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New liturgical handbook illuminates the heart of Orthodox worship: “The Divine Services of the Orthodox Church with Comm...

A groundbreaking new resource for Eastern Orthodox Christians has been published, offering clergy, laity, and inquirers an in-depth yet accessible guide to the Orthodox Church’s di...

Questions about liturgy: On Blessings

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university. The post Questions about litu...

Pope Leo XIV calls the liturgy the “driving force of evangelization” and urges priests to respect liturgical texts and n...

The Pope’s General Audience, May 27, 2026, on Tradition and Reform in the Liturgy The post Pope Leo XIV calls the liturgy the “driving force of evangelization” and urges priests to...

591. Holy Thursday Morning Vesperal Divine Liturgy of Saint Basil

We all know that in the Orthodox Church the Divine Liturgy is always a celebration, not allowed on the penitential weekdays of the Great Lenten Fast. We also know that Holy Week is...

Questions about liturgy: Incense Boat in a Procession

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university. The post Questions about litu...

Pope Leo XIV announces that he will speak regularly on the liturgy: and this is his first address

General Audience with the Pope, May 20, 2026, on the first document promulgated by the Second Vatican Council, on the Sacred Liturgy The post Pope Leo XIV announces that he will sp...

Questions about liturgy: Use of the Papal Ferula

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university. The post Questions about litu...

585. Holy Monday Morning: Vesperal Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

The Divine Liturgy is always a festival event. Therefore on the penitential weekdays of Lent and also on the ordinary weekdays of Holy Week, there is no celebration of the full Div...

Worshipping the Rising Son: The Temple, the Lamb, and Facing East

What happens after we die? Someone once gave examples to help formulate an answer. His help was in the form of questions: Have you tried to describe a rainbow to a man born blind?...

Questions about liturgy: Cloths on Altars

Answered by Legionary of Christ Father Edward McNamara, professor of liturgy and sacramental theology at the Pontifical Regina Apostolorum university. The post Questions about litu...

Prepare for Worship

Do you prepare for church worship?  We’re sadly casual when it comes to meeting God. Suppose you were invited to...

The Liturgical Life of the Garden: Prayerful Wisdom in the Seasons

There is a homily in the garden, if we still ourselves enough to hear it. It is the kind not preached with words, but received in the rhythms of sowing and reaping, in the new grow...

The liturgical shape of authentic Anglicanism

Original published in The Australian Church Record’s Easter 2026 Journal, Andrew Leslie reflects on authentic Anglicanism – “When you look beyond the Sydney Diocese at national or...

589. Holy Wednesday Morning Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

In case you’ve tuned in late to this series: These posts are “repeats” (with a little reworking each year) of my Holy Week posts from past years – which are based on talks I gave f...

596. Holy Saturday Morning: First Divine Liturgy of the Resurrection

Brothers and sisters, there is a whole lot going on this morning, so pay attention. This Liturgy begins as a celebration of Christ’s victory over Satan and death “down below”, and...

ROME 26/5– Day 61: initial notes on the encyclical

Liturgically busy day, just as it was in life.  I’m getting behind.  By the end of the day, I’m…. ugh. The Roman sun rose at 5:39. The Roman sun set at 20: 36. In the Curia the Ave...

Meeting at the Altar and the Man on the Cross

Then the two recounted what had taken place on the way and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread. The early Christians called the sacred mysteries Christ commanded...

“Creation in Christ” Annual Observance

This post gives the background and practical implications for an addition to the church year calendar. “Creation in Christ” (or “Feast of Creation”), to be observed on September 1...

597. Holy Saturday Midnight: The Great Paschal Service: Paschal Matins and Divine Liturgy

GREAT AND HOLY PASCHA!   Christ is risen! Truly he is risen! Father Alexander Schmemann called our Orthodox Paschal celebration “an explosion of joy”. I’ll say little: words are in...

Vestment Instruction from The World’s Best Sacristan™

583. Palm Sunday Divine Liturgy

Introduction Yesterday we celebrated the raising of Lazarus which was, as we sang, the “prefiguring of the General Resurrection”, when all mankind will be raised from death. “Those...

ROME 26/3– Day 09: Wednesday in Holy Week

Tonight during Tenebrae we sang: Tuus est dies, et tua est nox: * tu fabricátus es auróram et solem. Tu fecísti omnes términos terræ: * æstátem et ver tu plasmásti ea. The Lord’s S...

Daily Devotional 4.7.26

My life is set apart to worship God. The post Daily Devotional 4.7.26 appeared first on First United Methodist Church of Fort Worth.

587. Holy Tuesday Morning: Vesperal Divine Liturgy of the Presanctified Gifts

Kievan chant, sung by “Archangel Voices” Troparion/Apolytikion of Bridegroom Matins Alleluia. Behold, the Bridegroom comes at midnight, and blessed is that servant whom He shall fi...