Tag: Liturgy

Why go to church?

… the older I get… – the more I feel that my faith is not primarily a personal thing but a way of sharing the common lot with everybody else.

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ABC to baptize Prince George on Wednesday

The Most Rev Justin Welby will perform the christening at the Chapel Royal at St James’s Palace on Wednesday … the archbishop said he hoped people would not view baptism as only for a future king or “special people”.

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The angry priest or the boorish photographer?

… bad photography (and unconscious photographers) can, like bad liturgy (and unconscious celebrants), get in the way. This is what happened in the video when it went viral: the conversation became about “The Angry Priest vs. The Boorish Photographers” when we should have been celebrating the couple’s marriage.

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Last print version of the Book of Common Prayer

Lamenting or applauding the shift from printed to electronic media is unproductive. The change is occurring both rapidly and irreversibly. However, the increasing reliance on electronic versions of the liturgy represents a troubling and growing challenge to TEC’s identity as a church united by common prayer rather than common belief.

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Funerals at home

by Heidi Haverkamp Recently, I presided at a tiny home funeral. Twenty people gathered in the living room of a mother and son, approximately aged

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