A parishioner asked me, “When I was a child in this parish we always did Morning Prayer on Sundays.  Why don’t we still do that?  I kinda miss it.” Here's my response: I am glad you asked.  I have been looking for folks to help in our effort to get the entire parish to rediscover the habits of the "Threefold Rule." You are absolutely right about the importance of morning prayer.  But they all go together and we lose a great deal if we don’t keep them in balance - (1) we all n...

I noticed that  the language in the liturgy during Advent changed from what I am accustomed to and I’m worried that we won’t be using our old familiar language going forward.  Why did it change and what should I expect going forward in our language during the liturgy? During Advent we used language from Enriching Our Worship, Volume 1, a set of alternative rites authorized by General Convention and published in 1997.

As discussed in the last post of this series, our meeting for the Eucharist is where we begin to comprehend the gift of Christian identity. This gift is made possible, in part, by yet another gift from God: the gift of time. The Lord’s Supper is a meal we share with our Lord and each other that requires preparation and distribution.

The Twelve Days of Christmas, the season of Christmastide, end with the Feast of the Epiphany of the Lord which is always on January 6th. The Epiphany of the Lord, the original feast of the Christ's birth in the East, is actually older than Christmas, dating back to the second century (Christmas, the Christ-Mass, originated in the fourth century). Historically, Epiphany is one of the three major feasts of the Church (you may be surprised to learn that the other two are Easter and Pentecost;...