Over the last decade people around the world have been exposed to the beauties of Anglican liturgy and music through a series of high profile weddings and funerals: The royal weddings of William and Kate at Westminster Abbey (2011), Harry and Meghan at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor Castle (2018), Read more…
The Great Vigil of Easter is unlike any service of the liturgical year. It is my favorite liturgy and that of many others. I’ve run across many stories (including those told in Evangelicals on the Canterbury Trail) of people who have been drawn into Anglicanism (or other liturgical traditions) because they Read more…
For nearly 2,000 years Christians have prayed and sung in procession through villages, on pilgrimages, and in the church as both a practical means of moving from one place to another and as liturgical acts of devotion. The Anglican Litany was once the most popular devotion for Anglican Christians. At Read more…
The following is a list of various ancient and modern customs that can aid in setting Lent apart from the rest of the year.
A list of the essential and other helpful books and online resources for use in planning the liturgy and physical use during the liturgy.
The O Antiphons help us remember that Christ was the fulfillment of hundreds of years of prophecy and God’s promise to his people to send a Messiah. Likewise, in Advent, we remember these promises of Christ’s first coming and eagerly await His second
Let’s face it, many of us grew up with Maundy Thursday as part of our Church life, but never knew what it really meant. I used to say “Monday Thursday” as a kid. Then I assumed that “maundy” meant “mourning” or something because I specifically associated this day with Christ’s arrest, Read more…
From the earliest days of Christianity, believers began their ceremonial gatherings with processions. Like many traditions in Church, they were adopted from Roman civic and military custom and “sanctified” to the glory of God and the use in Church worship. For example, modern Church banner bearers harken back to the Read more…
The collect for the Third Sunday in Lent asks the Lord to quickly come and protect, both physically and spiritually, from the works of Satan. In Lent we remember Christ’s wonderings in the desert and His temptation to sin. Christ, God the Son, has total and perfect power over the Devil, Read more…
This week’s collect stems from Gallicanum (from Gaul), Gelasian (relating to Pope Gelasius), and Gregorian (10th century, but misattributed to Pope Gregory the Great) liturgical books as prayers for those who were heretics and schismatics to be brought to repentance and come back into the historic faith of the church. It Read more…