theophiliacs

Recently, I’ve been digging around for resources to help me live the Church Calendar more fully.  Here are few nice little gems from that search:

1. Our friend over at Haligweorc (besides getting awesomeness points for knowing Anglo-Saxon: Eala earendel     engla beorhtast / ofer middangeard      monnum sended) has created a truly wonderful resource for praying the Daily Office according to the rubrics of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer.  He calls it St. Bede’s Breviary, and its in a beta version, but it’s a really great resource.  You can spend hours playing with all the different options; there is some serious liturgical & devotional variety here.  You will especially enjoy this if you have an Anglo-Catholic bent to you. 

2. There seems to be some controversy over the fact that TEC recently voted to make the Revised Common Lectionary (RCL) its official Sunday lectionary (the daily office cycle of readings remains unchanged).  It seems the more conservative elements in the church prefer the lectionary of the 1979 BCP (if they didn’t they couldn’t be called conservative, could they?).  In any event, the Episcopal Office for Liturgy and Music has a brochure about the RCL which to my left-leaning mind makes some pretty good points, one of the best points to consider is that the RCL does not neglect the OT & NT stories that include women as heroines.  The readings might even suggest that God can use women, too (which of course is dangerous liberal ideology). 

The Office for Liturgy and Music has the Episcopal version of the RCL (which differs slightly from the Ecumenical version found here) in a PDF format, and its all done up in the same font and format as the BCP so you can razor out the old lectionary and glue the new one in.   :+]

3. Lastly, some advent prayers, and more; some advent recipes (watch out for the pop-ups on this one), more, and glogg (food and drink  figure into my prayer life, how about yours?); an advent poem.

Continue to look for our Saviour’s Coming, happy Advent.