I was just talking to my roomie last night as we took down our (well her) Christmas decorations. I was bummed, "Bye, bye magic, hello dreary winter."
I held on to my eeyore attitude till this morning when I happened to be looking up the liturgical seasons and realized that this year Easter is early. I'm relatively new to this whole liturgical season thing. In the evangelical circles I came from you really just celebrate Easter day, but in the Anglican and of course Catholic traditions. You celebrate the entire season of Lent, starting with Ash Wednesday through to Holy week and ending with Easter. It's a wonderful time of reflection and preparation. I enjoy it more than Advent and Christmas. It's a journey, more than momentary celebrations. I love journeys, which must be the appeal.
I'm so excited. It all begins in only two weeks! Yes, I'm odd that these things make me so happy, but I think most of you reading this are odd in this way too ; )
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hee hee! yes, I suppose so. :)
It's been interesting for me, too, to discover the church's liturgical year. I definitely like the way both Christmas and Easter become whole "seasons", instead of a one-time celebration. I guess most churches do that some with Christmas, anyway, but certainly not with Easter. There's something about the liturgy, though, that sometimes drives me nuts. At least, the liturgy we're using, which we may try to change soon. I feel like there is very little room for individual expression, (it IS a corporate worship experience, I understand, but I believe that God gifts individuals to build up His church, and so those gifted individuals need to be able to do their job) and music is given an extremely minimal role. For someone who loves music and singing, this is extremely frustrating. ;)
But maybe not all liturgical churches are this way...
Yes, there is a blance in there somewhere. Luckily I'm in a church that really likes music. We sing through out the whole service. We sing 12-13 songs each service. Wow that's a lot I'd never counted it. I'd be interested in seeing the liturgy of your service. (if it were in English)I'll email you our's just for comparisons sake. Of course our's is always a communion service. I'm sad that there is not more music for you. I often think how lovely it would be if you were here playing your violin for us ; )
In our liturgy, there's a place for 3 songs. At the beginning, then before and after the message. Plus the sung responses, of course, but since almost no one in our church sings, it often ends up sounding pretty dismal.
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