Seven whole days

My move and transition continue to use most of my time, so I continue to neglect 7WD. Sorry about that. Anyway, this post is an effort to address my writing assignment. I have mentioned — several times — my aversion to Holy Women, Holy Men. For those of you who don’t pay attention to such things, it’s a revised list of saintly commemorations for the Episcopal Church. If you didn’t know that, you’ll probably want to move right along.

To recap, General Convention 2006 took action asking for some revisions to our sanctoral kalendar. The Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music did its thing over the triennium, arriving at GC 2009 with a number of things, including HWHM. This expanded our list of commemorations from a lot to a bazillion. (Hey, I could put numbers in here, but I’m trying to catch up on my backlog, hence the unsubstantiated rant.)

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Well, dear reader, I am once again forced to apologize for neglecting 7WD for several weeks. Amid job transition (and related chaos), some travel, and sundry obligations, I haven’t managed to make time for blogging. But now I’m at least running in front of the avalanche of transition, so I can squeeze in a few blog posts as long as I stay ahead of the proverbial snow. (I am using this metaphor to cool off 7WD readers who are sweltering in summer unpleasantness right now.)

Anyway, a colleague of mine has been sending me emails with various requests for things here on 7WD. It seemed like a pretty good place to begun, so I’ll start with this list and intersperse it with things in my (now massive) blog hopper. I welcome your requests — including your requests for things on this list you’d like to see first or things which bore you that you’d rather not read.

• Ordination vs. Consecration– the confusion over what, exactly, it is that we do to bishops. Straighten the crazy people out and make them use their language more carefully, please.
• Holy Week Thoughts– a survey of the liturgies of holy week and what you learned (aka– people shouldn’t mess with the prayer book especially on high holy days, the beauty of these liturgies speaks for itself.)
• Mandatory Reporting– the implications of the new Title IV for all clergy both in our exercise of ministry and our “reporting” of violations (with a handy form so that we can fulfill our canonical obligations, please!)
• Don’t make sh*t up– the prayer book has a lot of room for innovation/creativity. You don’t have to make sh*t up where it’s not allowed. Only people who have a serious, solid understanding of the PB should play with new liturgies. This could be coupled with your realization at GoL of the generational gap in this respect. Read more »