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[Ann Markle]

Not to mention that canticles and psalms are also scripture. I like a
"scripture-heavy" office, myself. It's a big part of our heritage.

Ann

The Rev. Ann Markle
Buffalo, NY
ann.markle at aya.yale.edu
On Jun 7, 2015 11:09 PM, "Scott Knitter" <scottknitter at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to be reading so many things. Some day. Right now I'm in fact
> reading contract documents for a large HP deal. Next deadline is
> tomorrow. Monday deadlines mean working weekends. I had to bolt out
> the door of church after subdeaconing our really wonderful Corpus
> Christi Mass and Benediction, staying only to sing happy birthday to
> our 70-year-old head MC.
>
> Hope soon to finish Martin Thornton's Prayer: A New Encounter, which
> is dense and wonderful except his gripes about the Daily Office being
> in need of a restructuring to take out the Biblical readings and put
> them in a separate Office of Readings. I investigated this, and such
> an Office of Readings would, in his opinion, be done twice a day, and
> in my opinion amount to...drum roll, please...Daily Morning and
> Evening Prayer. He advocated another office of praise that would be
> psalms and canticles and would be memorized and done from one to seven
> times a day.
>
> I think the Office as we have it now is fine; it doesn't bother me
> that the readings are there; juxtaposing readings with psalms,
> canticles, and prayers cross-fertilizes the various genres and
> enriches the liturgy. So he loses me on the Office bits, but his
> outworking of the concepts of prayer, Trinity, Being, and so on is
> fascinating. Heavily based (he admits) on John Macquarrie's magnum
> opus of theology tinged with philosophy.
>
> --
> Scott R. Knitter
> Edgewater, Chicago, Illinois USA
>