that I can be really, really dense. Here we've had the Lutheran Service Builder for months and months. And we pray Compline each Wednesday, and nothing changes in it, the same week after week. But to use it in LSB we're constantly paging this way and that and I have to interrupt the service to call out Psalm numbers, Hymn number, page number and so on. Hello? Why on earth didn't I print out a sufficient number of copies for our Wednesday Compline with everything printed out in order ages ago? I don't know why. But I know I came home tonight and in about 15 minutes whipped up the service and printed it out. Perfect. Now we can really concentrate on God and our prayer and not worry one bit about where we're supposed to turn next in the book!!!
And despite the paging, it was wonderful to pray Compline tonight. Like the return of an old and treasured friend.
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YOu mean after praying the same thing over and over you and your congregation don't have it memorized yet? Sheesh! j/k
Smarty-pants. Actually, we were praying it from Brotherhood Prayer Book and had it just about memorized from that when we switched to LSB (when our parish adopted that) and began to work on learning slightly new words, new psalm tones, and a slightly different ordo. I think if you give us a year or two more with LSB, we WILL have it memorized. I notice that very few people follow along in the LSB for Divine Service 3. They know and sing their responses and canticles all from memory. And they sing incorrectly too! They always sing "and with your (not thy) spirit" - regardless of what the book says!
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