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Ask Ambrose: Seasonal Blessings

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on September 8, 2016December 30, 2019
  • Ask Ambrose
Jesus Christ Pantocrator Icon from Hagia Sophia

Q: I’m looking for a variety of liturgical seasonal blessings to use at the end of the Holy Eucharist. The Book of Common Prayer only lists two such blessings in Rite I, and they are […]

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The Great AMEN: Say It Like You Mean It

  • by liturgyandmusic
  • Posted on August 1, 2016August 1, 2016
  • The Weekly Word
Mosaic of Christ instituting the Eucharist

True confession time! For some time I’ve been troubled when the AMEN at the end of the Eucharistic prayer is said in such a lackluster manner in some churches that I wonder why we bother. […]

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I have worked with Ellen Johnston at Music, Liturgy, and the Arts as we
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