As (Western) Christians head into Pascha next week, our Jewish brothers and sisters will be celebrating Purim, and the Velveteen Rabbi shares a lovely reflection on Purim, Pesach, and the cycles of the Jewish Festival year. I really liked this bit at the end:
“We begin our festival year by relying on God to save [...]
A draft script (PDF download) is now available. This will continue to change over the next several days, but I wanted to share what I’m working with right now. Feedback is certainly appreciated, please add comments to the most recent post on the wake.
Tagged good friday, good friday wake, liturgy scriptsNow that Holy Week is here, I was going to have only very light blogging, as this is pretty much the busiest week of the year for this blog’s target audience. Then I remembered that I’ve been meaning for a while to take a close look at Egeria’s description of Holy Week Liturgies in [...]
Tagged early christianity, Egeria, holyweek, liturgies, palm sundayThe bulletins are probably all on their way to being printed/copied, your plans are likely pretty much set, so here’s a quick reminder of the Holy Week open threads–some interesting discussion on a few, but there’s plenty of room for lots more. What are you excited about? Anxious about?
Palm/Passion Sunday
Maundy Thursday
Good Friday
Easter Vigil
Blessings on [...]
Tagged openthreadsAs we enter into the final approach to Holy Week, a few thoughts on procession management. It’s a little tricky to give general tips for many of the kinds of processions we see in the coming weeks, because the spaces and groups that are involved can vary so widely. (In other words, your milage [...]
Tagged holyweek, Liturgical Movement, music, palm sunday, percussion, processionsHere’s a couple more images from Miranda. The one on the left goes fairly obviously with the Liturgy of the Palms. The one to the right was designed for a particular Good Friday service at a church she works with. The combination of bread, wine, and a crown of thorns makes it [...]
Tagged art, eucharist, good friday, hosanna, hosannah, images, maundy, palm sunday, palms(If you haven’t read it before, you might want to start by reading my previous post on a Good Friday Wake, to get an idea of what I’m talking about in this post.)
All liturgy is local. It happens in a particular place, a particular context, and with a particular set of people. It [...]
I have hopes that my wife, Miranda, will start co-blogging here sometime in the relatively near future. In the meantime, we’re going to start making digital versions of some of her liturgical artwork available here. Here’s what she says about the image above:
Resurrection, Miranda Hassett, 2006
This image is my interpretation of the traditional [...]
I’m not yet adjusted to the new Daylight Saving Time schedule, so i was a little surprised to find that it starts up again this weekend. I still feel like it should be in April. Easter is in March this year as well, confusing my sense of time and season even further.
Fortunately, the Liturgy [...]
