I didn’t run this morning, or walk; it was already 20° when I was up and moving, and I decline to exercise an aging body in that heat. I did have my coffee and a cooked breakfast, then Morning Prayer, back home for some reading of 17th-century biblical hermeneutics, then back to church for a staff meeting, now back at home. I have to write one sermon for Sunday, and the Faith Forum on ‘Symbolism in the Liturgy’. I’m not entirely sure I believe in symbolism any more, but I’ll do my best to offer the congregations something plausible and perhaps even illuminating. So top jobs are writing things for Sunday, and looking ahead to other parish-related errands for the next couple of weeks while Jen the Rector is on holiday.
Would love to hear your presentation on Symbolism in the Liturgy–however much of a thorny idea that is. Will it be available anywhere, in any format?
I’ll try to assemble notes. Right now I’m having to swallow my impulse to launch a full on discourse on ‘What is a symbol?’ in order to cover even a little bit about the liturgy.