Entries categorized as liturgy, worship and church music
music for advent and christmas
This is a new Christmas Album, it's really rather nice, and would be one of those things you put on while you're wrapping up the Christmas presents (or even be the thing you are wrapping up!)
I have to 'fess up – I'm biased. Part of my job at Robinson College is overseeing the work More...
Training for Fresh expressions and pioneer ministry
It’s an amazing thing to me, and really exciting, to look back 18 years, and see how far pioneer and emerging groups have come in that time. In early 1990 I was one of half a dozen people who started a group in South London - not knowing really what we were doing except that More...
Tenebrae
A couple of years back we did a kind of "Alternative" Tenebrae service here at Robinson. Andy and Hannah Goodliff came over and joined us for that. This weekend they did a Tenebrae of their own, adapting our basic idea and adding some fresh ideas of their own. Looks great. Go here for their version
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Candlemas
One of the most-read features of this blog is the summaries I write on the liturgical year – why are the feasts there, what do they mean, and how can we engage with them in a way that brings our own individual and community devotion to life? Today is Candlemas, blog-readers, so Christmas is finally More...
Pentecost Worship: don’t despise your body
Come and join us for worship. I’m presenting the Daily Service tomorrow (Tuesday 29th May). 9.45 a.m. on Radio 4 LW.
We’re in the week of Pentecost, and our theme is on the experience of life with the Holy Spirit. Tomorrow’s service is about flesh and spirit. The reading (which I didn’t choose!) comes from More...
Daily Service
I’m presenting the Daily Service n Thursday. 9.45 a.m. on Radio 4 LW. To "listen again" on the website go here after the service is over and click the link on the page to my programme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/programmes/dailyservice/index.shtml
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Poems for Christmas: BC:AD
This was the moment when BeforeTurned into After, and the future’sUninvented timekeepers presented arms.
This was the moment when nothingHappened. Only dull peaceSprawled boringly over the earth.
This was the moment when even energetic RomansCould find nothing better to doThan counting heads in remote provinces.
And this was the momentWhen a few farm workers and threeMembers of an More...
blessings and dismissals
Tom writes some nice stuff about blessings, and a long but intriguing Blessing to use. One of his comments is that a Blessing is often a formal ending, but ought to imply something ongoing rather than closing down. That reminded me of one of the people who taught me the shape of the liturgy. Five More...
poems for Christmas: mary’s song
My book on Advent and Christmas (Order from Amazon, or from the publisher) includes a good bit of poetry; one of the poems that inspired me concerning Mary’s story is this lovely poem by Luci Shaw:
Blue homespun and the bend of my breastkeep warm this small hot naked starfallen to my arms. (Rest …you More...
Fauré Requiem
One of the things we do at Robinson, regularly but not often, is to take a classic piece of choral music that’s usually heard as a concert piece, and "perform" it as a liturgy. I think we may have been unique in constructing a liturgy around the wonderful Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms. We did Karl More...
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Maggi has kept a blog since September 2003, writing about theology and faith, the arts and literature, and a little about life and random nonsense...
This title focuses on the importance of understanding who God is - and who he is not. It explores the core Lenten idea of 'giving up', taking it beyond the traditional idea of simply abstaining from something.
This book compares and contrasts the different Gospel narratives of Christ's coming. It is designed specifically for use in 2007, highlighting links to the Church calendar. It is intended for those wanting daily Bible readings for Advent.
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