Category: Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy
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Canterbury Cathedral to hold alcoholic ‘rave in the nave’
JAMES HADLEY, OblSB — The Church of England is becoming notorious for holding secular events in the country’s cathedrals in the name of Christian outreach – often times without a sense of boundaries giving offense to dedicated Christians whose presence and stewardship make possible the life of the church….
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Book Review: Vocātiō: Imaging a Visible Church
Doyle imagines clergy allowed out of the parish structure as we have known it for over a thousand years, out of a two-tiered, that is clergy-lay institutional church structure.
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Pray Tell’s Teresa Berger interviews two colleagues about the upcoming Coronation
Since I work, at the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, with two scholars who have real expertise related to the liturgical and musical aspects of the upcoming Coronation (and are both British, too), I sat down with them for a conversation about the liturgy and music to be expected on May 6th. Oh, and I…
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The Beginning of Lent: An Anglican Muddle
I know this post is looking a bit backwards in time because it is focused on Ash Wednesday and the beginning of Lent, but it seems by the First Sunday in Lent it’s time to move on to all the other questions circling around the season which seem more pertinent and urgent, and so it…
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Make Disciples (not liturgical ministers?)
What does this have to do with liturgists and liturgical musicians? When I look back at a lot of parish ministry, I remember so little of my work as a music and liturgy director was about formation. It was mostly about recruiting people.
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An Analogue to Traditionis Custodes in the Episcopal Church
Fourteen months out from Pope Francis’ Moto Proprio, Traditionis Custodes, the Catholic world continues to discuss, debate, opine, and wonder. The question of more than one authorized rite is one that is not unique to the Latin Catholic Church. It is also happens to be a live question in the church where I serve as…
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Anglicans practice communion
Anglicans have been in the news a lot lately, between the General Convention of the Episcopal Church in the US (July 8-11), the first Lambeth Conference since 2008 which just concluded (officially 26 July to 8 August), and news from other provinces caught in the midst of wars, ecological disasters, or internal politics. For the…
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Brief Book Review: Crowning the Year
“An invaluable resource for anyone who wants to engage the liturgical life a rural parish for all its worth.”
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‘Baptismal Ecclesiology Without Baptism?’ What is the Episcopal Church Doing?
Recognizing that the majority of Pray Tell Blog readers are Roman Catholic and the internal arguments of the Anglican Church in the United States (known as the Episcopal Church) are only slightly relevant to the general conversation, I want to present an issue that is alarming in its lack of theological foundation (particularly ecclesiological and…