... To me the idea of "serving" implies that the priest is either the host or a waiter serving dinner, so to speak--both have interesting implications. I...
Blessed be God. Hi, Thomas. Sounds a bit like I may have stepped on your sensibilities in what I wrote yesterday and if so I apologize. Actually, though, I...
Blessed be God. ... we do occasionally use the expression "celebrating" the divine services, but not very often. We do usually speak of "serving" it. I suppose...
Blessed be God. ... Sorry-- sent that one off and this just came in. Somehow to "hear" is too distancing. Like, I "hear" something-- it's over there, and I'm...
From: "Michael Joe Thannisch" <mjthan@...> ... HOW to teach them is yet another question...........especially in our VERY protestantized country where...
Dear John, This is an excellent point. I fact I have seen that the mass has become so encompassing that in areas where priests are at a premium (say the...
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fcsenn@...
Sep 1, 2002 2:23 pm
In a message dated 8/31/2002 1:42:20 PM Central Standard Time, ... Robert Jenson has suggested that there was an aversion to middle eastern cults that saw the...
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TAPoelker@...
Sep 1, 2002 2:52 pm
In a message dated 8/31/02 8:54:22 AM Central Daylight Time, ... Is this true? Or is it that silent meditation has been a parallel spirituality to liturgical...
... There is the Latin correlation between serve and "minister" (at table so it seems). The observable daily context of waiters is a good point to make. RC...
As I'm spending just about every weekend "checking out" the various churches of some liturgical stripe around the Ft. Wayne area, one thing that I seem to...
In a message dated 8/30/2002 19:12:20 Eastern Daylight Time, cantor03@... ... But what shall we read during dull sermons? Sandford MacLean Louisville,...
Just worth a note to this list, perhaps, to observe that the BBC covered Friday evening's service from Ely Cathedral (see below) live on tv, and it is viewable...
... John, You can't go wrong with the classic from St. Mark's Compline Choir,"Feathers of Green Gold." The link is http://www.complinechoir.org/. The CD is...
... It may help to remember who is "being served". (Hint: it's not the congregation.) In the days before restaurants, "he who serves" was called "a servant"....
... But than it seems a bit odd to say "The priest served the Liturgy" as if a meal, rather than "The priest served God in the Liturgy." In other words, the...
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John Seboldt
rohrwerk@...
Sep 1, 2002 8:28 pm
... All according to contemporary documents, of course. I commend you. I'll chime in here, having read these posts but thinking them only the expression of a...
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John Seboldt
rohrwerk@...
Sep 1, 2002 8:29 pm
... All according to contemporary documents, of course. I commend you. I'll chime in here, having read these posts but thinking them only the expression of a...
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fcsenn@...
Sep 1, 2002 8:30 pm
In a message dated 8/31/2002 4:07:14 PM Central Standard Time, ... Dix's postulations have proven to be overly simplistic in the light of more detailed...
... Perhaps it depends on whether the indirect object is unclear and needs to be named. :-) In a "waiter" liturgical tradition, where there might be many ...
It seems to me that meditation is liturgical in so much as it is incorporated into the liturgy. It is Christian in so much as it is practiced in a Christian...
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fcsenn@...
Sep 1, 2002 8:48 pm
In a message dated 8/31/2002 4:30:49 PM Central Standard Time, ... I don't preach at prayer offices. But I have been known to make a few reflective comments...
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fcsenn@...
Sep 1, 2002 8:51 pm
Gee, Dwight, you're giving a reason why Minnesota Lutherans haven't liked CCM that I haven't heard before. :) FCSenn...
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Douglas Cowling
dcowling@...
Sep 1, 2002 9:09 pm
... It is worth looking at the plans and firnishings for the new Cathedral of St. Mary of the Angels in Los Angeles to be dedicated tomorrow. This is the ...
This must be one of the most STERILE looking public buildings (much less churches!) I've seen in ages. Lew ... From: Douglas Cowling...
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cantor03@...
Sep 1, 2002 10:36 pm
Lew wrote: "This must be one of the most STERILE public buildings (much less churches!) I've seen in ages." Well, there you have it in a nutshell, and as Doug...
Sanford, my thoughts 'exactly' (not that I would ever give a dull sermon ;-) AND have often considered a resolution to place the 'selected' poetry of John...
Yes. I must admit, Milwaukee left me rather cold as well. Doug *did* say it much better than me, though. Lew ... From: cantor03@......
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John Seboldt
rohrwerk@...
Sep 2, 2002 1:24 am
... Your opinion is your own, of course. But if you haven't been there for liturgy, it is impossible to make a final judgment. Like Abp Weakland said at the...
One of the problems with tabernacle placement in Roman Rite churches is that it has become such an ideological issue, symbolic of so many other issues....