Lizette Larson, Author at PrayTellBlog

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Remembering, Societas Liturgica Style

August 15, 2019 Lizette Larson Conferences / Workshops / Meetings Ecumenism

Along with two hundred other liturgists from around the church catholic and the globe, I was part of the Congress of Societas Liturgica (5-10 August

Singing Our Songs of Joy and Lament

July 15, 2019 Lizette Larson Inculturation Music: General

In his blog on this site last week (6 July), Michael Joncas gave a wonderful overview of the Irish Church Music Association gathered in Maynooth,

Reconciling Differences: The importance of symbolic actions

May 13, 2019 Lizette Larson Conferences / Workshops / Meetings Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy

In a moment, an ancient gesture became the bearer of new meanings – the temporal expansion of symbol pointing beyond itself to new interpretations of understanding.

Palms and Crosses, Victory and Passion: The Tensions of Palm Sunday

April 11, 2019 Lizette Larson Liturgical year

It began innocently enough, the Archdeacon responsible for the parish where I am serving at the moment asked why Anglicans fold their Palm Sunday palm

Something Old, Something New: The Use of Sarum

March 12, 2019 Lizette Larson Art and Architecture Liturgical Movement Music: Chant

What can a late medieval inculturation of the Roman Rite offer us today? Plenty! The Sarum Use is a rich collection of music and ritual that particularly reminds us of the importance of moving – processions and stations marking our journey as a pilgrim church into the heart of God.

Liturgical Formation and Global Agreement IALC 2019

February 12, 2019 Lizette Larson

Fewer and fewer ordination candidates are going to major seminaries in the Anglican tradition

Liturgical Formation in the Body of Christ: a Canadian Experiment

January 10, 2019 Lizette Larson Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy Initiation / RCIA

What are your new ways of rekindling the desire for God within Christian communities?

The bizarre effects of Christmas bazaars

December 10, 2018 Lizette Larson Liturgical year Popular Piety

The rejection of a “mini” Lent theology of Advent (almost always without any sense of the history of the season) is growing alongside the tsunami of the retail Christmas.