Lutheran Missal Project

[JM]

 

[The Liturgist]

Very nice indeed.

Hopefully this might inspire a new wave of Lutheran composers such as graced the church during the Lutheran Orthodox period and the period immediately following, during the era of Dietrich Buxtehude and JS Bach and his sons.

 

[The Liturgist]

Do you have any updates on this project?

 

[JM]

Latest was during Advent.

The Fourth Sunday in Advent

The introit “Memento nostri” for the Fourth Sunday in Advent from Cantica Sacra (1613), the Gradual and Antiphonary of the Lutheran Cathedral in Magdeburg. The Common Service of 1888 wa…

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[The Liturgist]

Latest was during Advent.

The Fourth Sunday in Advent

The introit “Memento nostri” for the Fourth Sunday in Advent from Cantica Sacra (1613), the Gradual and Antiphonary of the Lutheran Cathedral in Magdeburg. The Common Service of 1888 wa…

lutheranmissal.home.blog

Hey @JM how is this project coming?

 

[JM]

The Propers, Part 1—The Sense of the Texts

The Propers (that is, the Introit, Gradual, Tract, Alleluia, Sequence, Offertory, and Communion) are an integral part of the Divine Service. More than any other part of the liturgy, they give shape…

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[The Liturgist]

The Propers, Part 1—The Sense of the Texts

The Propers (that is, the Introit, Gradual, Tract, Alleluia, Sequence, Offertory, and Communion) are an integral part of the Divine Service. More than any other part of the liturgy, they give shape…

lutheranmissal.home.blog

Ah that is glorious to read.

The propers are so important to all liturgical rites, particularly those related to the Divine Office, since historically the Eucharist itself was largely invariant (much more so in the East than in the West, I would note, so in the West you get more propers for the Mass, whereas in the East the Scriptural lessons for the Divine Liturgy, for example, on Pascha, only make sense in the context of a service that begins with Matins and then progresses to the Liturgy itself, and if one attends the Vesperal Divine Liturgy (or in the West the Vigils Mass) on the morning of Holy Saturday (because in Holy Week, time was traditionally inverted for the services, with the mass being at midnight on Pascha and vespers in the Morning), which all catechumens attended, where the Old Testament lessons that foretold the resurrection were read while the baptisms were performed. Thus the neophytes have been prepared for illumination in the Paschal liturgy.

 

[JM]

My congregation is introducing the Lutheran Missal this Sunday for the first time.

 

[The Liturgist]

My congregation is introducing the Lutheran Missal this Sunday for the first time.

Lovely! Very good news.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

My congregation is introducing the Lutheran Missal this Sunday for the first time.

My dear friend, Rev. Matthew Fenn mentioned that the main scriptural translation is the NKJV, and that the reason was the generous copyright access vs. the arm and two legs required to buy the rights to the ESV. We used NKJV back in the 80's in our Parish, for no other reason that our Pastor at that time had used it in Sem.

 

[JM]

My dear friend, Rev. Matthew Fenn mentioned that the main scriptural translation is the NKJV, and that the reason was the generous copyright access vs. the arm and two legs required to buy the rights to the ESV. We used NKJV back in the 80's in our Parish, for no other reason that our Pastor at that time had used it in Sem.

When I asked on X I was told by many good sources that the ESV was cheaper than the NKJV for the LCMS Synod as a whole so we went that way.

Either way, I'm happy we are using the NKJV. I will be reading this Lord's Day and I'm looking forward to it.

"Bishop Jeff Miskus presided over the installation of Rev. Dionatan Ferreira (center) to serve the congregation of Our Saviour's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chatham, Ontario. Pastor Ferreira also serves Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Amherstburg, Ontario (Lutheran Church—Canada). The service was well attended. Pictured here with Rev. Ferreira and Bishop Miskus is Rev. Marvin Bublitz, Regional Pastor of the LCC Eastern Region."

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[The Liturgist]

When I asked on X I was told by many good sources that the ESV was cheaper than the NKJV for the LCMS Synod as a whole so we went that way.

Either way, I'm happy we are using the NKJV. I will be reading this Lord's Day and I'm looking forward to it.

"Bishop Jeff Miskus presided over the installation of Rev. Dionatan Ferreira (center) to serve the congregation of Our Saviour's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chatham, Ontario. Pastor Ferreira also serves Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Amherstburg, Ontario (Lutheran Church—Canada). The service was well attended. Pictured here with Rev. Ferreira and Bishop Miskus is Rev. Marvin Bublitz, Regional Pastor of the LCC Eastern Region."

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Oh you have beautiful vestments, you and Mark’s church both are liturgically resplendant!

I find myself wishing there was an award that could be given to churches that do a particularly good job at liturgy, so as to recognize the appreciation of liturgical beauty, but not an award the awarding of which would be any kind of show, but rather just something that would pop out of no where to recognize the clergy, choirs and chancery or vestry or equivalent internal management structure of a church whose liturgy exuded beauty, as a means of glorifying God.

By the way I increasingly support open source Bible translations and those already in the public domain; one thing I admire about the Episcopal Church is historically they released all of their editions of the Book of Common Prayer into the public domain.

Also if memory serves, the Lutheran adaptation of the BCP that formed the basis for various historical Lutheran liturgies in the US such as the 1941 Lutheran hymnal was in the public domain, I think its called the “Common Service” and was a modification of the BCP to meet the specific Eucharistic and liturgical needs of the Lutheran churches, which at the time were primarily celebrating the Divine Service in the languages of the Old Country, such as German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and so on - especially in German. I wonder if any German speaking Lutheran churches still exist in North America or if German is now used primarily by Old Order Mennonites, the related Amish group, and other Radical Reformed groups? There is a seriously endangered Lutheran speaking community in Texas which I don’t think is affiliated with the Mennonites, but it could be.

Of course we do have a few German and Scandinavian language churches such as those operated for mariners, but unfortunately in the case of the Scandinavian Lutheran churches if I recall all of these are associated with the churches in their own countries. If I recall the only Lutheran church in Europe that is part of the ILC along with the LCMS and the LCC is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. Interestingly, since the downfall of the former USSR, while the liberal Estonian church has not been able to substantially increase its membership vs. the large number of secular atheists who fell victim to the massive Soviet propaganda campaign and its aggressive subversion of various churches (with minority churches like the Lutherans being much more heavily scrutinized), the more traditional Latvian church has regained 30% of the population of that country, which is a huge victory for European Christianity.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

Oh you have beautiful vestments, you and Mark’s church both are liturgically resplendant!

I find myself wishing there was an award that could be given to churches that do a particularly good job at liturgy, so as to recognize the appreciation of liturgical beauty, but not an award the awarding of which would be any kind of show, but rather just something that would pop out of no where to recognize the clergy, choirs and chancery or vestry or equivalent internal management structure of a church whose liturgy exuded beauty, as a means of glorifying God.

By the way I increasingly support open source Bible translations and those already in the public domain; one thing I admire about the Episcopal Church is historically they released all of their editions of the Book of Common Prayer into the public domain.

Also if memory serves, the Lutheran adaptation of the BCP that formed the basis for various historical Lutheran liturgies in the US such as the 1941 Lutheran hymnal was in the public domain, I think its called the “Common Service” and was a modification of the BCP to meet the specific Eucharistic and liturgical needs of the Lutheran churches, which at the time were primarily celebrating the Divine Service in the languages of the Old Country, such as German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian and so on - especially in German. I wonder if any German speaking Lutheran churches still exist in North America or if German is now used primarily by Old Order Mennonites, the related Amish group, and other Radical Reformed groups? There is a seriously endangered Lutheran speaking community in Texas which I don’t think is affiliated with the Mennonites, but it could be.

Of course we do have a few German and Scandinavian language churches such as those operated for mariners, but unfortunately in the case of the Scandinavian Lutheran churches if I recall all of these are associated with the churches in their own countries. If I recall the only Lutheran church in Europe that is part of the ILC along with the LCMS and the LCC is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia. Interestingly, since the downfall of the former USSR, while the liberal Estonian church has not been able to substantially increase its membership vs. the large number of secular atheists who fell victim to the massive Soviet propaganda campaign and its aggressive subversion of various churches (with minority churches like the Lutherans being much more heavily scrutinized), the more traditional Latvian church has regained 30% of the population of that country, which is a huge victory for European Christianity.

More than just the Latvians; SELK in Germany; Mission Diocese of Finland, Iceland and Lapland; Free Lutheran Church in France (they use or Canadian French translation of LSB, as do a bunch of French speaking Anglicans in Quebec), Mission Province of Sweden; Ukrainian Lutheran Church; Ingrian Lutheran Church in Siberia, and a whole ship-load of others. LOL Oops, forgot the small, confessional Synod in England. Some of these we are in full fellowship with, some we are in discussion with.

My Pastor's former parish in Oshawa just installed a Latvian Pastor.

Confessional Lutheranism has never been this vibrant in many years!!

BTW, we love the translations that we gleaned from the BoCP, but there are some issues that remained and even crept into LSB. One of which is in the Te Deum from Matins.