Book of Common Prayer

Update: Placement of the Marriage Rite

July 14, 2010

A correspondent (a very capable liturgical scholar) sent me an email pertaining to my earlier post on the placement of the marriage rite in the daily office. He is in favor of keeping the marriage rite in the place where the LW Agenda has it (after the sermon). However, he gives these useful historical details: [...]

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Reminiscere (Lent 2) – Mt. 15.21-28

March 8, 2009

  Our prayers are too nice. In fact, they are so polite, they are rude. What else do you call it when our prayer before meals is rattled off like an auctioneer, the Lord’s Prayer said with the enthusiasm of a funeral director reading the phone book, and our private prayers too often employed like [...]

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