November 2000 sees the demise of the Alternative Service Book (ASB) in the Church of England.

As a longtime member of AP and reader of OPEN, I remember critical reviews of worship at General Conventions, although a quick search did not uncover such reviews for 1997 or 1994.

Two major pieces of liturgical legislation were passed at General Convention. The first was a response to the 1997 General Convention’s request that the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) develop a plan for the enrichment, renewal, and revision of the common worship of the Church.

Our church is currently engaged in a rapid movement toward open eucharist, meaning open access to communion regardless of one’s baptismal status.

Dick Grein said it best: “I always used to look forward to Peter’s company at Council meetings.

It was a grief-stricken New Year! Our parish of 150 buried five members in the few weeks surrounding Christmas, four of them young, three dead of AIDS, and we were reeling.

Grace Episcopal Church in Holland, Michigan, has long enjoyed a rich appreciation and understanding of liturgical expression.

Greater attention to cultural expression Perhaps the most significant hymnological change in the past generation has been the willingness to employ for the song of the church secular literary styles and modern techniques of music composition and music production.

As a church planter, I am given frequent opportunities to reflect on the relationship between the Church, its liturgy, and the changing culture in which I live.

Last summer, while working on the staff of a leadership conference for young adults, I decided to post signs around the camp welcoming people to join me in the chapel for compline every night.

The Changing Context of Music and Liturgy” was the theme for the annual conference of the Association of Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commissions November 15-19, 1999, hosted by the Diocese of Fond du Lac in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Glorify your Maker, you works of our God, Wonder at God who endures for ever. You sun and moon and clouds and winds, Constellations, curtains of shimmering light, Winter and summer, autumn and spring Proclaim to our God your thanks and praise.

1. Some Anglican principles for burial practices In my ministry as a parish priest, there is no liturgy that more frequently collides with cultural and social expectations than The Burial of the Dead.

The General Synod of the Church of England has now authorized eight eucharistic prayers to be published in Common Worship later this year.

It is impossible to imagine a discussion of the Episcopal Church that did not include some important role for The Book of Common Prayer.

The “we” of the title refers, of course, to the Episcopal Church. When our 73rd General Convention meets in Denver this July it will have two resolutions of major ecumenical significance to consider.

Before Confederation and up through the first half of the twentieth century, the policy of the government of Canada towards the First Nations was assimilation.

I would like to begin by telling you about my personal history. I was raised in the small northwestern Ontario community of Bearskin Lake.

David Ashdown was nineteen years old, an undergraduate student at the University of Saskatchewan, when the study Beyond Traplines was published in 1969.

Our hope as church, society and Aboriginal peoples rests in establishing new relationships of trust and promise and working together for a better future.

There are moments in history which are significant turning points. Often, their arrival appears sudden and unforeseen, although in hindsight we might wonder why we hadn’t anticipated them.

I greet you in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Greetings first of all to you who have come from every part of this wonderful land–chosen by your diocese as delegates to this Synod.

The Episcopal Church has called upon Congress and the Bush administration to seek out compromise in the current debate over faithbased initiatives.

Bishop Gordon Beardy of Keewatin formally forgave the church for its past dealings with indigenous peoples at a native healing ceremony during the recent meeting of the General Synod of the Anglican Church of Canada.

The Santa Fé Statement on mission is very significant in its own right. Placed alongside recent events at the Anglican Church of Canada’s General Synod meeting, it is part of a fundamental shift in the church’s self-understanding and, further, its mission.

The Denver General Convention called on the Episcopal Church to commit itself to double in size by 2020.

Last year’s conference of the Association of Diocesan Liturgy and Music Commissions (ADLMC), in Bloomington, Minnesota, close to the Minneapolis/St.

Conformity or intentionality In the New Testament, baptism was something that happened for converts, for example, people who heard Peter on the day of Pentecost, the Ethiopian befriended by Philip, the household of Cornelius visited by Peter.

Christendom is dead–I mean, the way of things when the western world identified itself with the Christian religion, and Christian churches claimed whole societies and peoples for their own.

If agitation for and against liturgies for same-gender couples brings no other benefit, it will have served to stimulate serious theological reinvestigation of liturgical rites such as matrimony–what they are, what they mean, and what they do.

The night I got pregnant someone was tortured and murdered nearby. I was a reporter living in El Salvador, and the road past my house ended in an overgrown ravine.

Since the 1979 Book of Common Prayer’s emphasis on baptism as full inclusion in the church, confirmation has become a sacramental rite without any significant justification.

Breaking barriers frees the transforming power of our sacraments. I discovered this to my shame one Saturday in 1981.

A great debate raged among participants in the Associated Parishes Council e-list (as distinct from the members e-list) just prior to our annual meeting this spring at the Sorrento Centre in British Columbia.

The dynamic between liturgy and mission creates a trajectory. As such, it is meant to form our worship into ever widening communion, to equip and impel us “to restore all people to unity with God and each other .

Actually, “memory” is a poor and inadequate word with which to speak of Bill Wendt. Nothing about him, for those who were privileged to know him, could ever be forgotten.

On Sundays we have only about five people in church,” the young priest told us. “But at funerals we have as many as seven hundred.

The Council of Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission met in western Canada this spring to witness first hand the crisis in the Anglican Church of Canada.

Behold, I am doing a new thing…before it springs up, I tell you of it. It was a joy to see in the Blue Book for General Convention proposed liturgies for church planting offered in side-by-side English and Spanish versions.

A year ago the Standing Commission on Ministry Development took a vote to decide among direct ordination, sequential ordination, or local option, as part of the package of new Title III canons on ministry.

A Danny Shanahan cartoon, published in the June 27, 1994, issue of the New Yorker, depicts a disheveled fi gure walking down a busy, urban street.

The church is darkened and the congregation hushed, as if holding a collective breath. A lone voice begins to sing.

Catholic tradition has developed a leadership structure consisting of three orders, deacon, priest, and bishop, each serving the baptized and enabling their ministry in the world.

Believing Urbanization can be of God Aristotle is quoted as saying: “Men came together in cities to live, but remained there to live the good life”   1.

Despite twenty years of offi cially sanctioned joint eucharistic gatherings by Lutherans and Episcopalians, little of a practical nature has been written to aid those charged with liturgical planning to understand the historical background and theological implications of their work, in addition to the practical mechanics involved.

It is with great excitement that we launch Open as an online journal. This initiative marks both the continuation of a long tradition and the beginning of a new direction for our periodical.

This document was generated by a working group at the 2006 APLM Council meeting at DaySpring Conference Center in Ellenton, Florida for the purposes of reflection and discussion in the wider church.

In the study of “liturgy” we are often led deeply into the details of effective ritual for the celebration of Christian sacraments.

“Holy Baptism is full initiation by water and the Holy Spirit into Christ’s Body the Church.

What can be learned about the ministry of ‘making disciples’ from the way Jesus did it?

The following sermon was preached on the Commemoration of Lancelot Andrewes at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, September 26, 2001.

Frequently I am startled athowlittle context and history we offer ourselves for the continuing work of renewing the church, re-examining its mission and liturgy, responding to new opportunities, and perhaps most of all, facing conflict.

More than 70 Anglican liturgists representing 30 provinces of the Anglican Communion gathered in Berkeley, California, as the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation in August 2001.

The Standing Commission on Ecumenical Relations, meeting at the Lutheran Church Center in Chicago, Oct.

As an unrepentant female I hesitate to note here that some men do indeed give birth. This particular incident has not been the happy nine months within the pampered heart of nubile fecundity, but rather an extended gestation stretching into years marked by false labor and peculiar urgings amid great huffings and puffings which sometimes came to naught.

The coordinated attacks of September 11, 2001 in the United States by militant Islamic extremists and the multi-leveled retaliation by the U.

In Seattle, hundreds of young people gather once a week for a traditional choral compline service by candlelight.