Singing With All the Saints
During the Divine Service you probably hear your pastor say or chant these words: “Therefore with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven we laud and magnify Your glorious name, evermore praising you and saying . . . “ Have the import of those words sunk in? What follows, the Sanctus, is not [...]
Elements of Liturgical Style
Most of us have probably heard of The Elements of Style by Strunk and White — those terse commands like “Omit needless words.” Recently I came across Elements of Rite: A Handbook of Liturgical Style by Aidan Kavanagh that had the same directness toward rite and liturgical style as Strunk and White had to [...]
Children & Worship
Cantor Phil Magness was on Tuesday’s “Issues, Etc” and had a worthwhile discussion on children and worship. Basic theme: Give children something in worship they can grow into rather than grow out of. It’s a good listen.
Heaven on Earth
After Divine Service today, a friend stopped me in the narthex and mentioned that the service was like “heaven on earth”. And so it was—literally. Not because of some “feeling”, but because of what Christ was actually doing. Where Christ is, there is heaven. Christ coming to us and giving us forgiveness of sins, life, and [...]
The Liturgical Fruit Basket
“The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of with the least surprises . . . Today it is a liturgical fruit basket upset.” — David Scaer from the Advantage of Liturgical Ruts (Logia 6:2 pg 53-54)
At one time a typical American Lutheran church would be using the Lutheran Hymnal or Service [...]
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