Tue, Sep 02
03 Liturgy, ethics, and telos
Today is a day for zooming out to think about the way our repeated experiences in liturgy help form our ethical community and help us "orient" towards our world.
Watch This
Read This
- Susan E. Gillingham, Psalms through the Centuries, Blackwell Bible Commentaries (Malden (Mass.): Wiley-Blackwell, 2012), 40-44, 51-55.
- Nathan D. Mitchell, “Useless Prayer,” in Christians at Prayer, ed. John Gallen, Liturgical Studies (Notre Dame, Ind.) (Notre Dame, Ind.: University of Notre Dame Press, 1977), 1–25.
Liturgy
No liturgy assignments today.
Journal Exercise
- Psalm assignment (choose an instrument/sound)
- Fill out the group building survey.
Music Assignment
Every day from 8/29 to 9/5:
Today's Class Activities
Class plan (may be adjusted):
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10 minute lecture about the tension between liturgy as formation and liturgy as end
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20 minute small group work on psalm assignment (parts of a lament and further work on parallelism)
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10 minute integration exercise using Google forms responses
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35 minute music Chant + Psalm Tones (solesmes, rhythm of speech)