All Things Rite & Musical
55 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 months ago - ★★★★★ - 22 ratingsliturgy and music from an Episcopal/Anglican perspective
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2023 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Preview
December 15, 2023 15:41David previews the music at the 2023 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge. Read more »
063 Special groups and spaces
October 09, 2023 14:15Our discussion of Elements of Rite by Aidan Kavanagh continues: special groups and sacred space. Read more »
062 Better Ingredients, Better Liturgy
September 05, 2023 15:00We begin our Elements of Rite series! A multi-part discussion of the book by Aidan Kavanagh. Read more »
Elements of Rite
August 21, 2023 17:21A new series begins! Follow along, if you wish, with your own copy of Elements of Rite by Aidan Kavanagh. Read more »
2022 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Preview
December 07, 2022 11:30David previews the music at the 2022 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge. Read more »
061 General Confusion! #GC80
June 17, 2022 10:30A special UNEDITED episode all about liturgy issues presented to the 80th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. Read more »
060 Remember that you are dust
March 22, 2022 14:11After a Covid-induced hiatus, we return with a conversation about Ash Wednesday: how important is it to offer this liturgy? Should Eucharist automatically be included? Read more »
059 Omicron all ye faithful
December 23, 2021 11:30We're gonna talk about Christmas carols! (But we chat about the Omicron weirdness first.) Read more »
2021 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Preview
November 26, 2021 11:30David previews the music at the 2021 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge Read more »
058 Surges of Asperges
October 26, 2021 10:30Ahead of All Saints' Day, the conversation turns to the Renewal of Baptismal Vows and the sprinkling of the people with holy water (also known as the Asperges). Read more »
057 A late-stage (?) pandemic chat
September 21, 2021 10:30A conversation recorded in July 2021 about the pandemic, patriotism, and congregational song. Read more »
056 An Eastertide Wickipedia
April 28, 2021 10:30This whole episode is about candles in the Easter season! And that's because we flame to please. In this matchless episode, we're talking about the new fire, the Paschal Candle (and where its placed in Eastertide), the Easter Vigil, and the whole ball of wax. Read more »
Maundy Thursday & Good Friday (encores)
March 30, 2021 10:30A rebroadcast of our Maundy Thursday and Good Friday episodes, which were both part of our Holy Week series. Read more »
Rectory Edition: A Conversation with the Rev. Grey Maggiano
March 09, 2021 11:30Ian sits down with the Rev. Grey Maggiano to talk about liturgy during the pandemic. Read more »
018 Palm Sunday (encore)
February 27, 2021 16:22We revisit our Palm Sunday episode, the first episode in our Holy Week series. Read more »
055 The 2020 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols in Review
January 01, 2021 06:01David meets up with Jessica Nelson and Michael Smith to talk about this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College. Read more »
Another Change to This Year's Service at King's
December 19, 2020 11:30The service will not be held Christmas Eve, but a contingency recording made of this year’s service will be used. Read more »
2020 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Preview
December 05, 2020 11:33David previews the music at this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College, Cambridge Read more »
054 Pandemic Perspectives: Micah Walter
September 02, 2020 14:22In the first of a series of conversations about what we are doing with liturgy and music in the midst of this pandemic, we talk to Micah Walter, a parishioner at Grace Episcopal Church, Amherst, Mass. Read more »
053 Screaming inside our hearts
July 14, 2020 10:30Everything is still different. In this episode, we invite you into some conversation about what it is that we are all doing with liturgy and music during this pandemic. We want to hear from you in connection with this episode. You can find us on Facebook and Twitter. You can email us at [email protected] Read more »
Rectory Edition: a conversation with the Rev. Keith Voets
May 28, 2020 15:04David sits down with the Rev. Keith Voets to talk about Ascension Day and Ascensiontide.Read more »
052 Principal Feast meets principled fast
May 21, 2020 10:30Ian has some personal news. When do you extinguish the Paschal Candle? And more on worship during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
051 After Holy Week 2020
April 14, 2020 10:30We've just been through a Holy Week like no other. David and Ian take stock. Read more »
050 The Advent of "Coronatide"
March 24, 2020 21:38With the COVID-19 pandemic, Episcopal and Anglican churches around the world are faced with a new reality: the inability to meet together for worship. David and Ian share some initial thoughts, reflections, and their experiences so far. This episode was recorded on the Fourth Sunday in Lent, March 22, 2020. Read more »
Worship and the Coronavirus
March 12, 2020 02:26In the last two weeks, the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic is changing the way Episcopal churches worship. The common cup, the Peace, coffee hour, baptismal fonts, the offering plates, etc. Read more »
049 Prayer Book Usability
March 02, 2020 20:05Taking a look at the nitty-gritty of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. What's not laid out well? What's unclear? Getting beyond the idea of "technical fixes" to real revision. Read more »
048 Hymns we would be alway fixing
January 28, 2020 15:45An in-depth conversation about the Hymnal 1982, mistakes and all. We also chat about psalms. Read more »
047 Christmastide Special: Favorite Christmas Hymns
January 03, 2020 22:23David and Ian talk about their favorite Christmas hymns. Read more »
046 Lo, we come with pods descending
December 11, 2019 11:30Advent is back! And so are all of your favorite Advent hymns. Read more »
2019 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Preview
December 02, 2019 21:11David reveals the music list for this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge. Read more »
045 Podtronal Feasts
September 25, 2019 10:30When do parishes celebrate their patronal feast or feast of title? Does it matter? And what about transferring other feasts to Sunday during the year? Read more »
Customary Edition: a conversation with Porter C. Taylor
September 17, 2019 10:30Porter C. Taylor is the editor of a new volume of essays in memory of Fr. Alexander Schmemann: We Give Our Thanks Unto Thee. Read more »
044 The Feast of the Memorialization: Revisiting BCP Revision
July 23, 2019 10:30It's been a year since resolution A068 passed at General Convention. Where are we with Prayer Book revision now? Read more »
042 Ascension Day
May 30, 2019 10:30Happy Ascension Day! We talk about our new summer book club, the names of days given on page 31 of the Prayer Book, Bishop Jack Spong, Epiphany, Christ the King, and... wait, was there something else? Oh, right. Ascension Day. Read more »
041 An Easter Project for 2020
May 16, 2019 10:30David and Ian fill the listeners in about their idea for a special project for Easter 2020. They need your help! Read more »
040 Tenebrae (Holy Week Series No. 5)
April 10, 2019 10:30Another installment in our Holy Week Series, this episode discusses the Office of Tenebrae as found in the Book of Occasional Services. Read more »
039 An Emergency Palm Sunday Episode
April 08, 2019 05:01We critique the rapidly-growing movement of moving the Passion Gospel to the end of the Palm Sunday liturgy in the Episcopal Church. Read more »
038 Lenten Invitations and Salutations
March 26, 2019 16:48How do we begin Lent if our congregations are largely absent from Ash Wednesday? Also, a big-picture discussion on expansive language. Read more »
037 An Organist in a Box?
March 12, 2019 10:30David and Ian talk about a recent article ("The Future of the Organ for Church Worship") from the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas. Read more »
036 A Season of Pod-itence and Fasting
February 26, 2019 11:30Don't look now, but it's almost Lent again. Don't worry. We're on it. Read more »
035 Expansive Language Eucharistic Prayers
February 12, 2019 11:30Ian encounters the Expansive Language Prayers for the first time at the Forma Conference. We discuss inclusivity in music, and formation in/through the liturgy. Read more »
Top Five Episodes of 2018
February 05, 2019 11:30You'll never guess what came in at number one. Okay, actually you probably will. Read more »
034 This is a Lessons and Carols podcast now
January 29, 2019 11:30Sorry not sorry. Also: Epiphany, and over stoles! Read more »
033 Lessons and Carols
January 15, 2019 11:30A conversation about Christmas Lessons and Carols after the 100th anniversary of this service being sung at King's College, Cambridge. Read more »
Exclusive: 2018 Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols Music List
November 24, 2018 11:30Curious to know what music will be sung at this year's Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College, Cambridge? We have the music list now. An All Things Rite & Musical exclusive! Read more »
032 An All Saints'/All Souls'/Allhallowtide redux
November 06, 2018 11:30We talk (again) about All Saints', All Souls', and, in the process discover that they are related to pretty much everything else, so we talk about that too. Read more »
030 Let's get physical
October 02, 2018 10:47We consider the physical aspects of the liturgy: processions, the sign of the cross, etc. Read more »