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.

Is a Bishop just a priest, or is a priest a Bishop?

If a Bishop has no other ability than the priest, then he is simply a priest. He has a higher dignity, but so does a pröst. [trans. note: This term could be used for a prior, the dean of a region under a bishop, or one who is a pastor in his own parish as opposed to being under a kyrkoherde. In any of these senses it is an honor given to a priest.] A monsignor and a cardinal, an archpriest and an abbot, these are all higher 23 dignities of the clerical estate, but all these high prelates are only priests. And there is a significant group of theologians, who cannot be denied the epithet catholic, in the present day, who believe that the Bishop is a priest.