Category: Liturgy
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Tuesday Night, T3
Canon Project, Compline of Tuesday in the 3rd Tone. “The time of my life has vanished like smoke, and I have arrived at the gateway of death. I fear the assault of the demons, for I have ever done their works. О all-immaculate one, have pity and save me!”
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Saturday Night, T1
Canon Project, Compline of Saturday in the First Tone. The power of the Most High overshadowed you with the visitation of the divine Spirit, О Virgin, and then, beyond nature, the Lord of all, having endowed flesh and soul with life, united them to Himself, bringing life thereto and remaining in the same nature.
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Wherein We Snap & Play Guitar at Folk Mass
Christ the King Sunday, when it was instituted by Pius the XI in 1925, was placed on the Last Sunday in October. That made it a little awkward for Bible Readings (which still had to be doubled up) and for Calendar keeping. But it made perfect sense: it always came before All Saints Day and…
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Long Liturgy
Why do we think liturgy is too long?
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Paschal Hours
Christ is Risen! In the Eastern tradition, regular hourly prayers are suspended through bright week (from Pascha until the following Saturday). During that time the following Paschal Hours are read for all the “minor” hours – The midnight office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None and Compline – during the day (Matins, Vespers are also in special…
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Source : Summit :: Author : Finisher?
WE USE A VERBAL IMAGE describing the liturgy as “heaven striking earth”. It usually gets used in discussions of “beauty” in Church, sometimes in defense of liturgical practices like incense or vestments. The first time Ukrainians came to Constantinople from Kyiv, they visited a liturgy at Hagia Sophia and reported they “did not know whether…
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Emanentizing the Eschaton
ALTHOUGH WE IN this world experience time as a progression of moments God’s eternity is such that all moments are present in an eternal now. Although philosophers and theologians try to discern how it is that we humans will experience eternity, it seems that for the Divine Eternity there is a way in which one’s…
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Byzantwo
THE PREVIOUS Post was written and posted. Totally forgotten was the point: the bridge used by the writer to open up the “the west” for the fruits of prayer arising in the east was the Liturgy. The Vatican Two “novus ordo” is exactly the Byzantine Divine liturgy, slightly tweaked for Westerners. By way of History,…
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Seeker Vespers
RECENTLY A FEW SOURCES (podcasts, etc) have called out that Vespers is supposed to be a part of Parish life especially on Sunday. I wondered what the source was for this claim and so I asked on Twitter. (When asking questions on Facebook one often addresses the “hive mind”. If doing so on Twitter, should…
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Sanctify Time
MY FIRST INTRODUCTION to the Divine Office was at a very “low” Episcopal parish which did Morning Prayer three Sundays a month. For the longest time I didn’t think of it as anything other than a liturgical version of the “Hymn Sandwich” common in other Protestant communities. This was true, but not in the way…
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But in this time
The Paschal Preface in the Roman Rite is only used from Easter to Ascension (or is it Pentecost? I don’t know). It’s present in the Novus Ordo nearly verbatim from the older order. Borrowing from Rome, the same text is also present in the 79 BCP for Episcopalians and in the People’s Anglican Missal for…
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Sometimes it’s totally needed
✙ JMJ The Readings for Saturday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:44-52 John 14:7-14 Verba quae ego loquor vobis, a meipso non loquor. Pater autem in me manens, ipse fecit opera. The words that I speak to you, I speak not of myself. The Father who abideth in me, he doth the…
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Deep Data from before the Beginning of Time.
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in the 4th Week of Easter (B2) Acts 13:13-25 John 13:16-20 Hujus Deus ex semine secundum promissionem eduxit Israel salvatorem Jesum,Of this man’s seed God according to his promise, hath raised up to Israel a Saviour, Jesus. Of this man’s seed. This one guy. God doesn’t do abstractions. God does particularities.…
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A Community of Christians in Charity with the World
✙ JMJ The Readings for in Easter Week (B2) Acts 4:32-37 John 3:7B-15 Neque enim quisquam egens erat inter illos.For neither was there any one needy among them.They will know we are Christians by our love, y’all. So where are there needy folks sitting in the pew next to you, or on the bus next…
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Sola Scriptura Anonymous
✙ JMJ The Readings for Thursday in Easter Week (B2) Acts 3:11-26 Luke 24:35-48 Tunc aperuit illis sensum ut intelligerent ScripturasThen he opened their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures. The first three classes of my (original) RCIA group, meeting in Columbus, GA, were spent addressing the Church’s teaching on the Bible. Since we were…
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