Posted on 10/07/2015 6:49:50 PM PDT by NRx
The Church Divinity School of the Pacific offers a forum on “Imagining a new prayer book” as part of its Alumni Convocation Symposium, October 8, from 3-5 p.m., local time.
The Rev. Dr. Ruth Meyers, presenter, is the current dean of academic affairs, and a long-time teacher of liturgy and liturgics. She served on the Standing Commission for Liturgy and Music from 2008 – 2015, and as chair from 2009 – 2015.
The seminary website describes the event:
The 2015 General Convention called for a plan for revision of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer that will “utilize the riches of our Church’s liturgical, cultural, racial, generational, linguistic, gender and ethnic diversity in order to share common worship.” Join us to explore the possibilities and challenges for Prayer Book revision. What should change? What should be added? What should we keep? We’ll consider how a new prayer book can enable the Episcopal Church to gather and form faithful disciples in the 21st century, and how our common worship can express and shape our participation in the mission of God.
This presentation will be livestreamed: https://livestream.com/ChurchDivinitySchoolofthePacific/AlumniConvocationForum2015
What do you imagine, or dream of, in a new prayer book?
When someone says ‘let’s rewrite the mass or the prayer book or whatever’ it should be viewed as a giant neon sign flashing a one word message…
DANGER
DANGER
DANGER
On the other hand, we are talking about the Episcopalians here. I think we can safely that they have long since passed the point of no return.
Lemme take a wild guess and say that elements of the Koran are going to be praised and suggested for use.
It is said that the KJV of the Bible, Shakespeare, and the Book of Common Prayer were the foundational texts for formation of the uniquely bibliocentric approach the English speaking world developed. Considering the distressful 1979 Prayer Book I can only shudder at what is coming. In the future will historians look back and describe this new document as one of the milestones on the road to the deconstruction of the Anglo-American and possible the Western sense of identity?
They already had Muslims in the National Cathedral so it wouldn’t be surprising.
How about going back 100 or 200 years?
More apostasy, less God.
This is not simply a matter of "taste." God is not only beautiful, He is Beauty itself.
we may not be perfectly clear about the root meaning of "Worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness," but the thought is almost self-validating.
But the problem in TEC is deeper. They don't believe in God or the Water and the Blood. They're not clear that there is a God for IHS to be the Son of.
Unless God moves in a mighty way, they are lost.
They’ll have to take my 1928 BCP from my cold dead hands.
I’ve been an Episcopalian for 44 years. I loved my church for 34. I liked it for another 7 or 8. Now, I just don’t feel the same.
All of us aren’t liberal but the church is turning away from those who are.
“that will “utilize the riches of our Church’s liturgical, cultural, racial, generational, linguistic, gender and ethnic diversity in order to share common worship”
IOW, God is a “she” (or maybe a transvestite): Jesus is not the “Son”; and there is no “Father” in heaven.
Aside from that, though, the prayer book will remain the same... (sarc/off)
You have a new prayer book—its called the Koran.
Cranmer is the greatest stylist the English language ever produced. I’d say, Cranmer produced the English language. Go back to the 1928 BCP.
By the grace of God, it will be the one used at my funeral, whensoever He shall choose to call me from this world.
http://stjohntheforerunnerblog.blogspot.ca/2015/10/why-orthodox-christianity-should-not.html
Very Russian, but on point given the turmoil we are seeing among the heterodox.
I just keep reminding myself that "A liturgist is an affliction sent by God so that in times of no overt persecution, a Catholic need not be denied the privilege of suffering for the Faith." ;-)
That’s an excellent reflection. It may warrant its own thread.
‘Unless God moves in a mighty way, they are lost.’
This will be the epitaph of what was once called Western Civilization.
‘Unless God moves in a mighty way, they are lost.’
This will be the epitaph of what was once called Western Civilization.
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