Some place between 40 and Death
Posted in Worship at SGN on 11 May 2008 - 7 אייר 5768
Continuing with our serialised posting of Rick Fabian’s Worship at St Gregory’s…
Recurrent threats to church unity dictated further changes. For a time each presbyteral council ordained one member as chief under the new arrangement, or imported a presbyter from another church and ordained him themselves. That is how the presbyters of Gaul ordained [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN on 7 May 2008 - 3 אייר 5768
Continuing our series from Worship At St Gregory’s by Rick Fabian…
Christian institutions developed independently of these scriptural images, however, and reshaped them. At first Jesus’ followers at Jerusalem made his brother James their leader, much as Muslims would one day vest authority in a succession of Mohammed’s blood relatives, called caliphs.(*) There James [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN on 6 May 2008 - 2 אייר 5768
Our continuing series from Worship At St Gregory’s by Rick Fabian
Editor’s Notes: this History section was originally an addendum to the text. I think it belongs here as an introduction to the section on Liturgical Ministry at SGN. So many of the choices made by SGN are based on the historical understanding expressed [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN on 3 May 2008 - 29 ניסן 5768
In the continuing series from Worship at St. Gregory’s, by Rick Fabian.
Our chosen patron saint, Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa (hence called Gregory Nyssen) died about the year 395. His church lay in the Roman province of Cappadocia, today’s central Turkey. Born to a prominent Kurdish Christian family, he enjoyed a layman’s quiet career [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN on 1 May 2008 - 27 ניסן 5768
From Worship at St Gregorys, the first part of our series.
The Book of Common Prayer at St Gregorys.
The Book of Common Prayer unites diverse Anglican churches in one worship life, which we share with Christians of all times and places. The American Episcopal Church’s Prayer Book of 1979 goes further than any [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN, church geekery, liturgy on 28 April 2008 - 24 ניסן 5768
Hey, fellow Liturgy People:
Christ is Risen!
I’ve received permission from the author and the copyright holders to edit and serialise “Worship at St Gregory’s” onto my blog. This document offers up the historical research and liturgical justification behind most of the community’s practices at St Gregory of Nyssa parish in San Francisco. (My editing [...]
Posted in Worship at SGN, liturgy on 2 April 2008 - 27 אדר ב' 5768
The topic of the topic of SGN’s non-use of the Creed at Eucharist came up in the comments to Serge’s recent post on the video of the Easter Liturgy.
It took a while for me to find a copy of “Worship At St Gregory’s” by Rick Fabian. I finally had to resort to the [...]
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