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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Table to Table
Ritual meal practices are interesting to me. From how places ‘ought’ to be set at table – depending on what sort of meal it is – to the habitual seating patterns within a household (an indexing function, just as in … Continue reading
Posted in Liturgical Theology, Pastoral
Tagged altar, Eucharist, grace, sabbath, seder, table
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Fill the jars with water
This is a condensed form of the sermon I preached last Sunday, January 17th, 2010. The Wedding at Cana, John 2:1-11. And so Jesus turns to the servants and says, “Fill the jars with water.” These stone jars, purification jars, … Continue reading
Prayer, Need, and Action
I have been committed to writing on a daily basis here – and was being fairly consistent with that these last two weeks – but as I began to hear news of the horrifying earthquake in Haiti, I lost my … Continue reading
Real Absence
A friend on facebook commented that she was keenly aware of the empty space where her Christmas tree had been. Our living room, too, has a blank space (with dried needles on the floor, of course) where our tree stood … Continue reading
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Tagged 9/11, absence, christmas tree, epiphany, eschatology, Eucharist, presence, prolepsis, tribute in light, twin towers
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Liturgical innovation
This is a subject which is, a priori, objectionable to some. There is a value in continuity and stability in liturgical expression for a community, to some extent. Liturgy that has neither continuity nor stability is quickly unrecognizable as liturgy: … Continue reading
NAAL – Conclusion
The final day of this year’s meeting for the North American Academy of Liturgy ended as it usually does – breakfast together along with the Berakah Award recipient giving an address as response to the award. Gail Ramshaw, known especially … Continue reading
NAAL – Day Two
Liturgical Theology Seminar today finished the discussion of a paper from yesterday (which I missed since I went to the Advent Project) and then turned to Don Salier’s brief paper “Synaesthesia and the St. John’s Bible.” Don is one of … Continue reading
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Tagged berakah award, Don Saliers, Gail Ramshaw, liturgy, NAAL, synaesthesia
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NAAL – Day One Addendum
In the late afternoon, I skipped over to a different Seminar Group: the Advent Project. The Advent Project is interested in revising the liturgical calendar to extend Advent to begin after All Saints’, approximately. Friend and colleague Laura Moore was … Continue reading
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Tagged Advent Project, Liturgical Theology, NAAL
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NAAL – Day One
Our Morning Worship was a setting of Lauds led by the Medieval Studies seminar group, primarily in Latin and beautifully chanted. Within this particular population, most people probably know enough Latin that it was ‘understood of the people’ but certainly … Continue reading
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Tagged Daly, Latin, Liturgical Theology, liturgy, NAAL, sacrifice
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NAAL – Anglican Colloquium meeting
The gathering of Anglicans just prior to NAAL is always an interesting and collegial group. Usually we hear reports from representatives of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church and have some conversation around areas of common interest … Continue reading
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