In the great city where he lived, life was always gay. Every day many strangers came to town, and among them one day came two swindlers. They let it be known they were weavers, and they said they could weave the most magnificent fabrics imaginable. Not only were their colors and patterns uncommonly fine, but clothes made of this cloth had a wonderful way of becoming invisible to anyone who was unfit for his office, or who was unusually stupid.

I’m against changing our pastoral formation paradigm not because I’m afraid of something. I just believe that pastoral formation is important, and like training lawyers, soldiers, doctors, and pilots, is not only about the acquisition of information, but of being formed into a way of life.

For the last few years, we’ve been testing The Lutheran Missal materials with a limited field testing audience, first the temporal lectionary, then the sanctuary lectionary, then the gradual texts, after that the collects, and now the complends (post-communions) and super populums (for weekdays in Lent).

We’re happy to announce that now anyone can access the mass texts for every day of the year in the new app for The Lutheran Missal, available for iOS and Android.