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On Liturgical Layers

If you’ve ever visited the Grand Canyon (I have not yet), I’m told that there are explanations of the various strata on display in the layered effect of the rock. Each one, supposedly, bears record to a different era of the earth’s history.

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William WeedonComment
Easter by George Herbert

Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him mayst rise: That, as his death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and much more just.

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Anthony DodgersComment
The Strangeness of Easter

To my great surprise and delight, as I was paging through the Wall Street Journal last Saturday, I ran across a brilliant feature article by Robert Barron, the Roman Catholic Bishop of Los Angeles, entitled, “Recovering the Strangeness of Easter.” It highlights the irrefutable evidence of the historical reality of Jesus’ resurrection.

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Mortal Flesh before the Living God

In the Western Church, the historic Gospel for Easter, the Resurrection of our Lord, is Mark 16:1-8. The Gospel reading includes the angel announcing that Christ is risen from the dead, but ends with the women fleeing the tomb in fear. How can this be? What does this mean? Is fear the end of the Gospel?

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Jonathan ShawComment
An Exciting Announcement

Gottesdienst has the reputation of being inflexible in matters of liturgy, with the editors marching in rigid lockstep like Prussian soldiers with pointy helmets. In fact, there are lively debates and disagreements among our editors,

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Larry Beane Comments
A Lament for Laetare’s Collect

It is our pastor’s custom to pray the collect of the day with the assisting minister(s) and acolyte(s) before we head back for the entrance procession. And so he prayed the one LSB (and I believe LW) appointed for Laetare. And as he prayed, a nagging suspicion grew in my mind.

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