By: Adam Quinan

Adam Quinan — Tue, 26 May 2020 22:11:22 +0000

The on-line servces at our church (Church of the Incarnation in North York) originally started with eucharists but now in recent weeks it has been the Morning Prayer.
For me this has been a breath of fresh air. While I realise the Eucharist is the principal service of the church, I also very much miss the Morning and Evening Prayer services that were for centuries the mainstay of Anglican worship. I am saddened that these services have in recent decades become minor and neglected forms of worship. I hope that perhaps one outcome of this current pandemic is that these services will be restored, if not to their former prominence, at least to have some part in the worship of the church.

By: The Rev'd Dr Holly Ratcliffe

The Rev'd Dr Holly Ratcliffe — Thu, 09 Apr 2020 22:41:32 +0000

I quote you: “Nicholls and Skelton note that the centrality of the Eucharist to worship is a fairly recent development in Christianity, one that followed the liturgical renewal movement.” Not. It may be a recent “development” in some spheres of Anglicanism, but the centrality of the Eucharist was never in question in Roman Catholic or Eastern traditions of Christianity.

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