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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Category: Episcopal/Anglican Liturgy
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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Sarum Sequence for the Fourth Sunday of Advent
Continuing my project of presenting the Sarum rite sequences of Advent
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Sarum Sequence for the Third Sunday of Advent
Continuing my project of offering translations and versifications of sequences appearing in the Sarum rite marking the four Sundays of Advent.
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Sarum Sequence for the Second Sunday of Advent
This sequence seems closer to a hymn of the day, inspired by the scriptures proclaimed at this eucharist in the Sarum Rite.
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Sarum Sequence for the First Sunday of Advent
This Advent, I would like to offer translations and versifications of four sequences appearing in the Sarum rite.
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Do we still have a king?
There is a curious feature in the Prayer of the Faithful for Episcopalians: we tend to give tremendous airtime to the executive branch. One might suspect that this is the result of some sort of residual effect of its historic relationship to the Church of England. But a look at the history of the texts says otherwise.
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Wrestling with Words: Inclusive Language and the Difficulties of Prayer
We should always seek more adequate language about God, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking that by doing so we can free ourselves from having to wrestle with the words in all their gendered, historical, concrete specificity.
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At odds with ourselves: the calendrical conflicts of bi-ritual ecclesial communities
Many parishes have one Sunday liturgy using the prayer book, and the others using the newer resources.
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