During last year’s field testing, I was able to put together some notes for each day in the first part of the liturgical year, and as we move toward the Second Sunday in Advent once again, I thought I would share a slightly expanded version of those thoughts from last year for those who weren’t…
In my previous post concerning the ranking of the Vigil of Christmas above the Fourth Sunday of Advent, I stated that this was according to the “old liturgical rubrics”—a very scholarly citation, indeed. These rubrics can be found in the following sources:Breviarium pro dioecesi ecclesiae Augustensis, 1497 (folio a1:verso)Directorium seu index divinorum officiorum secundum ritum…
Every year liturgically-minded pastors and parishioners bemoan the intrusion of Christmas upon the season of Advent. It’s not that we don’t think Christmas is important. Quite the opposite—it’s so important that the Church anticipates the Nativity of Our Lord with the month-long penitential season of Advent. But since our sinful world has no use for…
The Lutheran Missal project is excited to announce that, in addition to the missal, we are in the progress of producing a bilingual breviary that will feature side-by-side Latin and Anglo-Saxon text. The Anglo-Saxon text for Psalms 1-50 will be the prose translation of Alfred the Great, and the remainder will be that of the…
As you are all well aware, Holy Week is almost upon us, and so I’ve linked below all the various posts pertaining to Holy Week that have been written in the past years. In addition, a provisional rite for Palm Sunday has been made available to field testers, so check your email for those details…
Some of the most frequent comments and questions that we receive in our ongoing field testing are those regarding the beginning and ending points of various pericopes. It can be a little perplexing at first — an appointed Gospel may stop or start halfway through a paragraph in your Bible, or maybe the appointed Prophecies…
In the two weeks since our initial request for field testing volunteers, we’ve been happy to receive nearly 150 responses. The map below displays the states in which clergy have signed up to use the temporal lectionary in congregational worship and provide feedback on a regular basis. As you can see, we have congregations in…
Two Anglican publications have had a profound effect on the worship of nearly all English-speaking Lutherans: The King James Bible and the Book of Common Prayer (BCP). Nearly every reading, intervenient chant, and collect used in our liturgy today has come to us through one of these sources. The Encyclopaedia Britannica speaks truly when it…
One of the questions we hear most frequently is this: “When can we expect the missal to be published?” We understand—you, like each one of us, are anxious to have a completed book in your hands, so that you can set it on your missal stand, open it up, and simply pray the prayers and…
Fr. Stefan and I recently spoke at the St. Michael Liturgical Conference in Detroit. A recording of our presentation was published earlier today. You can find the video along with some additional information by following this link to the Gottesdienst blog.
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