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Recommendation if you are feeling overwhelmed: try chanting along to Evening Prayer at thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com while lying on the floor, preferably on your back, and let the sound resonate through you into the floorboards. If you don't know all the texts, hum along. ⚓

I’m so sorry Kayleigh. Holding you both in prayer.

On the poetry side, anything from Malcolm Guite. His “Sounding the Seasons” is particularly lovely.

Julia Gatta, “Life in Christ”. Thomas Oden’s “Pastoral Theology” is thicker, but also a fantastic read.

"If you cannot find Christ in the beggar at the church door, you will not find him in the Chalice" St John Chrysostom

First Christmas Eve mass as a priest. Nights like this I’m baffled that I get to do this. 🕯️

This Song Is Best | Saint Mark's Church A few weeks ago a friend of mine who is a church organist posted a photo on Facebook of her preparations for Christmas. Not surprisingly, it was a picture of a musical score, an arrangement of a hymn,...

Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...

The darkness 👏 did 👏 not 👏 overcome 👏 it. Glad to know I’m not alone in crying while writing my own Christmas sermon.

For the curious:
2. ___
Nails, spear shall pierce Him through
The cross be borne for me, for you
Hail, hail the Word made flesh
The Babe, the Son of Mary

3. ___
Raise, raise a song on high
The virgin sings her lullaby
Joy, joy for Christ is born
The Babe, the Son of Mary

Reminder that we've been robbed of the best verses of "What Child is this." The original text doesn't have "this this is Christ the king..." as a refrain. Past me went to the trouble of adding the rest of verses 1 and 2 back into my hymnal. Always fun to find these surprises. 🕯️

My liturgy prof said it shouldn’t, and I understand the argument. But we also believe that the cross is central to the whole Gospel, so its presence along with the Gospel procession is a reminder that we read the whole thing through the lens of the cross. So imo both practices are valid.

What do you see as the distinction between these two ideas?

Well-intentioned progressive Christians are especially susceptible to this. We aren’t called to build the kingdom or bring it to earth; the kingdom is coming whether we’re ready for it or not. Our job is to make disciples and live in such a way that we point to the coming of that kingdom. 🕯️

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Inside cover of forward movement’s Booklet of Common Prayer.

Table of contents of the Booklet of Common Prayer.

@forwardmovement.org y’all did good work on this one 🕯️

Got to introduce a new family to folks at coffee hour, and someone even roped them into helping to clean up from the advent wreath workshop, so odds are they’ll be on the vestry next year!

(He said jokingly)

Happy new year! 🕯️

this is the best collect in the entire book — it goes so hard

God is always more ready to hear than we are to pray!!!

If your church isn’t focused on the redemptive love of Jesus Christ, you’ve lost the plot. This applies both to whacky conservatives and whacky liberals. Seriously: the Gospel is grace and mercy. All the time. ⚓️

Biggest surprise so far about parish ministry (as a curate) is just how much of my job boils down to sending emails back and forth trying to get people into the same room as one another.

Seconding what’s been said about just soaking it up. Don’t stress about doing everything “right”. Follow along with what you see the folks around you doing. Try not to get too discouraged if it feels uncomfortable; everyone was new at one point, and it takes time for your bones to learn the liturgy

New challenge for the Narthex. Please join me, and let all of us know if you are doing it!

Here is the challenge: every time you start feeling a sense of doom about the state of the church, and I mean EVERY time, stop and pray for the church and for discernment on how to help build the church up. ⚓️

Me every time: “from the womb of WHAT? What womb??? There’s no womb for them to burst out of!?!”

Canticles - YouTube

Really like this guy’s reccordings. Not all the 1979 canticles, but most of them. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

St. Dunstan's Plainsong Psalter - YouTube Nine hundred years ago, the Cathedral of Salisbury, England developed a unique form of chant and liturgy known as the “Use of Salisbury,” or “Sarum Use.” Cur...

youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Recently discovered a whole playlist of psalms from St. Dunstan’s Plainsong Psalter over on YouTube and it’s been delightful for this very purpose

a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it ALT: a white duck with an orange beak is standing next to a fence with the words * inhales * on it

Nothing makes me go angry goose more than when an ACNA member talks about how welcoming and "big tent" Anglicanism is.

Welcoming for whom?

WELCOMING FOR WHOOOOOOOMMMMMMMM‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽‽

It is utterly wild to me that people — especially my age and older — are asking LLM AIs to write or reply to emails. Beloved babes of God we’ve been doing this for 25 years

You shouldn’t have to wait for it, but I assure you that Pastoral Theology next semester will be a vast improvement.

Most of the readings we were either so common sensical as to be almost insulting, or based in mid 19th century pseudoscience.