Liturgy Seminars

Liturgy Seminar part 1

The online liturgy seminar begins with lectures by Fr. Eckardt at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Kewanee, Illinois, in 2021, on the meaning of the liturgy of the Divine Service. The videos, in order, are here.


Liturgy Seminar part 2

The second part of the online liturgy seminar is a series of lectures by Fr. Petersen describing and demonstrating, at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2018, on how to conduct the liturgy of the Divine Service with a single pastor at a free-standing altar. The videos, in order, are here.


Liturgy Seminar part 3

The third part of the seminar is the video “The Form of the Divine Service,” which is a training video of an actual mass held in 2016 at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Hamel, Illinois, with a voice over of instructions for celebrant, deacon, and sub-deacon in a complete Divine Service. The video is here.


Rev. Dr. & Mrs Burnell F. Eckardt Jr. of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Kewanee, IL explain proper altar guild procedures in the video The Work of the Altar Guild: After the Mass, available HERE.

The Altar Guild