Journals

This is a brief appreciation of some U P 'High Church' ways, of its 'double' Eucharistic Prayer and of the Ordination of Elders.

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Sets out a 'musical credo': it communicates meaning beyond language, mirroring the essence of God. Performers and listeners must respond actively and intelligently. 'Quality' will convey 'mysticism which complements.. religious experience'. CH3 offers much high quality of both native and international talent. Music must be relevant to contemporary life and can further ecumenism. Our musical integrity must offer to God, the Great Musician, the best of human creativity.

Reviews liturgical developments in the Scottish Episcopal Church. He considers the relationship of Matins and Ante-Communion and what is achieved in the 1970 'Grey Book' entitled The Liturgy. He touches on flexibility and congregational participation to express the priesthood of all believers.

Should liturgical language adapt to secular culture? Is it simple enough to make God more immediate? What of the re-emergence of 'old fashioned religion'? The sociology of religion shows that however 'simplistic' its language, worship needs to be simple in the sense of relating to life where the 'language of the market place' is used.

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The minister of St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall, in the Lee Lecture for 1974, outlines some causes of the crisis as he sees it: the passage from a sacral to a secular universe, the accompanying crisis of faith, and the social changes which absent people from their home at weekends. The author then outlines signs which show the extent of the crisis: the sign of ‘leavetaking’, of prayerlessness in the faithful, of dumbness (failure to articulate the faith), of a ‘geriatric’ society (absence of young people). He disagrees with Charles Davis’s contrast between the ghetto and the desert as a way of tackling the situation (the church reconvening in the desert). Worship must become again a genuine celebration of the life of the Risen Christ. We must have a greater expectancy. We do not try to obtrude worship of our own. We need to acknowledge our life in fellowship together and with Christ, making room for each other. We also must identify with Christ in his service of the world and be ready to meet him in ordinary men and women.