Our Big Fat Anglo-Catholic Wedding: Liturgy:What is liturgy?
Well, its important that I admit right away I don’t really know the answer. So what I am about to do is intended to do two things. First, its intended to prepare you for what might be an unusual experience when you arrive at our wedding. We hope it will also be an enjoyable cultural experience or maybe a reconnection with something you are already familiar with. My hope is to do a little series that walks you through what will happen at the wedding. Now if you are an experienced Anglo or Roman Catholic your job now is to comment and correct. If you aren’t then you should ask questions. I feel a little like Robert DiNiro in the Untouchables. Let’s talk about baseball. Liturgy comes from a Greek word meaning public duty. What does that have to do with baseball and church? Can you even remember the first time you went to a baseball game? I don’t. But it was early enough that the rhythms of the game are familiar. I know what “to do” at a baseball game. You find your seat. You stand for the
