litany for Japan
For the wisdom, resources, and technological skill that a nuclear disaster might be averted, Arise O Christ and help us.
Ash Wednesday videos
Ash Wednesday goes Web 2.0: Who would have thought that so many folks would be making Ash Wednesday videos?
Same sex blessings consultation to be webcast
The Episcopal Church Office of Communication will live webcast all the plenary sessions of the March 18 and 19 churchwide consultation by the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM).
The Super Bowl as liturgy
The Super Bowl is the great liturgy of the United States of America and for many around the world. It binds us together across the usual divides of class and race, even if you are among those who never watch football. Like our liturgies of the church it has its own rhythms and order. Good and evil contend for our allegiances.