Votive mass 29 from the Anglican Missal. The liturgical color is violet. Introit Be mindful of thy covenant, O Lord, and say to the destroying angel: Stay now thy hand, and let not the land be made desolate, and destroy not every living thing. (Alleluia, alleluia) Ps 80. Hear, O thou Shepherd of Israel: thou…
Category: Liturgy
My MA thesis on footwashing
These days, we associate footwashing with Maundy Thursday or Holy Thursday services. It turns out to be a fairly new practice, at least at the parish level. In 2010 I graduated from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA, with a MA in Liturgical Studies. My thesis was entitled “Footwashing in the Western Christian Liturgy…
Novena in Preparation for Christmas
A Novena is a form of Christian prayer that takes place over, traditionally, 9 days. You are invited to pray this Novena in Preparation for Christmas beginning on December 16th. There is an opening prayer, followed by a one of the O Antiphons for each of the days, concluded by the Our Father, the Hail…
Holy Hour
The older editions of the St Augustine’s Prayer Book contain several Holy Hours, which are personal devotions for use during an hour spent in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament. A few years ago, I typed one of them up for use in our chapel on Maundy Thursday night at the Altar of Repose, for those…
Hymns for Holy Saturday
In the prayer book there is an often neglected mid-day office for Holy Saturday, which is found on page 283 of the Book of Common Prayer. At Trinity, we usually have a small group of 8-12 gather in the chapel for this liturgy. After the Gospel, we read these Hymns for Holy Saturday, which come…