Just in case you thought Episcopalians hadn’t noticed….
There are many ways to serve the Church. It’s easy to accuse the Missal’s critics of disobedience. Those who critique the new text are also serving the Church.
This was to have been our great opportunity to learn the same Mass settings, get our celebrants singing, and get our congregations catechized. In the end, I sense faith-filled pragmatism will win out, as it always has.
“We begin now a time of preparation, together. It should be a joyful time, preparing us to sing a joyful song to the Lord, together as his people.”
I recently had the opportunity to give a paper on the Eritrean Catholic Church at Faith, Art, and the Politics of Belonging in Africa, the combined meeting of SERSAS and SEAN held at UNC Chapel Hill. I began studying Eritrean Christianity in 2003 by praying with and learning from Eritrean Orthodox Christians in San Diego at the beginning of my doctoral studies in cultural anthropology which subsequently lead to my fieldwork in Eritrea in 2005. [MORE...]
Some scholars have called the fourth and fifth centuries “the golden age” of the liturgy. I don’t agree with that assessment; I find beauties and troubling developments throughout the history of liturgy. But the Latin liturgy’s development in that period was certainly organic; in the modern period, the Latin liturgy’s development has in general been inorganic.
Prayer to accept change
Aug 29
I wrote this prayer with the new missal in mind.
If you’re in the area,
Aug 29
some of these presentations might interest you. I see that one is about the new Missal translation.
“Congrega nos” – in 6/8
Aug 29
This is really clever – “Gather Us In” in Latin!
Lutheran split
Aug 29
Any split in the Body of Christ is deeply tragic. And now 2% of ELCA congregations are leaving because of certain culture-war disputes.