tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post110774283572504766..comments2024-02-19T05:09:00.099-06:00Comments on Lutheran Confessions: Mid-Week Lenten WorshipClint Schneklothhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-1108427488206198442005-02-14T18:31:00.000-06:002005-02-14T18:31:00.000-06:00Thanks your reminder of the link between private a...Thanks your reminder of the link between private and congregational devotions. My only concern with For All the Saints is the price. I use it for my own devotions, but it costs $120, quite a sum to encourage people to spend. But you are correct in your linking home and church pray-ing. Thank you.Clint Schneklothhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00707900080657719369noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4020417.post-1108408047600174922005-02-14T13:07:00.000-06:002005-02-14T13:07:00.000-06:00Something that might help grease the skids to gett...Something that might help grease the skids to getting your people more interested in congregation offices -- and hence, to making the effort to show up -- is to help your members discover more "liturgical" sources for their daily devotions. <br /><br />For example, the American Lutheran Publicity Bureau (publisher of Lutheran Forum and of Pro Ecclesia) has published the 4-volume "For All the Saints." It provides an all-inclusive package for every day of the year -- Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, the Psalter, 4 lessons (per the 2-year daily lectionary) per day (including one from a "saint" ancient or modern). It has the advantage of being drawn directly from LBW, so that there is easy identification with congregational offices. (If you do evening prayer as a congregation and then people do that office at home on other evenings, there is a two-fold result: First, the pray-er recognizes the link between "individual" piety and being church. Second, the pray-er sees how much is missing in <br />private prayer, when compared with congregational prayer -- fellowship, harmony in song, setting.) <br /><br />Phyllis Tickle has done something similar (and her volumes almost look a little more like the Roman Office).<br /><br />There are a couple of websites that serve the function too, although the ones I know are less "traditional" in the office they make available.<br /><br />Such resources, and they are numerous, are, I think, better than the paper devotionals most of our congregations make available precisely they are more attuned to the cycle of church observances. By their structure, they keep one nested in the Church -- not off exploring one's own personal and private experience/faith.<br /><br />As an STS brother, you probably should read your commitment to include leading your parishioners (why is it spelled that way?) to a more "catholic" prayer life. This would be one way to do it. <br /><br />Peace to you. Thank you for thinking about this!<br /><br />DwightDwight P.https://www.blogger.com/profile/15849665963994688905noreply@blogger.com