Outline:
Recap:
- Reformation has issues with Roman Catholic worship
- Result is a move away from a sacramental focus
20th Century Liturgical Movement:
- Vatican II
- Can't talk about Liturgical Movement without Vatican II
- Was Roman Catholic expression of Lit. Movement
- Trickled down to other denominations
- 1979 Book of Common Prayer
- Was The Episcopal Church's response to Lit. Movement
- The product of:
- Many Years
- Top Scholars
- Local Input
- What it was
- Scholars were finding and reading older worship services
- Wanted to incorporate what they learned in modern worship
- What it did
- Helped us to think more about what worship means
- Lex Orandi, Lex Credendi- "Praying shapes believing"
- Key was returning to older texts
- Simplified worship
- Liturgical reforms always cull extraneous elements
- Look at the past helps show what is needed and what is not
- Allowed Lay Leadership in worship
- Prayers of the People returned to the People
- Allowed for more freedom in worship
- Gave license to rethink what everyone was doing
- Took Eastern practice of multiple Eucharistic Prayer options
- Made worship accessible
- ex. Vatican II switch from Latin to vernacular
- Focus
- Return to Scripture
- Best way to get back to Christian roots
- What Reformation wanted from Rome all along
- Return to Early church
- What Reformers wanted all along
- Early Reformers had huge respect for early church
- Some turned away from focus on early church leaders
- Replaced with Reformers themselves
- Unifying the church
- Means we all come together as one
- Practices in Eucharist meant showcase our unity
- Also meant focus on Ecumenicism
- Start to share practices in Eucharist
- Have conversations about Eucharistic Prayers with Ecumenical partners
- Share Lectionary with Revised Common Lectionary (RCL)
- Christian Formation
- How are we educating believers on Faith?
- Sermon becomes a focus again
- Some churches create catechism programs
- Note: these are all also the focus for the 1st Book of Common Prayer
- Questions to Ponder
- Could Roman Church have been reformed without Protestant split?
- Some reformers who stayed in the Roman Church thought so
- ex. Erasmus
- Luther wrote Bondage of the Will in response to his Freedom of the Will
- Interestingly Cranmer preferred Erasmus to Luther
- Erasmus did spend time in Cambridge
- Is there hope for continued denominational healing?
- Hopefully