Soon enough, English-speaking Roman Catholics will discover the (very) mixed blessing of their new translation. The rest of us stand to lose not only the experience of sharing with them common texts, but also the ongoing outgrowth of musical fruits engendered by those texts.
Posts Tagged Book of Common Prayer
We live in an age imbued with a restless desire for change. It sometimes seems that nothing old, nothing well established, nothing which has evolved through centuries of experience and loving use escapes our urge to diminish, revise or abolish it.
Collect Interruptions
Jun 28
I’ve become interested lately in the syntax and word order of the Collect (=Opening Prayer =Prayer of the Day).
Lost Holiness?
Mar 16
Making the Holy Eucharist the normative worship service in Episcopal churches has created a challenge of retaining the Eucharist’s profound sense of holiness, says a professor of liturgics at the General Theological Seminary in New York.
As an Episcopalian, I live and work in a church that has tried to deal accommodatingly with liturgical change—and has done so for some time. And in spite of all the headline-grabbing difficulties in the Episcopal Church and in the Anglican Communion, there remains a lot of room for positive, healthy diversity in expression, especially on the level of parish life.