(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 [...]
I don’t mean liturgy for repenting and being forgiven. There’s lots of that. I mean liturgy for practicing forgiveness.
Why does collective repentance figure so strongly in liturgical tradition, but collective forgiveness does not?
That is, the liturgy regularly calls us to reflect on, and repent of, our sins. But when are we called liturgically [...]
My friend Gabe, a seminarian over at General Theological Seminary, recently put up a great post over at his blog, Ultimate Concern, reflecting on his experience imposing ashes on Ash Wednesday at St. Paul’s Chapel, near the World Trade Center site in New York City. Here’s a taste:
As the hour passed, I became more and [...]
I expect most people who are actively interested and involved in liturgy are up to their necks (or higher!) in planning for the annual liturgy team endurance event commonly known as Holy Week, where most Episcopal churches pack 4 or more completely different liturgies into a single week.
So here you go, some nice fresh open [...]
Here’s an open thread to discuss any and all thing related to planning for Easter Vigil this year.
Tagged Easter, holyweek, openthreads, vigilI’m thinking this week about the one Holy Week liturgy I’m involved in planning this year, a Good Friday wake. The basic concept is a wake for Jesus–to provide a space and a time to sit with friends and grieve his death, and to remember the things he did in his life with us [...]
Tagged contemplative, funeral, good friday, holyweek, icon, mourning, vigil, wakeAn interesting article from the Boston Globe describes some recent research in cognitive science and neuroscience that is providing a new understanding of the relationship between our minds and our bodies. There is growing evidence that the way we move our bodies can affect the ways we solve problems, learn, access memories, and can [...]
Tagged cognition, embodiedness, Liturgical Action, motion, movement, thinking