Tag Archives: liturgy
Unprepared to be Prepared
Lent creeps up on me every year. Or well the last couple years when I’ve wanted to observe it. I know it’s coming but for some reason I always feel surprised by it. I’ve only been to one Ash Wednesday service in my life. My church is not a traditional church, at least not […]
Lighting Candles … when there is nothing else you can do …
Growing up Protestant, and especially Pentecostal, lighting candles when praying was not something we did. It was either something that was just foreign or unknown to you or it was not “sin” but an unnecessary part of faith that held to a tradition that … well … God might not disown you but he certainly […]
Liturgical Wanderings: A Hymn to Bring You Home
One benefit of attending a church with a highly liturgical tradition is that it is much easier to attend another church cut from the same cloth. Or at least that is the way it seemed to me attending an Episcopal church in Springfield, MO a few Sundays back. I couldn’t believe that I was going […]
Liturgical Wanderings: Missing Christ
I’m sitting in a recliner, ice pack on my back, blanket on my legs. Scott has taken ‘lil girl to church with our dear friends. I am thankful that I can stay back and listen to the radio (Roxanne by Police for background noise) for typing this hurts muscles in my upper arms that I […]
Liturgical Wanderings: A beginning
This past Sunday I found myself back in an odd place. Odd as in #4 of the dictionary’s meaning. Not regular, expected, or planned. I’m not exactly sure how I arrived here or why I find myself drawn back. Sometime last year I became interested in the liturgical calendar. I chalked it up to […]
The Twelve Blogs of Christmas: Happy New Year
Happy New Year! Somewhere in the world the calendar has turned over. 2011 is no more. 2012 has begun. Soon the rest of the world will slowly following, saying goodbye to all the memories, heartaches, joys, despair, sorrow, tears, laughter, achievements, dreams, desires, hopes and everything in between. Tomorrow (or today) we begin making our […]
