When introducing a new service these days, most churches seem to go the rock ”˜n’ roll route ”” something new to bring in a younger crowd.
To say that Trinity Episcopal Church went in another direction might be a bit of an understatement.
When the church decided to add a new service in fall 2006, instead of looking forward, it looked back.
Way back. As in the fourth century.
the picture at the top of the story is captioned incorrectly: he’s doing the asperges, so that’s holy water and not incense.
and if it’s high solemn mass- where’s the priest’s maniple? and where are the two other sacred ministers?
Content: “Kyrie Eleison, the Gloria in Excelsis, the Credo, the Sanctus and Benedictus and the Agnus Dei,” – stuff you might actually believe and live for and die for! What a concept!
I’ve only worn a maniple once in almost 28 years as a priest, but I’ve celebrated solemn high mass countless times.
Rudy, that makes many of us [url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/damianthompson/3684161/Miaow_if_you_believe_in_maniples]very sad[/url].
Makes me glad and sad at the same time. This is what drew me into the Church when I was a college student. I knew the liturgy by heart. I can still sing the kyrie, gloria, creed, sanctus, and agnus from memoiry though my former parish hadn’t used them in thirty years (the musical settings, I mean.) I still long for a solemn High Mass using the Liturgy we all knew by heart.
Dumb Sheep.
I do miss the sung services, such as Evensong, and I admit to missing the incense, the plainsong, the sacring bells (anyone remember what those are?) that we used in the Diocese of New Jersey many years ago (40+), although we’ve begun using them at Holy Eucharist in our church.