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The Liturgy Explained – New Edition

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 16, 2020December 14, 2020
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The Rev. Dr. James Farwell, Professor of Liturgy and Theology at Virginia Theological Seminary, has updated his laudable book, The Liturgy Explained. Frequent contributor to Music, Liturgy and the Arts, Michael Smith, offers a review […]

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Designing Dynamic Liturgies

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 14, 2020December 14, 2020
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Designing Dynamic Liturgies: A Ten Week Course for Clergy and Musicians Are you a musician who is working in the Episcopal Church for the first time? Are you a vocational deacon who desires  to know more […]

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Ask Ambrose

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 11, 2020December 8, 2020
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Dear Ambrose: I am planning ahead and looking at the Feast of the Epiphany. January 6 falls on a Wednesday and our parish won’t be able to observe the feast on a weekday. What are […]

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It’s Christmas Already, Though Not yet

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 8, 2020December 8, 2020
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The Rev. Dr. Juan M.C. Oliver, Custodian of the Book of Common Prayer and member of the Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music, contributes this article to Music, Liturgy, and the Arts. I’ve been thinking […]

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Ask Ambrose

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 4, 2020December 3, 2020
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Dear Ambrose: We are now in a new Liturgical Year. What resources can you recommend for Prayers of the People besides Formsd I-VI in the Book of Common Prayer? Signed, Tired of Form VI Dear […]

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A Different Kind of Communion

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on December 2, 2020December 2, 2020
  • The Weekly Word

by Cara Ellen Modisett VTS Middler, Cara Ellen Modisett, a frequent contributor to Music, Liturgy, and the Arts, shares a sermon she wrote for the Last Sunday after Pentecost, Christ the King, Sunday. While it […]

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A Report on the Gathering on Liturgical Formation (or) What has the SCLM been doing since the 79th General Convention?

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on October 30, 2020October 30, 2020
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~~~~~~~~~~~~ The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) receives its marching orders from the General Convention. Resolutions having to do with liturgy and music are sent to the SCLM. Among others the SCLM was […]

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Quarantined Choirs

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020
  • The Weekly Word

Church musicians are learning new ways to convene their choirs and new ways to make music during these days of COVID-19. We are told that rehearsing in person is dangerous to all unless very strict […]

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Collects for Pandemic Sanctuaries

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on September 7, 2020September 2, 2020
  • The Weekly Word

Cara Modisett, a middler at VTS who is also a fine church musician, has composed three lovely collects for the pandemic church while on retreat.  Here is what she says about them: “Last week, I packed […]

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A Gathering on Liturgical Formation

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  • Posted on August 31, 2020August 31, 2020
  • News

The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music (SCLM) will host a Gathering on Liturgical Formation, a educational opportunity on the liturgy of the Episcopal Church. This event, which is co-sponsored by Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological […]

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We are delighted to have the help of the Music, Liturgy, and the Arts in planning our daily worship for our intensive Doctor of Ministry sessions in January and June. Our liturgies during these sessions of our ecumenical doctoral program are drawn from a variety of Christian denominations in addition to the Episcopal tradition, following a lectionary that focuses on Biblical texts emphasized in the doctoral program's course of study. It is no easy matter to plan a sequence of liturgies that provide both constancy and variety, an honoring of both the dominant tradition and the traditions of other traditions represented in the learning community. The CLM has helped us succeed in striking the balance—and has been a tremendous resource in planning music for liturgies, seeking creative liturgies, and working with chapel teams and musicians to offer prayerful and joyful worship.

- The Rev. Dr. David T. Gortner, Associate Dean of Church and Community Engagement, Director of the Doctor of Ministry Program and Professor of Evangelism and Congregational Leadership at Virginia Theological Seminary

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