The Naked Liturgist
April 24, 2008
No Comments
The redoubtable Bosco Peters has launched a new feature on his blog that deserves attention for both its name and its flinty sense of humor.
The Archive
Tag: Liturgy
Liturgy, culture and transcendence
March 29, 2008
No Comments
Somehow, liturgy is condemned to be out of date, old, and of a mythic past. Out of this comes a sense of transcendence, a mystical, ineffable, sense of floating gift, by which we can come together more and have a new attitude in one’s step and underline the ethical way we should reach out to one another. One of the difficulties in Anglicanism today is that for many this simply is not good enough.
Music of the season on the Web
March 20, 2008
No Comments
Saint Thomas’ Church on Fifth Avenue in New York City is Web casting audio files of its Holy Week services.
Stations of the MDGs
March 6, 2008
4 Comments
Controversy over a liturgy to bring the Millennium Development Goals into focus during this Lenten season has caught the attention of Christianity Today. The liturgy, which was developed in 2007 by Mike Angell for a young adult conference; Angell notes in the piece that he did not intend it to replace the traditional stations of the cross. But EGR executive director Mike Kinman says that the increased awareness of how many children die every day helps us understand the suffering that still exists in the world.
Churchspeak
March 5, 2008
2 Comments
There is no question about it; the Episcopal Church has a “lingo.” We have almost as many acronyms as the United States government, from LEM (Lay Eucharistic Minister) to EYC (Episcopal Youth Community). We like to give perfectly ordinary things new and complicated names. The church’s lobby becomes the “narthex.”
A varied liturgical portfolio
December 31, 2007
No Comments
By Margret Hjalmarson At St. Anne’s Episcopal Church in Reston, Va., we are pretty proud of being a welcoming, inclusive community. To that end, we’ve
“Public work” at Ground-Zero
October 22, 2007
2 Comments
Trying to describe on the phone to my wife, I said it felt like street preaching on Times Square, or maybe like participating in a life drawing class with a nude model in the main rotunda of the Metropolitan Museum. We were aiming for truthfulness and Gospel, but we were unequivocally doing intimate, heart work, speaking and singing our faith in a very public place.
More on welcoming liturgy
October 11, 2007
12 Comments
Our earlier item on “Welcoming Liturgy” has occasioned a passionate response both on the Café and elsewhere. Some of you have argued that a church should be extremely careful in altering its Sunday morning Eucharist to make it more seeker/stranger-friendly. Okay, but eventually newcomers need to feel comfortable participating in common worship, or else they won’t join our gradually dwindling numbers. So how do we make worship appealing without watering it down?
We never pray alone
October 11, 2007
4 Comments
Medieval breviaries and the missals make me sad. They show a shift in the liturgical culture, a movement away from this vision of the whole community gathered in prayer together. The culture and piety of the eleventh and twelfth centuries began to move to individual priests praying masses and offices on their own. Architecturally, altars proliferated in cathedral sanctuaries and side-chapels, each a niche for a priest on his own.
New prayer book for Reform Judaism
September 4, 2007
1 Comment
The changes reveal a movement that is growing in different directions simultaneously, absorbing non-Jewish spouses and Jews with little formal religious education while also trying to appeal to Jews seeking a return to tradition.
Archives
Categories
©2006-2026 | Episcopal Cafe