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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.

GOSPEL COMMUNION: 7th Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 20, 2020 Paul Inwood Gospel Communion Music: General

Commentary on the Psallite communion antiphon – an inspiring reflection on the liturgy of the coming Sunday and feast days.

GOSPEL COMMUNION: 6th Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 13, 2020 Paul Inwood Gospel Communion Music: General

Commentary on the Psallite communion antiphon – an inspiring reflection on the liturgy of the coming Sunday and feast days.

Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley, 5A

February 8, 2020 Other Voices Ars Praedicandi

Salt expends its catalytic powers to melt the ice.

GOSPEL COMMUNION: 5th Sunday in Ordinary Time

February 7, 2020 Paul Inwood Gospel Communion Music: General

Commentary on the Psallite communion antiphon – an inspiring reflection on the liturgy of the coming Sunday and feast days.

Photo by Jill Crainshaw, February 4, 2020

Wild Winter Liturgies

February 5, 2020 Jill Crainshaw

The cedar waxwings arrived yesterday. Waxwings are wonderful, mysterious birds. Here in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, their visits are brief. They come to our backyard for

February 2: Anna, the Prophet, Comments On Luke 2, With her Hands

February 1, 2020 Teresa Berger Liturgical year

Every year, I wonder anew what a “Canticle of Anna” might have sounded like.

Ars Praedicandi: Ed Foley’s Homily for Feast of the Presentation

January 31, 2020 Other Voices Ars Praedicandi

This unexpected feast thus carries an unexpected revelation, an invitation into the court of the Gentiles, into baptismal purification before the Lord, and the nations of the world.