Read Pr. Beane on the AC. Good. For us, Evening Prayer is 30 minutes, prefaced and followed by other things, so the comments on the anniversary were necessarily shorter.
A question: Pr. Beane quotes the AC in the part which says that the Mass is retained among us. Since Luther removed the ceremonies which referred to a repeated "sacrifice", why did the individual (later identified as Anglican) castigate Pr. Beane for "the Sacrifice of the Mass"?
I've become accustomed to "Mass" as a shorthand for the communion service, but neither in speech or in the BOC have I known of a Lutheran "Sacrifice of the Mass".
[Also, otherwise sensible people get very uptight about the use of the word "Mass" at all. Given instruction as to its meaning and its place in the Confessions, why?]
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Read Pr. Beane on the AC. Good. For us, Evening Prayer is 30 minutes, prefaced and followed by other things, so the comments on the anniversary were necessarily shorter.
A question:
Pr. Beane quotes the AC in the part which says that the Mass is retained among us.
Since Luther removed the ceremonies which referred to a repeated "sacrifice", why did the individual (later identified as Anglican) castigate Pr. Beane for "the Sacrifice of the Mass"?
I've become accustomed to "Mass" as a shorthand for the communion service, but neither in speech or in the BOC have I known of a Lutheran "Sacrifice of the Mass".
[Also, otherwise sensible people get very uptight about the use of the word "Mass" at all. Given instruction as to its meaning and its place in the Confessions, why?]
Helen
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