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On children in church

February 28, 2015

To exclude children from the liturgy is to shortchange them and us

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In Liturgy

The Sacrifice of Praise

January 30, 2015

The full text and real import of Pierpoint’s ‘For the beauty of the earth’

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In Liturgy Tags Eucharist, Hymns

The Flight into Egypt

January 5, 2015

Christ’s coming into the world was and always is a threat to worldly power

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In Liturgy Tags Kalendar

The Lord is glorious in his saints

October 28, 2014

Baptism on All Saints’ Day reminds us that it is baptism into the Communion of Saints

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In Liturgy Tags Saints, Departed, Kalendar

The Exaltation of the Holy Cross

September 14, 2014

Connecting Holy Cross Day, the Transfiguration, and the Feast of Tabernacles

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In Liturgy Tags Advent, Agricultural festivals, Holy Week, Hymns, Kalendar, Kenosis

Glorious things of thee are spoken

August 25, 2014

Connecting Newton’s fine hymn to the Transfiguration, Holy Cross Day, and Sukkoth

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Advent, Agricultural festivals, Heaven, Eucharist, Hymns, Kenosis, Transfiguration

The Transfiguration

August 6, 2014

Connecting this feast to its Jewish forebear

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In Liturgy Tags Agricultural festivals, Theosis, Kalendar, Transfiguration

Lammas Day

August 1, 2014

Harvest, food, and the Bread of Life

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In Liturgy Tags Agricultural festivals, Eucharist, Kalendar, Ceremonies

Discerning the Body

June 19, 2014

Focusing on Christ’s Presence in the Sacrament – and finding it elsewhere

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In Liturgy Tags Eucharist, Church, Hymns

The wounded side of Christ

May 3, 2014

Exploring the rich symbolism of this image

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In Liturgy Tags Easter, Eucharist, Iconography, Saints, Holy Week

The Presence of Christ

April 28, 2014

The Second Sunday of Easter

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In Liturgy Tags Easter, Eucharist, Sacraments

Ye choirs of new Jerusalem

April 22, 2014

Understanding the symbolism in this Easter Office hymn

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Departed, Easter, Hymns, Heaven

Lord, stay with us

April 20, 2014

Finding the Emmaus account in the Hymnal

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In Liturgy Tags Easter, Eucharist, Hymns

The Sunday of the Passion

April 13, 2014

Children at the Triumphal Entry, and the Harrowing of Hell

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In Liturgy Tags Advent, Departed, Holy Week, Hymns, Incarnation, Kenosis

Common, community, communion

April 11, 2014

Common Prayer and the Communion of Saints

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In Liturgy, Church Tags Departed, Anglicanism, Church

The Annunciation

March 25, 2014

The Hymnal version of ‘Quem terra, pontus, sidera’ misses out on rich language

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns, Incarnation, Mary, Translation

Adam lay i-bounden

March 9, 2014

Understanding a popular carol about the Fall and redemption

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Ascesis, Choral literature, Departed, Heaven, Hymns, Holy Week, Incarnation, Theosis, Kenosis, Lent, Mary, Transfiguration

The blessed sonne of God onely

January 4, 2014

Luther, Coverdale, and Vaughan Williams meet in this favorite hymn-anthem

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Anglicanism, Choral literature, Daily Office, Hymns, Incarnation, Translation, Printing & Publishing

This little Babe

December 30, 2013

The powerful full text of this familiar poem by an English Roman Catholic martyr

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In Liturgy, Music Tags Choral literature, Hymns, Kenosis, Incarnation, Martyrs, Poems

Corde natus ex parentis

December 25, 2013

Connecting the cosmic Christ and the human Jesus in a fifth-century hymn

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In Liturgy Tags Hymns, Incarnation, Poems
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