[Magdalen] Coffee Anyone?

[Scott Knitter]

Indeed, the Sunday service that Bach knew went from 7 a.m. to past
noon, including a one-hour sermon, a whole cantata, lotsa long hymns
infused with organ improvisation, other choral works, and so on. And,
oh, Communion. Then lunch and back for early-afternoon Vespers.

On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 4:29 PM, Lesley de Voil <lesleymdv at gmail.com> wrote:
> But David, I thought that a multisectional service that essentially
> lasted all Sunday morning was the ne plus ultra of Lutheran worship,
> historically speaking, anyway. Where not every person attended every
> part of the proceedings. Maybe Bach's Coffee Cantata was originally
> intended to slot into this culture!
> Regards
> Lesley de Voil
>
> On 7/31/15, Scott Knitter <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 30, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Cantor03--- via Magdalen
>> <magdalen at herberthouse.org> wrote:
>>> I am not enamored by what we call in the USA "Evangelicals".
>>
>> Some time ago I read the book by Roger Steer titled Church on Fire:
>> The Story of Anglican Evangelicals. I could almost be one of those if
>> they were as described in the book: Whitefield, Simeon, and that
>> group. I don't think we have any of those in the USA church.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Scott R. Knitter
>> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>>



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Scott R. Knitter
Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA