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Thread: Shrinking your Office?
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Oblatus
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Our parish has public Morning Prayer and Evening Prayer every day, using our 1979 BCP. On Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Holy Saturday, we have often observed the tradition (not mentioned in the BCP itself) of stripping down the Offices to a bare minimum: no preces/responses, no hymn or Phos hilaron; just the Lord's Prayer and collect to conclude.
I'm the officiant this evening, when EP will be done normally, and may be the officiant tomorrow (Maundy Thursday). I'd like to have the minimized office tomorrow and without leaflets if possible. I may preface the rite with a one- or two-sentence explanation and then sit down for some silence before beginning. (I'm thinking I may need to mention a page number or two as we go.) Do others do something similar? We've used a half-sheet leaflet before, which may eliminate page announcements.
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dj_ordinaire
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I've been 'stripping' my personal Offices, yes. No preces, no Gloria except after the Gospel canticle. Taking particular care to make time for silence is also powerful for me.
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Adam.
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There aren't really many options to the RC Office. At least, there aren't for the 'libretto,' music and choreography is a different story!
I guess we're stripping down in our house, by not celebrating them at all, but that's because we are celebrating them in the basilica, which normally only has Sunday Vespers. I'm not really involved in that, but will just show up and occupy in a pew, so I'll have to report on how it's done.
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venbede
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C of E Daily Prayer allows for such stripping down - no intro, gloria etc.
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Man was made for joy and woe;
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