Tag: liturgy

Lent?

Post author By Eric Philips
Post date March 7, 2023
Categories In Church Calendar, Liturgy & Worship
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What is Lent? Lent is a 40 day season that begins on Ash Wednesday and concludes at Easter. The Book of Common Prayer starts the Ash Wednesday liturgy (hence begins Lent) with these helpful words: “The first Christians observed with great devotion the days of our Lord’s passion and resurrection, and it became the custom […]

Why Liturgy

Post author By admin
Post date February 16, 2023
Categories In Liturgy & Worship
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All Anglican worship services are ‘liturgical’ (meaning that our services are structured, fairly traditional, with set forms, and are filled with ‘calls and responses’). Why do we go through all of this? Why do we use Liturgy in worship and not simply ‘wing it’? Until rather recently in Church history, the majority of Christians (including […]