Placid Murray offers a reflection on the significance of the Collects and Postcommunions in the Roman Missal (1970). This Missal is the second Missal promulgated by the Roman Catholic Church, with the first being that of 1570, following the Council of Trent. Murray suggests that the new Missal differs in character from that of 1570… Read More
In a sermon preached on the 350th Anniversary of the dedication of Greyfriars Kirk, Gordon Donaldson reflects on the state of worship in Scotland in 1620. He contends that the Scotland of this time ‘was a light-hearted, cheerful, cultured and beauty-loving place’. He recalls the continuing significance of the Book of Common Order within Scottish… Read More
Eve Braniste offers a reflection on the place of the Orthodox Church in the world from a Roumanian Orthodox perspective. The pressure to modernise is one faced by all churches, including the Orthodox Church. Braniste notes: 1) that within the Orthodox tradition ‘the liturgy constitutes the centre and foundation of religious life’ 2) the Orthodox… Read More
Vincent Ryan expounds the content of the Ordo Baptismi Parvulorum (1969)/The Rite of Baptism for Children (1970) developed as a consequence of the Vatican II reforms as evidenced in the Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy (1963). Ryan suggests that the Order is characterised by: 1) ‘greater community participation’ 2) a fuller provision for the Word… Read More
Stewart Todd seeks to recover a proper understanding of eucharistia, by which he refers to the Great Prayer at the Communion Service. Todd affirms that the expression ‘“breaking of bread” may be [regarded as] the oldest designation of Christian worship’, with this presupposing and including eucharistia. However, Todd notes that by the early second century… Read More
C G Inglis provides a brief illustrated description of St Bride’s Parish Church, Partick, Glasgow, along with the Order of Service and the Order of Holy Communion used therein.
James Francis compares the Last Supper with the Passover Haggadah through: 1) an outline of the Seder service as found in the Mishnah; Pesahim 10 (c.200 A.D.) 2) a comparison of the Seder and the Lord’s Supper 3) a survey of ‘”extra Supper” Passover motifs’, and 4) the relation of the Lord’s Supper to the… Read More
John A Lamb offers a review of liturgical publications which are ecumenical in character.
St Bride’s Church, Partick Craigsbank Church, Corstorphine
