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		<title>2011 in review</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/31/2011-in-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:11:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This was kind of fun &#8230; I noticed that we recently hit the 100,000 mark for our number of visits.  I&#8217;m thankful that this project is filling a need, and hope we can continue to improve its content! **** The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here&#8217;s an excerpt: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=831&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Feast of the Holy Innocents</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/28/feast-of-the-holy-innocents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robinphillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the Feast of the Holy Innocents, a day that Christians have historically set aside for remembering the baby boys of Bethlehem that Herod cruelly slaughtered (Matthew 2:16-18). Also called Childermas, the Feast was instituted between 400 and 500 AD by the Latin-speaking church and intentionally placed within the octave of Christmas to emphasize [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=820&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>St. John&#8217;s Day (the Apostle)</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/st-johns-day-the-apostle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, the Western church celebrates the memory of St. John the Evangelist.  There are a lot of traditions mixed with this holiday, which I&#8217;m not comfortable with.  Part of the problem with paying attention to the church year is knowing how to sift through the accretions of tradition and culture.  But, we can certainly see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=811&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Christmas in the Trenches</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/26/christmas-in-the-trenches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is St. Stephen&#8217;s Day, a fact most Reformed folks would be blissfully ignorant of.  As I&#8217;ve become more aware of the traditional pattern of the church year, I&#8217;ve been musing on the practical wisdom of following the liturgical year.  First, some background.  St. Stephen&#8217;s Day commemorates (quite obviously) Stephen, the first martyr of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=804&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Times and Seasons (Part 2)</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/sacred-times-and-seasons-part-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robinphillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Preach the gospel at all times and, if necessary, use words.” St. Francis In an article for the November/December edition of Touchstone, titled ‘The Devil’s Calendar, Father Scott Wilson talked about the stealthy theft of Christian holy days. Father Scot lamented that “one by one, the Church’s holy days have been overshadowed by secularizing forces, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=754&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sacred Times and Seasons (Part 1)</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/19/sacred-times-and-seasons-part-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Dec 2011 18:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>robinphillips</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Three times in the year you shall keep a feast to me.” Exodus 13:14 This year Christmas Day happens to fall on a Sunday. That means that many American Protestants will do something they are not used to doing: they will attend church on Christmas Day. Do Church and Christmas Day go Together? When my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=747&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Advent Devotional</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/16/advent-devotional/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 15:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is a theologically-rich Advent devotional from the good folks at Christ the King Presbyterian Church (Raleigh, NC).<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=745&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Toby Sumpter on Worship, Training, Life, and Warfare</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/toby-sumpter-on-worship-training-life-and-warfare/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:44:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pastor Toby Sumpter on &#8220;How Worship Trains Us for War &#38; Life&#8221;&#8211;good thoughts on the importance of worship, as well as the power of corporate, liturgical worship.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=736&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bruce Benedict on the Song of Simeon</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/12/07/bruce-benedict-on-the-song-of-simeon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Dec 2011 19:40:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bruce Benedict has some good thoughts (and examples) of the &#8220;Nunc Dimittis&#8221;or &#8220;Song of Simeon,&#8221; one of the &#8220;Songs of the Incarnation,&#8221; which should be sung during this Advent season.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=734&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Reformed View of Advent</title>
		<link>http://liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com/2011/11/30/a-reformed-view-of-advent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 20:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gregory Soderberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rev. Daniel Hyde (Oceanside United Reformed Church) has a good overview of a Reformed perspective on the usefulness and propriety of recognizing Advent.  Hyde&#8217;s article, &#8220;Lutheran Puritanism?  Adiaphora in Lutheran Orthodoxy and Possible Commonalities in Reformed Orthodoxy,&#8221; which includes a relevant section, be found in the American Theological Journal.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=liturgicalinstitute.wordpress.com&amp;blog=291685&amp;post=730&amp;subd=liturgicalinstitute&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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