Comments on: Must-Read Article on the New Lutheran Service Books http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/ Old English: Sanctuary (formed from the words "holy" and "work" thus what goes on in a sanctuary.) This is my sanctuary for writing on religion, academics, and the other things that ground my life. Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:02:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Chris http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4292 Chris Mon, 17 Sep 2007 19:14:11 +0000 http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4292 More thoughts are finally posted over at my blog . . . More thoughts are finally posted over at my blog . . .

]]> By: Nurse Rached http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4257 Nurse Rached Sat, 15 Sep 2007 22:59:50 +0000 http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4257 Wow, this is a concise and dismal review. I think Pastor Pfatteicher has much credibility. This news about the ELW is disappointing. My understanding is that many U.S. Lutherans eitheir celebrate Eucharist or Ante-Communion, although I have been to Advent and Lent Vespers/Evening Prayer in ELCA parishes. Are there any reviews on the rest of the ELW (especially Eucharist, Litany, and Reconciliation). I was gobsmacked watching the broadcast of the Tridentine (1962 Missal of Pope Blessed John XXIII) on EWTN. They did a good job with great music. The clergy did the fiddleback chasuble thing (as opposed to looking like the cast of Hair like the papal entourage in Austria). Alabama as a place of liturgical renewal! Who knew? I remember when I was a little girl and our Episcopal priests faced the altar (eastward). I think Episcopal folks could recover some sense of ''the beauty of holiness'' in worship. Wow, this is a concise and dismal review. I think Pastor Pfatteicher has much credibility. This news about the ELW is disappointing. My understanding is that many U.S. Lutherans eitheir celebrate Eucharist or Ante-Communion, although I have been to Advent and Lent Vespers/Evening Prayer in ELCA parishes. Are there any reviews on the rest of the ELW (especially Eucharist, Litany, and Reconciliation).

I was gobsmacked watching the broadcast of the Tridentine (1962 Missal of Pope Blessed John XXIII) on EWTN. They did a good job with great music. The clergy did the fiddleback chasuble thing (as opposed to looking like the cast of Hair like the papal entourage in Austria). Alabama as a place of liturgical renewal! Who knew? I remember when I was a little girl and our Episcopal priests faced the altar (eastward). I think Episcopal folks could recover some sense of ”the beauty of holiness” in worship.

]]> By: Scott http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4239 Scott Fri, 14 Sep 2007 23:24:12 +0000 http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4239 Awesome and scathing! Pastor Pfatteicher knows the subject intensely, and he puts well what I could only wince about when I attended a workshop on the ELW daily-office materials and thought, "The ELCA isn't committed to a daily-office liturgy." I couldn't articulate why I felt this way, other than seeing the meagre lectionary and feeling that the forms of the office were clouded with confusion. Here's hoping many will discover Pr. Pfatteicher's excellent Daily Prayer of the Church and its full provision for a true Daily Office in the Lutheran Tradition. Awesome and scathing! Pastor Pfatteicher knows the subject intensely, and he puts well what I could only wince about when I attended a workshop on the ELW daily-office materials and thought, “The ELCA isn’t committed to a daily-office liturgy.” I couldn’t articulate why I felt this way, other than seeing the meagre lectionary and feeling that the forms of the office were clouded with confusion. Here’s hoping many will discover Pr. Pfatteicher’s excellent Daily Prayer of the Church and its full provision for a true Daily Office in the Lutheran Tradition.

]]> By: Christopher http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4235 Christopher Fri, 14 Sep 2007 17:58:03 +0000 http://haligweorc.wordpress.com/2007/09/14/must-read-article-on-the-new-lutheran-service-books/#comment-4235 Sounds like a critique I've heard from another seminary professor. Remember only one seminary professor and one retired seminary professor of liturgy had much say in this work. There are criticisms here that I've made as well and that I think are on the horizon for us. Hence, my dispepsia. Sounds like a critique I’ve heard from another seminary professor. Remember only one seminary professor and one retired seminary professor of liturgy had much say in this work. There are criticisms here that I’ve made as well and that I think are on the horizon for us. Hence, my dispepsia.

]]>