Gottesblog

The Western Church's calendar ranks the various days of the year according to the precedence one obervance takes over another. If you care to follow this traditional precedence rather than just the somewhat loosely defined precedence listed in LSB's calendar (which also happens to be rather idiosyncratic), then there is only one feast day that falls on a Sunday this summer: June 24, The Nativity of St. John the Baptist

Ah, the poor Anglicans. But, of course, tossing aside the liturgy to make room for home grown stuff has NOTHING AT ALL to do with their other problems. After all, the liturgy is just adiaphora. . .

A bit of piety amongst us Confessionals for the past several years has been to insist on calling the pastor's office his "study." The idea behind this piety is a good one: we're not office workers toiling away at "paper work," we are shepherd's who are called to study the Word of God in prayer.

If you wear surgical gloves for absolution and the holy handshake, and a surgical mask while baptizing the youngins then you'll want to look into this. 

When a pastor and congregation, or parts of a congregation, have conflict one of the chief complaints against the pastor will almost certainly be that he is arrogant.

LCMS Pastor: "You know pastors need pastors, too. They need to hear absolution. That's why every few months I have the congregation absolve me at the beginning of the service instead of the other way around."