Sometimes people say that the Christian Faith is in trouble. Numbers of people attending church are down. Many ecclesial institutions have trouble staying open. A
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Category: Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy
Short Commentary: Lay-led house churches in the Church of England?
Christendom is collapsing.
Read moreCommon Prayer as Common Vision?
How does a conversation on prayer in common and the perspectives of different generations bring understanding to differences of perception and expectation? While strictly stereotyping
Read moreDiscerning the essential in sacramental liturgy: ordinations in a time of pandemic
Even in a time of pandemic, the eucharistic is not an optional liturgical context for ordinations, but of the essence of the sacramental action of the Trinity and the Church because of the unity of church, eucharist and priesthood.
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Behold the Lamb of God, who takes away the sins of the world…
How do we celebrate the eucharist in a time of pandemic? A view from Anglican theology in North America
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Is God a “Tourist Attraction”?
I imagine that many readers are already familiar with the photographs of some of England’s ancient cathedrals that have recently been retrofitted with more “relevant”
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Liturgical Centers: Illusion or Fantasy?
It was heaven on earth, an ideal marriage of elegant space and sound.
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Reconciling Differences: The importance of symbolic actions
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.
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Ordinariate Divine Worship Complementary Norms
Today the CDF released some Complementary Normsof the Apostolic Constitution “Anglicanorum coetibus” of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith along with an Explanatory Note. Some
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Liturgical Formation in the Body of Christ: a Canadian Experiment
What are your new ways of rekindling the desire for God within Christian communities?
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