Okay, re: kirkin service

[Chaplain Harris]

Ya know, sometime you get chosen to do something and you look at the order and it boggles the mind when you hear something that you have no idea what it is. We have a point of our service call "the collect". Now, I've got some guesses to it, but I have never heard it before. I know the Scotsman confession, Call to worships, benedictions, blessings, performed many sermons/homily. Just not "The Collect". (Maybe it is something that the churches I've been affiliated with have not used) Any input would be appreciated.

Chaplain Harris

[macwilkin]

Ya know, sometime you get chosen to do something and you look at the order and it boggles the mind when you hear something that you have no idea what it is. We have a point of our service call "the collect". Now, I've got some guesses to it, but I have never heard it before. I know the Scotsman confession, Call to worships, benedictions, blessings, performed many sermons/homily. Just not "The Collect". (Maybe it is something that the churches I've been affiliated with have not used) Any input would be appreciated.

Chaplain Harris

From the Latin word collecta, meaning "assembly." The word is normally used to refer to the prayer near the beginning of the Eucharist that precedes the lessons. The collect was supposedly designed to "collect" the thoughts of the lessons and bind the thoughts together, back in the days when only one lesson and a Gospel were read. A collect is actually any short prayer that contains an invocation, a petition, and a pleading in Christ's Name (in that order).

-- http://www.holycross.net/anonline.htm

From an online dictionary of Episcopal/Anglican terms.

It's the Scots Confession, btw.

Regards,

Todd

[Chaplain Harris]

I should have known it! crap! Also excuse me for my apparent ignorance about the Kirkin Services. As a chaplain I have been very accustomed to change and different types of services. Adaptability is very important.

[Anne Macpherson]

The Kirk'n of the Tartan or blessing of the tartan was invented in America and rather amazes the Scots who come from over the sea and attend one, All clans are called into the service, led by a piper. A prayer is said, then its clan comes forward with their tartan banner, they are blessed and the return to the side of, in our case the music tent, then a Flowers of the Forest rememberance is performed, then a hymn. a small sermon on healing using the idea of the flowers of the forest, another hymn, then a blessing of the general audience and then the last hymn and done. I agree adaptability is very important, especially in these very rough times. May peace be with you, Annie Macpherson

[macwilkin]

The Kirk'n of the Tartan or blessing of the tartan was invented in America and rather amazes the Scots who come from over the sea and attend one, All clans are called into the service, led by a piper. A prayer is said, then its clan comes forward with their tartan banner, they are blessed and the return to the side of, in our case the music tent, then a Flowers of the Forest rememberance is performed, then a hymn. a small sermon on healing using the idea of the flowers of the forest, another hymn, then a blessing of the general audience and then the last hymn and done. I agree adaptability is very important, especially in these very rough times. May peace be with you, Annie Macpherson

You read my article! :mrgreen:

T.