Covid Lock-down.... And Liturgy

[MarkRohfrietsch]

Hi everyone,
Here in Ontario Canada, we have been fighting a battle with an ever increasing infection rate with Covid 19. We are running out of ICU beds in our hospitals, and death rates continue to climb. As a result, our provincial government has put us back into lock-down, again limiting attendance to 10 persons for services.

We are again doing on line services only, while trying to retain traditional liturgical practices. Below I am posting two of our services; Evening Prayer from Epiphany this past Wednesday, and the service from the previous Sunday. The Sunday Service we are using a service that is pretty much exclusively Lutheran; the Missa anti Communio (Mass without Communion). It retains much of the fullness of the Divine Service, but without the Eucharist. Please feel free to post examples of your on-line Covid Liturgies.

Disclaimer: The older incompetent guy serving as deacon is me; our Pastor Rev Matt Fenn is the young, intelligent one. LOL.

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=238169041147292

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=406796510534264

 

[The Liturgist]

Beautiful. When it comes to liturgical beauty, the LCMS, the high church Anglicans, the Moravians, the Old Catholics*, traditional Roman Catholics of the Roman, Dominican, Norbertine, Bragan, Carmelite, Lyonaise, Carthusian, Maronite, Mozarabic and Ambrosian rites, the Eastern Orthodox, the Oriental Orthodox, the Church of the East,** some Methodist churches, and some Presbyterian churches which embrace Mercersburg theology and have a liturgical focus, are where its at.***

* Particularly the Polish National Catholic Church
** And the corresponding Eastern Catholic rites
*** If anyone knows of any other liturgical churches with particularly beautiful services, please let me know and also provide photos or videos so we can bask in the glory

 

[George95]

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[The Liturgist]

@MarkRohfrietsch you know, one actual blessing to stem from this great tragedy, a small silver lining on this bleak cloud, has been that a great many churches which previously did not record, upload and stream their services now do so. This makes it possible for me to view services in some of my favorite parishes around the world, for example, in some Anglican and German Lutheran parishes. Some other churches, like the Duomo in Milan, the cradle and center of the beautiful Ambrosian liturgy, the excellent Greek Orthodox parish of St. George South Bay, the Carpatho-Rusyn Cathedral of St. Gregory of Nyssa, and the ROCOR cathedral in Washington DC, have been uploading for years, but now I can also watch, for example, the traditional morning service at Park Street Church in Boston (the last traditional liturgical Congregational church in Boston not to become subject to the politicized modern day United Church of Christ, or to apostatize to the Unitarian Universalist Association).

It is also useful even in the case of churches I don’t like; as you may recall I am in to tracking and documenting the tragic spread of heterodoxy, having seen the devastation it caused the United Church of Christ, and is causing in many Episcopalian and other mainline Protestant churches, and this allows me to view the services of problem parishes in those denominations without having to actually go there.

 

[MarkRohfrietsch]

@MarkRohfrietsch you know, one actual blessing to stem from this great tragedy, a small silver lining on this bleak cloud, has been that a great many churches which previously did not record, upload and stream their services now do so. This makes it possible for me to view services in some of my favorite parishes around the world, for example, in some Anglican and German Lutheran parishes. Some other churches, like the Duomo in Milan, the cradle and center of the beautiful Ambrosian liturgy, the excellent Greek Orthodox parish of St. George South Bay, the Carpatho-Rusyn Cathedral of St. Gregory of Nyssa, and the ROCOR cathedral in Washington DC, have been uploading for years, but now I can also watch, for example, the traditional morning service at Park Street Church in Boston (the last traditional liturgical Congregational church in Boston not to become subject to the politicized modern day United Church of Christ, or to apostatize to the Unitarian Universalist Association).

It is also useful even in the case of churches I don’t like; as you may recall I am in to tracking and documenting the tragic spread of heterodoxy, having seen the devastation it caused the United Church of Christ, and is causing in many Episcopalian and other mainline Protestant churches, and this allows me to view the services of problem parishes in those denominations without having to actually go there.

Indeed, we are reaching some Sundays, 3 times what would have been a pre-Covid attendance.