Throwback Thursday: How A New Pastor Should Add Ceremonies

Note: Gottesblog began in 2009. There are a lot of gems hidden under fifteen years of the sands of time. It was suggested that we do a Throwback Thursday feature every week. This is Fr. David Petersen’s advice from fifteen years ago, especially appropriate for younger pastors and recent ordinands looking for practical liturgical advice in bringing the treasure of the liturgy to their parishes, where what is old and authentic may seem new and out of place. This calls for pastoral wisdom. Pastor Petersen offers that here. ~ Ed.

Rites/CeremoniesDavid PetersenAugust 8, 2024TBTComment

Luther on Making the Sign of the Cross

What follows came from a listener of The Gottesdienst Crowd in response to a discussion with Petersen on making the sign of the cross. He pointed us to a wonderful online resource, a digital Loci Communes of sorts Luther Theology Web Page

Discerning the Lord's Body in the Celebration of His Holy Supper

Doctrine & Practice, Pastoral care, Rites/CeremoniesRick StuckwischJuly 27, 2023Lord's Supper, Ceremonies, Consecration, The Holy Communion Comments

On the Sign of the Holy Cross

After our district pastoral conference a few weeks ago, a brother asked me about making the sign of the cross during the opening versicles of Matins.

Rites/CeremoniesBen BallOctober 19, 2021Holy Cross, Sign of the Cross Comments

Acolyte Corps Quarantine Workout

Rites/CeremoniesJason BraatenMay 9, 2020Acolytes Comments

Making the Sign of the Cross Over People

Doctrine & Practice, Rites/CeremoniesJason BraatenNovember 16, 2019Sign of the Cross Comments

Genuflecting during the Creed: What, When, Why?

Liturgy, Rites/Ceremonies, Doctrine & PracticeJason BraatenNovember 8, 2019Creed, genuflect Comment

Respect the Genre

I praise you because you hold firmly to the traditions, just as I delivered them to you. But if any one is inclined to be contentious, we have no other practice, nor have the churches of God. (1 Corinthians 11:2, 16)

Why Do We Stand for the Gospel at the Divine Service?

Liturgy, Rites/CeremoniesJason BraatenOctober 17, 2019Standing for the Gospel Comments

Free Liturgical Resource

Rites/CeremoniesJason BraatenAugust 24, 2019Lamburn, Liturgical Resources Comments

Gottesdienst or Geldings in the Real World?

One of the things that I like about the Gottesdienst Crowd is that we are not advocates for the liturgy because of personal taste or effete sensibilities, or an intellectual devotion to historical marginalia. Pastors and laypeople involved in the life of the church understand that as the blood of Christ is the lifeblood of the Church, Sunday morning Divine Services are the vessels that carry the blood of the Lamb to us. Hence our name Gottesdienst.

Culture, Adiaphora, Music, Rites/Ceremonies, SynodLarry BeaneMay 25, 2019 Comments

Article 24 Matters!

In our churches Mass is celebrated every Sunday and on other festivals when the sacrament is offered to those who wish for it after they have been examined and absolved. We keep traditional liturgical forms, such as the order of the lessons, prayers, vestments, etc.

~ Apology 24:1 (Tappert Translation)

Culture, Adiaphora, Liturgy, Rites/CeremoniesLarry BeaneApril 3, 2019 Comments

Beware the Unleaven of the Pharisees

Rites/Ceremonies, LiturgySean DaenzerMarch 20, 2019Seder, Passover, Haggadah, Christian Seder, Jewish, Hebrew Roots, Unionism, Syncretism Comments

The Rite for Burning Palms before Ash Wednesday

Liturgy, Rites/CeremoniesJason BraatenMarch 11, 2019Podcast, Braden Comment