From the regular blog entries, a few along the way serve as commentaries upon the liturgy, or different liturgical principles and subjects. This page allows you to browse by subject for certain of those past posts.
Liturgy in general:
- What is liturgy?
- How to become a liturgy “expert”
- The Three-fold Rule of Worship
- Brief Introduction to the 2019 Prayer Book
- Why liturgy in the first place?
- Defining Churchmanship
- Importance of Common Prayer and Common Thought
Calendar Principles:
- The Evening Before a Sunday or Major Feast Day
- Wednesdays & Fridays
- Friday Fasts
- Eucharistic Thursday
Calendar Seasons:
- The Last Epiphany
- Christ the King Sunday
- Transitioning to Advent
- Old Advent 1
- Christmas Day and Sunday
- Epiphanytide (traditional)
- Epiphanytide (modern)
- Transitioning toward Lent
- Pre-Lent
- Ash Wednesday
- Lent
- Lætare: the 4th Sunday in Lent
- Passion: the 5th Sunday in Lent
- Holy Week
- The Triduum
- Holy Saturday
- Easter Week
- Eastertide (traditional)
- Eastertide (modern)
- Reading Acts in Eastertide
- Eastertide: 40 or 50 days
- Ascension Day
- Ascensiontide
- Ascensiontide: the disciples were not scared
- The Pentecost Octave or Whitsundays
- Trinity Sunday
- Corpus Christi
- The “Proper” Sundays after Trinity
Calendar Holy Days:
- St. Thomas
- Christmas Day Options
- St. Stephen
- St. John
- The Holy Innocents
- The Circumcision & Holy Name of Christ
- The 2nd Sunday after Christmas
- The Epiphany
- The Presentation or Purification
- St. Matthias
- St. Joseph
- The Annunciation
- Sts. Simon & James
- The Visitation
- Nativity of St. John the Baptist
- August Holy Days
- St. Mary the Virgin
- September Holy Days
- Holy Cross Day
- Ember Days
- Rogation Days
Calendar Commemorations:
- St. Cornelius the Centurion
- Sts. Cyril & Methodios
- Martyrs of Sudan
- 6 December: St. Nicholas
- 13 December: St. Lucia
- 16 December: O Sapientia
- Your own commemorations
Canticles & Psalms:
- The Three Gospel Canticles
- Nunc Dimittis: Evening & Compline
- Canticle: Song of the Three Young Men
- The Renewed Coverdale Psalter
- Canticle 1: Magna et mirabilia
- Canticle 2: Surge illuminare
- Canticles for Lent
- Canticle 4: Quærite Dominum
- Canticles for Easter
- Extra Canticle: for the martyred
- Psalms for February: 1611 style
- Psalms in the Triduum
- Psalms for Christmas Day and after
- Psalm 89
- Psalms 105 & 106
- Psalm 110
- Psalm 118
- Psalm 119 in pieces
- Psalm 137
Collects & Other Prayers:
- Advent 1
- Advent 2 “the Scripture Collect””
- The Conversion of St. Paul
- Epiphany 3 & World Mission Sunday
- Epiphany 4 with a hymn
- Epiphany 5
- Lent 1
- Easter 3
- Proper 7
- Proper 8
- Proper 12
- Proper 13
- Proper 21
- Proper 28
- St. Bartholomew
- Rogation Days
- The Occasional Prayers
- Occasional Prayers 27-39: for the nation
- Occasional Prayer 92: for satisfaction in Christ
Daily Office:
- Opening Sentences of Scripture
- The Pascha Nostrum
- Lectionary: Gospels & Epistles
- The Suffrages
- The Collect for Grace (Morning Prayer)
- The Collects for Peace
- Collect for Faith (Friday Evening)
- Additional Prayers
- The Great Litany
Holy Communion:
- The Trinitytide Acclamation
- The Advent Acclamation
- The Collect for Purity
- The Penitential Rite (Decalogue or Summary of the Law)
- The Gloria in Excelsis
- The Number of Collects and Lessons
- The Nicene Creed (translation)
- The Order of the Sermon & Creed
- The Prayers of the People
- The Exhortation
- The Confession
- The Comfortable Words
- The Offertory Sentences
- The Epiclesis
Other Rites:
- Holy Baptism: The Flood Prayer
- Reconciliation of a Penitent
- Ordinal: the Veni Sancte Spiritus
- Ordinal: Consecration of a Bishop
- Blessing Holy Water
Lessons of Scripture:
- Numbers
- Kings & Chronicles
- Esther
- Proverbs
- Introducing Isaiah
- The Passions of Jeremiah & Jesus
- Lamentations
- Lamentations (in Holy Week)
- Daniel
- Ecclesiasticus (Sirach)
- Baruch
- 1 Esdras
- Colossians
- 1 & 2 Thessalonians
- 1 Peter (Eastertide)
- 2 Peter & Jude
- 1 John (Eastertide)
- Revelation
Music:
- Sing the Hymnal in a Year
- Extra Christmas Carols
- Last Christmas Hymn: “From East to West”
- Pairing a Collect & Hymn: Epiphany 4, “O worship the King”
- Pre-Lent Hymn: “Come, labor on”
- “The glory of these forty days”
- “At the Lamb’s high feast we sing”
- Rogation Hymn: “O Jesus crowned with all renown”
- Ascension Hymn: “See the conqueror”
- Pairing a Collect & Hymn: Proper 9
- “Before the throne of God above”
- I don’t like this hymn: “Blessed Quietness”
- Morning Hymns
- National & Patriotic Hymns
- Matrimony Hymn: “O Father, all creating”
- Ember Day Hymn: Veni Sancte Spiritus
- How to Sing Simplified Anglican Chant
- Different ways to chant Psalm 121
Practical & Procedural Advice:
- Vestments: for glory and for beauty
- George Herbert’s Advice in liturgical observance
- Don’t neglect the [Great] Litany
- The Service of Antecommunion
- Reading Pace
- Advent 1 Checklist
- Ash Wednesday without the ashes
- The Ash Wednesday Collect throughout Lent
- Commemorating Saints during Lent
- Fasting for Lent: a glory
- Fasting Tips
- Withholding the Peace in Holy Week
- No Friday Fasts in Eastertide
- Observing Pentecost
- Remembering the Saints in the Liturgy
- Remembering the Faithful Departed in the Liturgy
- Using the + in writing
Sample Services:
