#liturgy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #liturgy, aggregated by home.social.
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https://theconversation.com/why-pope-leo-has-excommunicated-a-group-of-conservative-catholics-286775. Is this issue just about the use of #Latin in the #Catholic #liturgy? Some of the people who were present at the consecration of the SSPX bishops were so #fascist, they made Giorgia #Meloni look like a wet #liberal!
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https://shj.org/new-siddur-for-humanistic-judaism/
Very excited that I recently got my copy of this siddur. My friend Martin Di Maggio has done an incredible job with it.
I hope to share more reflections on it in the coming days as I have the chance to dive deep into it, but I will say for now three things:
1. The book itself is not only easy to read, but it is beautiful. I really like how the pages are laid out.
2. Many of the non-theistic liturgical selections are crafted in such a way that they work with the traditional melodies we know.
3. There is a good bit of #Sephardic influence in this siddur, which is a welcome change. -
https://shj.org/new-siddur-for-humanistic-judaism/
Very excited that I recently got my copy of this siddur. My friend Martin Di Maggio has done an incredible job with it.
I hope to share more reflections on it in the coming days as I have the chance to dive deep into it, but I will say for now three things:
1. The book itself is not only easy to read, but it is beautiful. I really like how the pages are laid out.
2. Many of the non-theistic liturgical selections are crafted in such a way that they work with the traditional melodies we know.
3. There is a good bit of #Sephardic influence in this siddur, which is a welcome change. -
The person reading Acts this morning pronounced Ananias as "Anus-sy".
(I'm no expert on 1st century Palestinian names but I have always pronounced it "Anna-NI-as")
And honestly it made my morning.
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My pastor surmised that I was likely the only lector wearing a rose jacket on Gaudete Sunday in any Holy Cross parish in the US. (Today is one of two days in the Church that rose vestments are worn.)
https://kraft.blog/photo/rose/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Rose
My pastor surmised that I was likely the only lector wearing a rose jacket on Gaudete Sunday in any Holy Cross parish in the US. (Today is one of two days in the Church that rose vestments are worn.)
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Beyond Thoughts and Prayers: The Rituals of Freedom – Straight White American Jesus
‘Brad welcomes Liz Theoharis and Charon Hribar, editors of We Pray Freedom: Liturgies and Rituals from The Freedom Church of the Poor.’
#LizTheoharis #CharonHribar #Liturgy #Liturgies
https://www.straightwhiteamericanjesus.com/episodes/beyond-thoughts-and-prayers-the-rituals-of-freedom/ -
After many weeks (has it been months?) I have a new entry on the blog! This one is in praise of the Book of Common Prayer.
#Episcopal #Anglican #Christianity #Spirituality #Theology #Liturgy #Bible
https://catecheticconverter.com/in-praise-of-the-book-of-common-prayer
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Serving alongside a guest priest, particularly one whose strong point isn’t liturgizing, can be exhausting! (Which is to say, he needed to be coached through the Liturgy.)
After coffee hour, I came home and fell into the embrace of a Post-Liturgical Nap. I just awoke a few minutes ago, at 4:30 pm.
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I wrote a (short) thing! Blog post on the surprising absence of smell from the multisensory details covered in memorial endowments in early modern Bregenz
https://silencesandsounds.blogspot.com/
#smell #multisensory #liturgy #memorial #blog #research #histodon #15thc #16thc
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Agriculture – The Spiritual Sound Review
By Owlswald
Black metal is rooted in extremity—a core toolkit of visual aesthetics, speed, power and atmosphere that naturally imbues it with an inherent spiritual essence. But that essence often collapses into a monochromatic buzz of tremolo and constant tempos. Los Angeles-based quartet Agriculture challenges this expectation with their second LP, The Spiritual Sound, moving beyond the solely dark and brutal in search of presence and illumination. Coming off their potent self-titled debut—a record that landed on Cherd’s Top 10(ish) records of 2023—and 2024’s Living is Easy EP, The Spiritual Sound is a statement of pure honesty and fearless experimentation. The record shatters typical black metal conventions, throwing out ritualistic fanfare for a vast array of influences including death metal, noise, math rock, folk, country, and punk. Self-dubbed as “ecstatic black metal,” the foursome demands you check all preconceived notions at the door as they reframe extreme in their own unique and expansive way.
While Agriculture hasn’t completely turned their backs on their blackened roots, The Spiritual Sound uses them as a launchpad to branch out into realms occupied by groups like Liturgy and labelmates Chat Pile. The frenzied, tremolotic dissonance of guitarists Dan Meyer and Richard Chowenhill still power tracks like “Serenity,” “Flea,” and “Micah (5.15am),” underpinning Leah Levinson’s manic vocals and Kern Haug’s unhinged drumming. Now, however, this approach serves as a stepping stone to more expansive horizons, as Agriculture’s originality has fully blossomed. The record’s forty-four minutes are a playful, unpredictable and complex patchwork of styles: math rock chaos (“My Garden”), sludgy down-picked riffs (“The Weight”), soothing Slowdivey shoegaze harmonies (“Flea,” “Dan’s Love Song”), punky gallops (“Micah (5.15am))” and delicate, folky passages (“The Reply,” “Hallelujah”). This diverse blend transmits an authentic ethos centered on camaraderie, collective struggle, and catharsis, grounded in themes from queer history and AIDS-era literature to historical collapse and Zen Buddhism. As unconventional as it might be, The Spiritual Sound’s mission is a clear success: to craft unique, empowering music that fosters community without pretense.
Agriculture’s experimentation largely shines through Meyer and Chowenhill’s impressive and inventive shredding. The duo injects The Spiritual Sound with tons of flashy guitar work through a hodgepodge of bends, squeals, trills, and high-pitched pick taps around more conventional bouts of thrashy riffing and smothering tremolos to create a vibrant spectrum of textures. The captivating leads in tracks like “The Weight,” “My Garden” and “Bodhidharma”—the latter of which contains one of the best solos I’ve heard in a long time—take influence from Tom Morello’s (Rage Against the Machine) boundary-pushing designs or Larry LaLonde’s (Primus) accented jams, while “Flea’s” solo elicits the expressiveness of classic rock. Song o’ the Year candidate “My Garden” explodes into a whirling dervish of frantic math fretwork before dropping into one of the most crushing riffs I’ve heard all year. It then transitions into a soothing interlude for a brief moment before bludgeoning you once more with heaviness and rapid-fire high tremolo runs. This constant shift between doom- and groove-laden weight, jarring dissonance, and soothing ethereal passages is what gives The Spiritual Sound its complex structure and feeds its absorbing, often unpredictable journey.
The Spiritual Sound’s novelty is equally defined by Levinson and Meyer’s vocal performances. Levinson shifts between extreme intensity and introspective subtlety, delivering ear-piercing shrieking rasps balanced by softer, more experimental elements like the poetic, spoken word found in “Bodhidharma” or the conversational tone of “Flea.” The strategic use of soothing clean vocals and Meyer’s beautiful harmonies in songs like “The Reply,” “Hallelujah,” or “Dan’s Love Song” also provides essential emotional contrast, amplifying the impact of the record’s heavier tracks and buttressing Agriculture’s originality. The coarse production—courtesy of Chowenhill—is compressed and somewhat lo-fi but allows the quartet’s unbridled sound to rush through the speakers with both raw aggression and clarity.
Agriculture may have stumbled into black metal during their formation, but the genre—and The Spiritual Sound—is all the better for it. Though their ambitious scope results in some unevenness (“Flea” and “Serenity” rely on tropey structures and interlude “The Spiritual Sound” is confusingly split into its own track), Agriculture is unafraid to walk its own path, successfully blending various styles into a great record authentically rooted in the power, community and pure enjoyment of extreme music. Black metal purists should look elsewhere—however, those who approach The Spiritual Sound without pretense will find a unique, genre-defying experience that only gets better with every play.
Rating: Great!
DR: 6 | Format Reviewed: 320 kb/s mp3
Label: The Flenser
Websites: agriculturemusic.bandcamp.com/music | agriculturemusic.com | facebook.com/agriculturemusic
Releases Worldwide: October 3rd, 2025#2025 #40 #Agriculture #AlternativeMetal #AmericanMetal #BlackMetal #ChatPile #ExperimentalMetal #Liturgy #Oct25 #Primus #RageAgainstTheMachine #Review #Reviews #Slowdive #TheFlenser #TheSpiritualSound
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What one line in the Yom Kippur liturgy teaches us about transforming society
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.lifeisasacredtext.com/transgressors/
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The collect for today’s feast of St. Teresa (Mother Teresa), translation approved a few months ago:
O God, who called the Virgin Saint Teresa
to respond to the love of your Son
thirsting on the Cross
with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor,
grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession,
to minister to Christ in our suffering brothers
and sisters.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the
Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. -
The collect for today’s feast of St. Teresa (Mother Teresa), translation approved a few months ago:
O God, who called the Virgin Saint Teresa
to respond to the love of your Son
thirsting on the Cross
with outstanding charity to the poorest of the poor,
grant us, we beseech you, by her intercession,
to minister to Christ in our suffering brothers
and sisters.
Who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the
Holy Spirit,
God, for ever and ever. -
CW: Christian prayer-related
The season of Creation gets underway today (going on till 4 October). If you find liturgical frameworks for daily prayer helpful (or would like to investigate that) head over to https://ourcommonprayer.edublogs.org/creationtide/
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“…the inner λειτουργία of the Church’s self-offering is expressed in fixed forms so that it may represent not the topical needs and moods and feelings of men, but the changeless and enduring facts about Christ’s work for men….”
- Michael Ramsey, “The Gospel and rhe Catholic Church,” 93-94.
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Compline
Since the early days of the Church, there has been a tradition of praying the psalms throughout the day, which evolved to the current Liturgy of the Hours. The tradition has mostly centered over the centuries in monastic communities, particularly in those that follow the Rule of St. Benedict. Christian monasticism existed for generations before St. Benedict was born near 480 in Italy, primarily in the Eastern tradition (pre-Schism, of course), though his Rule and the monastery he founded earned him the title of Father of Western Monasticism. While he was aware of other Rules, that is, guides for monks to follow in living a monastic life, he sought to write down his observations. Mostly expanding from the Rule of the Master, which was a pretty harsh rule written a couple of decades before Benedict's. In his Rule, Benedict sought to find a happy ground between providing structure and flexibility. For Benedict, he saw the role of the monk is to do two things: work and pray. Or phrased differently, work and work. He saw the regular cycle of praying the psalms, along with the Mass and other forms of prayer that make up the monk's life as the Work of God or Opus Dei (the actual Latin translation of the phrase, not the relatively new group within the church that spun up all of those conspiracy theories). I've been attracted to monastic ideas for as long as I've been religious for a whole host of reasons; one of the major reasons being the Liturgy of the Hours. […]
