Posts tagged “Lutheran Worship

Baptism, Ordination, and Burial Liturgies: What Might Have Been

Posted on July 20th, 2011

A colleague recently shared with me a booklet with proposed liturgies for baptisms, ordinations, and funerals. It is pre-ILCW and supposedly is heavily influenced by Piepkorn’s work. It’s an interesting window into what might have been, and what our Agenda might have looked like had the LCMS taken a different path instead of ILCW, giving us LBW/LW, which legacy we are still saddled with in LSB, despite the many improvements of the sangria hymnal. The booklet is below; it appears to have been purchased from the CSL bookstore, but there’s no date or copyright information in it. Proposed Rites Baptism, Ordination, Burial

Update: Placement of the Marriage Rite

Posted on July 14th, 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: Before the liturgical reforms of Vatican II the marriage rite in the Roman Church preceded the beginning of the Nuptial Mass; however, the Solemn Nuptial Blessing was given immediately after the Our Father and before the celebrant continued with the Libera nos Domine and the Pax Domini. When the Nuptial Eucharist was restored in some our Synod’s parishes the Roman custom was followed. (This was also Anglican usage until…

The value of verse

Posted on February 25th, 2010

I was reading about Samuel Crossman, the author of the text to the popular Lenten hymn “My Song Is Love Unknown,” and I came across this gem about the value of poetry and hymnody as conveyors of the Faith: A verse may find him whom a sermon flies. -Lutheran Worship: Hymnal Companion, p99

Schmücke Dich, o liebe Seele (or, The enduring legacy of Lutheran Book of Worship)

Posted on December 17th, 2009

Rev. Charles McClean recently pointed out to me that the version of Soul, Adorn Yourself with Gladness which appears in Lutheran Service Book (#636) has some disconcerting anomalies. LSB’s stanzas 5 and 6 are simply two different translations of Johann Franck’s original stanza 7 – the first is from the paraphrase in Lutheran Book of Worship (#224, stanza 4), and the second is Catherine Winkworth’s translation. LSB has simply followed Lutheran Worship (#239, stanzas 4 and 5) in this regard. What this means is that something has been omitted, and in this case, some great treasures are being lost.* Try this exercise: open up LW #239. See all that nice room at the bottom of the page, beneath stanzas 5-6? Why is that left…

Pour in oil and cleansing wine

Posted on September 2nd, 2009

This Sunday is the Parable of the Good Samaritan (Trinity 13), and I was thinking about having Immanuel sing “Jesus, Grant That Balm and Healing” (LSB 421). I was looking at it out of LSB and couldn’t find the lines that made it in the past a must-sing for this Sunday. Here’s the line from Lutheran Worship (#421): “Where the wound is and the hurting, Pour in oil and cleansing wine.” I’ve always loved how that interprets the Good Samaritan parable Christologically. So I was initially disappointed to learn that Lutheran Service Book alters the text: “Every wound that pains or grieves me By Your wounds, Lord, is made whole.” However, that is a better translation of Johann Heermann’s original: “Gib für alles, was…

Numbers and my stupid brain

Posted on October 2nd, 2008

Am I the only one that can’t remember the numbers for the hymns in the new book? I had them all memorized in LW. I still knew a lot of the numbers in TLH. But here we are, almost two years in to using LSB, and I have no ablazing clue what the numbers are. I want to use “Jesus, Priceless Treasure” as our catechetical hymn of the week for school in a couple of weeks. 270 comes up instantly in the EBI (Esgetological Brain Index). But for LSB? Nothing! Not even sure which part of the book to go page around in. I guess there’s an index, but I liked it better when my brain was the index.