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We continue with the serialised posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship At St Gregory’s. These few remaining post-communion rites conclude the liturgy proper as well as the portion of the text dealing with the liturgy itself.
E Give in response to God’s gifts to us, and so take part in God’s generosity. Hence this moment [...]

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Continuing with the serialised posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s: permission obtained from the author and the publisher.
SHORT Prayerful Silence ends the Communion. After communion the vessels return to the table and are veiled against insects once again. Current fashion favors sending the remaining bread and wine for consumption offstage; but we [...]

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The posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s continues (by permission of the author and the publisher) with the portion on the communion rites.
E HAVE already sung the Lord’s Prayer to begin the Prayers of the People, and do not repeat it here. R. Taft has argued (at a North American Academy of [...]

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We continue with the serialised posts of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s, made here with the permission of the author and the publisher.
ollowing rabbinical custom, the Presider secures the congregation’s assent, (”Let us give thanks… It is right…”) and begins the Great Thanksgiving prayer, from which the entire Eucharistic Liturgy (Greek for “Thanksgiving [...]

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Continuing with our serialised posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s, with the permission of the author and the publisher.
Transition Between Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharistic Rite During the peace and the transfer of Gifts, Deacons recruit laypeople to close the church’s glass inner doors. This was the signal for the [...]

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We continue with the serialised posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s, with the permission of the author and the publisher.
Editor’s Note: In the print version of Worship at St Gregory’s, the following text appears between the passages discussing the Preface and the Great Thanksgiving. I Have moved it forward one step, [...]

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We continue with the postings from Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s, with the permission of the author and the publisher.
When the Procession hymn finishes, the Presider announces the Kiss of Peace: the clergy kiss the table, and all embrace each other throughout the church, saying “Peace be with you!”

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We continue with the postings from Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s, with the permission of the author and the publisher.
Now the Clergy lead the people to the altar area, singing a hymn and marching together in the ancient Tripudium step: three steps forward, one step back. This dance survives in Luxembourg today, where it [...]

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Continuing with the posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship At St Gregory’s (with the permission of the author and the publisher).

The deacon introduces the Prayers Of The People. These begin with the Lord’s Prayer, continue with a free Littany — launched and prompted by the deacon — and finish as the Presider prays the Collect [...]

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The Sermon The Presider (or another preacher) preaches seated as Jesus and other rabbis did (Luke 4:20), and as Christian preachers continued to do until liturgical preaching faded in the early middle ages. The scriptures lie open on the preacher’s lap, for ready reference. After the Sermon and a third Silence, [...]

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