Listen to our very own Father Stefan discuss Septuagesima (and the current status of The Lutheran Missal) on the latest episode of the Gottesdienst Podcast. This interview was a follow-up to his previous blog post titled, Septuagesimal Strife.
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The editors of The Lutheran Missal are pleased to announce the beginning of our third comprehensive round of field testing, coinciding with the release of the newly-translated Sunday collects. A new field testing page has been updated with the latest texts for the Readings, Psalmody, and Collects. Click here to sign up and receive the…
In February of 2018, while completing my final year at Concordia Theological Seminary, Fr. Heath Curtis asked me to edit the second edition of his Daily Divine Service Book (DDSB). The preface of the first edition laments that the Lutheran Church in North America has not yet produced a missal. In recognition of this profound…
Today we signed a contract with Thomas Nelson securing the right to use the NKJV in The Lutheran Missal. The NKJV retains more of the poetic and lyrical nature of the timeless KJV text than other modern translations. Since much of the missal text will be pointed for chanting, the NKJV is likely a better…
If we attempted to include every extant pre-Reformation missal in the pool of sources for the The Lutheran Missal, our grandchildren would likely be the ones to finish the task. In the Latin missals available to us, the combined index of sanctoral masses yields a staggering 100,000 entries—one for each mass. It was immediately clear…
The missals of the late 15th and early 16th centuries present several difficulties to the curious but otherwise typical 21st-century reader. First, they are written in Latin, a language with no native speakers. Second, printing technology was still in its infancy, making the early manuscripts with their Gothic script and lack of white space difficult…
If you are reading this in 2019, it’s likely that you just listened to my chat with Fr. Jason Braaten on the Gottesdienst Podcast. I was honored to be asked to talk about our work on The Lutheran Missal. You’re here because you’d like to know more about this project. Super! We hope you’ll read…