Holy Desire and Good Counsel By John Bauerschmidt Cranmer’s 1549 prayer book, and subsequent editions, continued the use of a collect first found in the eighth-century Gelasian sacramentary, one identified by the 1559 version as a “coll... Read More...
Remembering the Future By John Bauerschmidt One of the great themes of Advent is the Lord’s coming in glory at the end of time: the “Second Coming.” In modern lectionaries, the four-Sunday Advent season immediately before Christma... Read More...
A High Regard for Scripture By Bryan Owen One of the things that struck me when I first started worshiping in the Episcopal Church was the prominent place of Scripture in the liturgy. In addition to three Scripture readings (plus a psalm) in a typical Sunday service, I noticed that v... Read More...
A Pointer to Discipleship By Charlie Clauss The collects are a treasure of Anglican worship. Many people will know the refrain “Read, learn, mark, and inwardly digest” from the collect that always occurs on the second-to-last Sunday ... Read More...
Note on the Collect for Candlemas Metaphysics can indeed be confusing in this anti-metaphysical age, but it's hard to see how it is "helpful" to avoid it altogether.
