Oct 18, 2023Liked by Kristin Haakenson, Dixie Dillon Lane
This is awesome! Cannot wait to see what comes from this project. I am pretty much completely unfamiliar with the liturgical calendar but am really interested, excited to learn, and participate!
Also, is there a good app for the liturgical calendar? I want to go ahead and get myself more acquainted with it.
I use Liturgical! They’ve got a lil widget, with the vestment color/seasonal color for each day. Super simple, not a ton of like… liturgical living details… but just for, like, feast day and season at a glance, it’s super helpful!
Oct 19, 2023Liked by Sara Dietz, Kristin Haakenson
Did the readings from Liturgical this morning! I loved it! So, everyone who is actually using and participating in the liturgical calendar today read the exact same thing, correct? I’m clearly new at this haha
I'm not familiar with the Liturgical app (sounds so handy though!!)...but the general idea is that the liturgical calendar - all the feasts and fasts, etc - coordinate with the lectionary, which walks us through the life of Christ every year. I think most liturgical Protestant churches use the Revised Common Lectionary, which is a 3-year cycle of readings...and I believe that the RCL was developed from the Ordo Lectionum Missae (the Catholic Lectionary for Mass)? I'm fairly sure that the RCL and OLM follow a similar pattern, but I'd love to hear input on that.
Anyhoo, anyone participating in liturgical worship centering around a lectionary is essentially reading the same scripture ("pericopes," or sections) as other folks each day. And then the goal is that through this, everyone essentially covers the whole Bible every three years!
Oct 20, 2023Liked by Sara Dietz, Kristin Haakenson
So cool! About ten years ago now I went on my first of two mission trips to Haiti. Even though it was less that a three hour flight from Miami, that was the first time I got a sense of the Christian faith and the community of the faithful being global, going far beyond my local context. I knew that in my head already but that was the first time I felt it. Since then I have often reminded myself that I have brothers and sister around the world.
The fact that participating in the liturgical Calendar means I’m reading the same verses, prayers and focusing on the same things about Christ and the church as many brothers and sisters around the world is an amazing. There is a real connectivity there.
So, I’m not sure about more liturgically-minded Protestants or Orthodox churches, but all the Catholic Churches (Roman, at least, I’m unsure on like the Ruthenian or Maronite or other Catholic branches) use the same readings every day, which are tuned in with the liturgical seasons and the saints calendar. I feel like we need Kristin or James or Hambone to chime in here—I’m not new at this but don’t know much about the lectionary/cycle of readings!
I thought I saw a post from Signs & Seasons asking for input for the end of Lent, Passiontide and Easter. But I can't find it. Was it you? Would you be interested in this idea? I put together a linked list of posts I did at Dappled Things with art from James Tissot illustrating the events of Holy Week. I've been writing and researching about Tissot for several years. When his illustrations went on exhibit around the world, people were so overcome by the portrayals of the Gospels, they would fall to their knees and cry and faint. James Jacques Tissot was an immensely popular and fabulously rich French realist painter of worldly scenes and friend to the Impressionists, who decided not to join when invited by Edgar Degas to the first Impressionists’ show. Tissot continued painting in a realist style even after it went out of fashion. After his conversion back to the faith of his childhood, Tissot took three arduous trips to the Holy Land. His goal was to seek out and record authentic details about the people, the landscape, the architecture, and the way of life from the land where Jesus lived, assuming (in many cases erroneously) that much of the way of life of the area that Jesus had experienced had not changed. From his notes and sketches, he did hundred of illustrations. . . .
Yes, we are looking for posts and pieces for our end of Lent, Passiontide, etc. post. We'd love to include this link list! Can you please respond to this comment with a link to the post?
I'm happy you're interested. I have the list in a word doc. I hadn't thought to make it a Substack post until the end of Lent. Could you post it if I email it to you? If not, I could post it, I suppose.
It would be best if you could post it yourself and then e-mail us a link. We don't generally put up posts for contributors -- that could become unwieldly on S+S pretty quickly! We are going to publish our post on March 15, so if you could post and send us a link by around March 10 that would be very helpful. Our e-mail address can be found under "submit posts" here: https://signsandseasons.substack.com/p/contributions
Since I would prefer to post this close to the start of Holy Week as possible, what would be the latest date that would work for you? Would March 13 or 14 be okay? BTW I just sent you links to a three part series about the life of St. Patrick with a cartoon for St. Paddy's day.
I wanted to break my nightly no digital routine to jump back on here and tell y’all that since I downloaded the Liturgical app, I have read the liturgy almost every day since and I’m really loving it. Most days I do the standard reading and if there is reading for a saint or church father I read that too. It’s been so helpful alongside my own scripture reading routine to keep me focused on living faithfully for Christ.
That makes me feel tempted to download the app - after all the apps for school etc., I've started to avoid them...but this sounds like one I may really love! I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Sara recommended it, right? I love all the things I'm learning here!
This is awesome! Cannot wait to see what comes from this project. I am pretty much completely unfamiliar with the liturgical calendar but am really interested, excited to learn, and participate!
Also, is there a good app for the liturgical calendar? I want to go ahead and get myself more acquainted with it.
I use Liturgical! They’ve got a lil widget, with the vestment color/seasonal color for each day. Super simple, not a ton of like… liturgical living details… but just for, like, feast day and season at a glance, it’s super helpful!
Did the readings from Liturgical this morning! I loved it! So, everyone who is actually using and participating in the liturgical calendar today read the exact same thing, correct? I’m clearly new at this haha
I'm not familiar with the Liturgical app (sounds so handy though!!)...but the general idea is that the liturgical calendar - all the feasts and fasts, etc - coordinate with the lectionary, which walks us through the life of Christ every year. I think most liturgical Protestant churches use the Revised Common Lectionary, which is a 3-year cycle of readings...and I believe that the RCL was developed from the Ordo Lectionum Missae (the Catholic Lectionary for Mass)? I'm fairly sure that the RCL and OLM follow a similar pattern, but I'd love to hear input on that.
Anyhoo, anyone participating in liturgical worship centering around a lectionary is essentially reading the same scripture ("pericopes," or sections) as other folks each day. And then the goal is that through this, everyone essentially covers the whole Bible every three years!
So cool! About ten years ago now I went on my first of two mission trips to Haiti. Even though it was less that a three hour flight from Miami, that was the first time I got a sense of the Christian faith and the community of the faithful being global, going far beyond my local context. I knew that in my head already but that was the first time I felt it. Since then I have often reminded myself that I have brothers and sister around the world.
The fact that participating in the liturgical Calendar means I’m reading the same verses, prayers and focusing on the same things about Christ and the church as many brothers and sisters around the world is an amazing. There is a real connectivity there.
Oh wow, that is just SO striking - what an incredible way for that realization to hit home.
SUCH a beautiful summary of the calendar and its global unity - ahhh I can't figure out how to restack your reply, but it's so apt!!
So, I’m not sure about more liturgically-minded Protestants or Orthodox churches, but all the Catholic Churches (Roman, at least, I’m unsure on like the Ruthenian or Maronite or other Catholic branches) use the same readings every day, which are tuned in with the liturgical seasons and the saints calendar. I feel like we need Kristin or James or Hambone to chime in here—I’m not new at this but don’t know much about the lectionary/cycle of readings!
Daniel, I look forward to having your voice join in with us!
I'm so excited to learn alongside you, Daniel! Thanks for your support in this...I hope it'll be fruitful for everyone. :)
Oooo I'm not very savvy with apps, but I'm sure there's something out there! Stay tuned...
I thought I saw a post from Signs & Seasons asking for input for the end of Lent, Passiontide and Easter. But I can't find it. Was it you? Would you be interested in this idea? I put together a linked list of posts I did at Dappled Things with art from James Tissot illustrating the events of Holy Week. I've been writing and researching about Tissot for several years. When his illustrations went on exhibit around the world, people were so overcome by the portrayals of the Gospels, they would fall to their knees and cry and faint. James Jacques Tissot was an immensely popular and fabulously rich French realist painter of worldly scenes and friend to the Impressionists, who decided not to join when invited by Edgar Degas to the first Impressionists’ show. Tissot continued painting in a realist style even after it went out of fashion. After his conversion back to the faith of his childhood, Tissot took three arduous trips to the Holy Land. His goal was to seek out and record authentic details about the people, the landscape, the architecture, and the way of life from the land where Jesus lived, assuming (in many cases erroneously) that much of the way of life of the area that Jesus had experienced had not changed. From his notes and sketches, he did hundred of illustrations. . . .
Hi Roseanne!
Yes, we are looking for posts and pieces for our end of Lent, Passiontide, etc. post. We'd love to include this link list! Can you please respond to this comment with a link to the post?
Thank you so much for following up!
I'm happy you're interested. I have the list in a word doc. I hadn't thought to make it a Substack post until the end of Lent. Could you post it if I email it to you? If not, I could post it, I suppose.
It would be best if you could post it yourself and then e-mail us a link. We don't generally put up posts for contributors -- that could become unwieldly on S+S pretty quickly! We are going to publish our post on March 15, so if you could post and send us a link by around March 10 that would be very helpful. Our e-mail address can be found under "submit posts" here: https://signsandseasons.substack.com/p/contributions
Since I would prefer to post this close to the start of Holy Week as possible, what would be the latest date that would work for you? Would March 13 or 14 be okay? BTW I just sent you links to a three part series about the life of St. Patrick with a cartoon for St. Paddy's day.
The 13th would be fine; the 14th might be too late, depending on what time you end it. Thanks!
I added your name to my subscribers. So when the scheduled post is published at 12:05 PDT, you will see it in your email box.
I'll schedule it for the 13th and let you know when it posts.
I wanted to break my nightly no digital routine to jump back on here and tell y’all that since I downloaded the Liturgical app, I have read the liturgy almost every day since and I’m really loving it. Most days I do the standard reading and if there is reading for a saint or church father I read that too. It’s been so helpful alongside my own scripture reading routine to keep me focused on living faithfully for Christ.
That makes me feel tempted to download the app - after all the apps for school etc., I've started to avoid them...but this sounds like one I may really love! I'm so glad you're enjoying it. Sara recommended it, right? I love all the things I'm learning here!
I too try to avoid apps because I want as little as possible on my phone. But this is worth having. And yes, Sara did recommend it! And me too!!
Just downloaded it! Thank you!!