https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-in-liturgy-from-the-two-popes/ National News from the Anglican Church of Canada Wed, 15 Apr 2020 17:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-in-liturgy-from-the-two-popes/#comment-32448 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 21:22:44 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163248#comment-32448 As a long-time devotee of C.S. Lewis and Tolkien and their emphasis on the reality and significance of the numinous, which is also mentioned in the article, I wonder about this: At the last supper as recorded in the Bible, did Jesus sit with his disciples, in their midst? Of course. Was there a sense of the numinous there? I am quite sure there was, without a high altar, an officiant with his back to the disciples, an “officiant” who washed their feet. I suggest that the solution to moving the altar away from the wall is to put it in the centre of the congregation.

]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-in-liturgy-from-the-two-popes/#comment-32445 Tue, 14 Apr 2020 20:03:35 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163248#comment-32445 A well-reasoned piece.

]]> https://anglicanjournal.com/lessons-in-liturgy-from-the-two-popes/#comment-32432 Mon, 13 Apr 2020 19:55:24 +0000 https://anglicanjournal.com/?p=163248#comment-32432 “Benedict was also notorious for his taste for red papal shoes, lace albs and damask silk vestments. He even restored the use of papal vestments that had fallen into disuse. (This includes his rather unfortunate experiment reviving the papal camauro.” ” both by eschewing worldly luxuries and by worshipping God in the beauty of holiness.” Don’t these two excerpts seem to be contradictory

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