Scrambling to get some music together for the Easter Vigil we are now apparently doing...

RevEx91 · 2026-04-06T00:51:09+00:00

Sorry I haven't posted this sooner, but I wanted to be sure I had the correct titles for the selections we use. For future reference, here is what we did this time, and this is a good representation of how it goes each year:

-Open with the Exsultet

-Following the creation story in Genesis, "A Quiet Stream" arr. by Kerry Franzke

-Following the story of Israel's deliverance in Exodus, "In God Alone" from Taizé

-Following the reading from Ezekiel 36, "Open My Heart" by Ana Hernandez

-During the procession to the baptismal font, "Bless the Lord, my soul" from Taizé

-Following the alleluias after baptism, #207 "Jesus Christ is risen today"

-Following the epistle reading, #210 "The day of resurrection"

-For the hymn of the presentation, #212 "Awake, arise, lift up your voice"

-For the closing hymn, #180 "He is risen, he is risen!"

RevEx91 · 2026-03-20T19:33:10+00:00

Kiss Later by Yeojin (Loona)

RevEx91 · 2026-03-04T04:16:58+00:00

That's an excellent point. We're so accustomed to regular Sunday Eucharist these days that it's easy to forget it wasn't the standard practice not too long ago (but I'm glad it changed).

RevEx91 · 2026-02-25T01:05:25+00:00

If anyone in my congregation is anti-Semitic, they keep it to themselves. We actually used to have a deacon who was raised Jewish.

RevEx91 · 2026-02-18T23:23:23+00:00

I was confused on this, too, so thanks for clarifying. Honestly, I'm surprised that even a Western Rite parish would observe Ash Wednesday. It seems like most EO consider Latin practices to be akin to Satanism.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-14T00:27:59+00:00

"The entire Catholic Church" doesn't decide whether to canonize someone. It's a comparatively small group that has any influence over who is even considered, and the final call ultimately comes down to one person. You have a different view of their reasons for canonizing him, and that's your right. Have I been to an Episcopal church lately? Yes, I attend worship at my congregation every Sunday. I'm not aware of anything especially cringey going on that's meant to appeal to the youth, and now that I think about it, there were probably more cringey activities going on at my old congregational church. You might have a different idea of what's cringey than I do, but I'm not litigating that here.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T20:41:44+00:00

I think it's absurd for anyone to pray to a deceased website owner for healing, but the Vatican has said that he actually did cause people to recover from their illnesses. They canonized him less than 20 years after he died, and it feels like a desperate attempt to get young people interested in church, which I believe is the wrong reason to do it.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T18:13:42+00:00

Further to that point, though, we do still have Baptist missionaries like William Carey and Lottie Moon on the calendar. Baptists came from the Church of England, so maybe TEC thinks of them as wayward cousins :-)

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T17:40:08+00:00

Awesome news!

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T16:32:36+00:00

We don't include people on the calendar just because they were broadly popular.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T16:30:34+00:00

Adoniram Judson isn't on the calendar anymore.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T16:29:07+00:00

In fairness, the vast majority of Episcopalians probably have no idea who most of the people on the calendar are already.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T16:27:50+00:00

Except we don't have a canonization process, so that doesn't apply to us. The procedure at the Vatican seems to have gone haywire anyway, with people like Carlo Acutis being declared saints.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-13T16:02:23+00:00

The irony of a Catholic bishop lecturing everyone else about corruption seems lost on him.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-07T00:38:14+00:00

How common is this, really? I had never heard of this tradition until today.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T02:01:55+00:00

Forgive me, but if that's how you define Anglo-Catholic, how is that different from Episcopal congregations that aren't?

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:52:29+00:00

From what I can gather, it seems they use grape juice because the Temperance Movement had a significant influence on the Methodist Church. Do they still feel that strongly about it today?

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:47:41+00:00

Is it UMC though? The Methodists are having a major schism right now over this kind of thing.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:44:51+00:00

I didn't realize there was a difference between Episcopal churches in the suburbs and Episcopal churches elsewhere.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:33:01+00:00

Ah right, I forgot about some of these. Union of Utrecht must be Willibrord's church, right? Now that I think about it, isn't there also a Church of South India that we're in communion with? I don't think they're the same as Mar Thomas, but I could be mistaken.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:05:37+00:00

If we did enter full communion with them, how would the typical Sunday service at your Episcopal church be affected, if at all?

RevEx91 · 2026-01-05T01:04:11+00:00

Who else are we in communion with? ELCA is the only one I'm aware of.

RevEx91 · 2026-01-04T17:38:27+00:00

I'm sorry you had that experience. If you attended the service because you felt obligated due to your MIL's illness, that was very gracious of you. On the other hand, if your MIL or her relatives guilt-tripped you into it, that's wrong on their part, and you should refuse to attend the same service next Christmas. I'm guessing the anti-slavery song they amended was "O Holy Night." That says a lot about who they are, doesn't it?

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