I’m against changing our pastoral formation paradigm not because I’m afraid of something. I just believe that pastoral formation is important, and like training lawyers, soldiers, doctors, and pilots, is not only about the acquisition of information, but of being formed into a way of life.

For the last few years, we’ve been testing The Lutheran Missal materials with a limited field testing audience, first the temporal lectionary, then the sanctuary lectionary, then the gradual texts, after that the collects, and now the complends (post-communions) and super populums (for weekdays in Lent).

We’re happy to announce that now anyone can access the mass texts for every day of the year in the new app for The Lutheran Missal, available for iOS and Android.

Fr. Eric Wismar has posted the entirety of Pro Ecclesia Lutherana, the journal of the Liturgical Society of St. James, online. Fr. Wismar's great-grandfather Father...well, Father Wismar (Adolph), was one of the founders of the society.