Even though I took Portuguese as my required language at the University of Georgia, I never really got the hang of it, and so after twenty years I go to Google (rather than my own skill) to read the site of the Congregação Unitarista de Pernambuco, no Brasil. That is, in Brazil. (And that’s about [...]
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Speaking of social relevance
How did I miss this video? Looks like it’s a serious ministry outreach, if serious is quite the right word.
HT: Jim B.
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Against intinction
I just mentioned how I wasn’t feeling well. Looking back, I think whatever I have has been brewing since last Saturday, so I can’t blame a communion-based infection from church Sunday. But I still don’t like intinction.
This was in a “low church” congregation with a tradition — as evidenced by their pagoda-like communion ware — [...]
Communion Service, Cambridge
British Unitarian minister and blogger (CAUTE) Andrew Brown announces the Christmas Eve service at his church, the Memorial Church (Unitarian), Cambridge.
You may download PDFs of the Christmas service, within which communion service takes place. I scratched my head in a couple of places. First, I’m prone to worry when someone takes the Universalist ministerial [...]
Liturgy site strong on sacrament
Fr. Bosco Peters, an Anglican priest in New Zealand, has prepared a resource-filled site at Liturgy.co.nz. His resources on the Eucharist are particularly strong; the beauty piece is the text of his dead-tree book Celebrating Eucharist may be downloaded in parts (in PDF) too. (There’s a good moral for published authors who want to leverage [...]
Maundy Thursday service visit
Perhaps I’m just grouchy or it’s a side-effect of not going to church very much any more, but I don’t have much patience for mainline Protestant worship. The Maundy Thursday service I attended tonight wasn’t bad as such, but could have been made much better by few changes. So I make these recommendations with [...]
Which UU churches will have Christian communion next week?
If there’s going to be one Christian service of communion in a Unitarian Universalist (or Universalist or Unitarian) churches in a year, it will probably be in Holy Week: at Maundy Thursday, Palm Sunday or perhaps (a bit eccentric, but probably a surviving morsel of Victorian liberal theology) Good Friday.
There’s a hint, but not [...]
How do the Transylvanian Unitarians give and receive Communion?
A logistical question.
While I had the pleasure of assisting the Transylvanian Unitarian bishop and his provost distribute Communion at the Unitarian Universalist Christian Fellowship Revival conference that my former pastorate hosted, the church’s architecture is unlike those in Transylvania so I don’t know how the distribution would take place there.
To recap, from what I’ve read [...]
Communion service blog news
There were two recent blog posts others wrote that I wanted to lift up respecting Communion.
1. Cee Jay (Cee Jay’s Cyber Space) notes how the interim minister of her church recommends a monthly communion service — either before or after the main service — and she suggests this might fill a liturgical and pastoral void. [...]
For sale: “European Perspectives on Communion”
About five years ago, I got a small cache of the then brand-new book European Perspectives on Communion because there was at that time no convenient way to order them from Northern Ireland. A pair of NSPCI ministers were visiting the area and they agreed to bring some along. We were going to meet but [...]
