The Daily Office is one of the things that drew me into the Episcopal Church. Benedictine in spirit, evangelical in nature, the rhythm of psalmody, the constancy of the Scriptures and the experience of the ebb and flow of the liturgical year guided me into a deeper understanding of the Word of God and the way of the cross revealed therein.
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The Daily Office, the Liturgy of the Hours, Morning and Evening Prayer—call them what you may, but these liturgies to me are at the heart of the Anglican way. I’ve watched commentators wrangle for months and years now on what a real Anglican is.
Derek has posted links to the morning and evening Offices of the Dead at haligweorc, and that seems an appropriate way to mark this mournful
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Happy Easter! Descending Theology: The Resurrection By Mary Karr From the far star points of his pinned extremities, cold inched in — black ice and
Holy Saturday has not inspired an outpouring of excellent poems, but here is a fine one from Denise Levertov called Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell.
Horae Canonicae The phrase means canonical hours, and Auden has written a poem, set on Good Friday, for each of the seven offices of the
Descending Theology: The Crucifixion By Mary Karr To be crucified is first to lie down on a shaved tree, and then to have oafs stretch
I pushed Mary Karr’s wonderful book Sinners Welcome on you at Christmas. Allow me to push it once again. This is “Descending Theology: The Garden”