My daughter, Anne, at Butler University, sent the following article to dear, old dad. I thought it worth sharing. Tom Poelker St. Louis MO USA Churches...
Thank you for the helpful and interesting responses I have received to my original enquiry about Tenebrae. I was not quite clear from the responses just how...
I am perhaps inordinately fascinated with these things: I had a lovely chat yesterday with the Reverend Mother of the Order of St Anne during their annual...
Go here and then click "Psalms for Testing." http://www.renewingworship.org [There's a new Daily Prayer volume available too.] -- Scott R. Knitter Edgewater,...
Dear Brethren and Friends, Here is a brief update on my mom, who had been hospitalized for troubles with a leaking blood vessel catheter. This is an excerpt...
I have a question that is more sacrament related than liturgy related but I hope you will indulge me. I am a chaplain at a nursing home and there is a lady who...
Hi folks, I'm teaching a series this coming Advent that will incorporate both studies in the prophetic aspects of Advent as well as some liturgical movement...
I apologize for asking a question that has probably been answered a score of times on this list. A friend in a distant Roman Catholic parish was asked to help...
The Anglican-Music list is busted, somehow, so I'm passing this urgent request along for a member of that list. Please reply privately to me, and I'll pass...
Well you asked for something provocative to stir the pot and I'm always willing to oblige... This is from another, uh, *non* liturgical list. -Kendall Reimer ...
I don't seem to have received any mail since 15 September 2004. Is this normal? I am a new comer to this list. I'm an Anglican priest from Cape Town South...
Dear Friends, My mother just underwent a procedure to open a blocked artery in the heart. The result of this is that the site where the heart catheter was...
The following may have no direct applicability to you, but I would suggest it does to the church at large. Therefore, I would hope that you might take the time...
I think some respondents have missed a central point in the lengthy discussion of Anglo-Catholic practices as it evolved. Liturgy is a particular form of...
Hello: I am mostly an avid reader of this list, do not post very much, but I appreciate the knowledge of the rest of the group. Being a convert to Anglicanism...
I think there is logic to the ordo, at least to the degree that we ensure the "4 basic food groups" of Christian worship are met (we have to get folks in the...
I don't post often but when I saw this I thought some here might find it interesting. If not, my apologies. Specific abuses are addressed by RS followed by...
Before we start throwing around newly-minted terms like "liturgical restoration" in opposition to "liturgical renewal" it is worth looking at each parish in...
I started a project last night, rather than watch the Republican Convention, to find the RC (or Anglican, but it'll probably be Roman Catholic) church that has...
+++ ... I'm not sure you could say that. Non-participatory, theocratic, nation-glorifying liturgy was also the mode of worship in the jewish temple in the old...
... that was likely somewhat around the time when one of the ways one could politely address bishops was, "Your Rotundity,...." regards, john burnett...
I cut and pasted the following op ed piece by Dr. Leonard Swidler, Roman Catholic theologian and professor at Temple Unviersity, in regard to the issue of...
Dear List: Please forgive me, but I am selling several books in an effort to clean house and gather enough money to put toward my textbooks this semester (I'm...
I would identify legal validity as an important part of a liturgical "restoration" attitude. Thus, some tridentine groups want permission to celebrate Holy...
I thought Justin Wilson died some years ago. (Wasn't he the ex-sheriff who had the delightful Cajun/Bayou cooking shows?) The reason to list only the dearly...
Friends: Since a choir with which I am affiliated is planning to perform the Bach St. John next March, I have begun working on the program. To that end, if...
The Commandments of Saint Basil the Great to Priests Study, O Priest, to make yourself a blameless worker, rightly dividing the word of truth. Never stand at...
Hello, everyone! We're having our annual meeting of "Diocesan Liturgy Directors" in a few weeks, here in Argentina. We'll be working on the "Lineamenta" for...
I was the best man at a Catholic wedding yesterday and during the exchange of vows and prayers, the couple faced the congregation with the priest standing...
