The Beauty of Repetition
Repetition owns a beauty.
It gives you time to contemplate, deeply reflect.
I get to attend three and four Divine Services a weekend.
What do I enjoy?
The deeper discoveries of hymn stanzas and liturgy phrases, gaining joy and insight which I missed at the 5 p.m. Saturday night service.
God has so much to unload, I simply can’t take it all in.
Repetition allows the deeper penetration of the mind and soul.
Trinity uses a different liturgy each week. How would it be if the same liturgy is used for six weeks in a row?
Might this lead to a deeper discovery of joy…to the repeating and singing of phrases from memory?
A dean of chapel from one of our seminaries, whom I emailed writes: “My general concern is that when congregations rotate service settings on a weekly basis, it makes it very difficult for people to settle into a service.”
I vividly recall many times when at the bedside of one of God’s weakened lambs, I would say the confession of sins or the Lord’s Prayer…amazingly while vocally silent before now their lips suddenly mimicked mine.
Deeply engrained is the liturgy.
We’re looking to a longer repetition of the same liturgy, and rotate according to the Church Year.
Please remember that each liturgy owns within rotating parts, e.g. the readings, hymns, prayers, etc. There’s abundant change in each liturgy while the framework remains the same.
Repetition owns a beauty.
