Are you looking for a book to study for your Lenten program or inquirers’ class this year? Gifts of God for the People of God would make a fine addition for your program or class. […]
Dear Ambrose: My parish is renewing their baptismal covenant on the Baptism of our Lord. At the Eucharist, do we use the proper preface for Baptism or Epiphany? Thanks for your question! If you have […]
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 about the Church’s liturgy? Have you been working in the Episcopal Church […]
Dear Ambrose: Is Epiphany a season? I have read church newsletters which talk about the “Season of Epiphany” but since the Sundays are counted after the Feast of the Epiphany that seems incorrect. What gives? […]
This year there are two Sundays in the Christmas season. Assuming that you will continue to sing Christmas carols well known to your congregation, here are a few suggestions for some Christmas hymns that might not […]
This one was so good we thought you’d like it again this year! So many of us who serve in smaller parishes are sometimes confronted with smaller than usual choirs for Christmas Eve and for […]
We are now at the beginning of the season of ADVENT. Advent opens the new “Church Year,” being the first of the liturgical seasons. This progression of seasons—Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, and Easter (concluding with […]
Dear Ambrose In times past Advent was thought of as a penitential season and sometimes called “a little Lent.” We don’t see much of that anymore. When and why did that change? Signed, Expectant Dear Expectant, […]
Beginning on Tuesday, February 25, 2020, the Stevenson School of Ministry in the Diocese of Central Pennsylvania, in partnership with Lifelong Learning at Virginia Theological Seminary, will offer an online class for clergy and musicians, Designing […]
Dear Ambrose: Over the years I have heard the terms “inclusive language” and “expansive language.” What is the difference? #mystified Dear Mystified: The short answer is this: Inclusive language refers to humanity and expansive language refers to God. The School of Theology at […]