Jerry, I think a "litany" is a liturgy for a specific event. Any idea what variety of presbyterian. My guess would be PCUSA as I doubt most conservative presbyterian churches would bother to have a litany for stained glass windows in a middle of a service. They may dedicate the windows at a different time - but it would be quite unusual to do this in the Lord's Day worship. Using formal liturgies is though becoming popular in many conservative churches. There are some even in my own denomination that are moving in this direction, though I have no intention to. Peace, Steve Jerry wrote: > Steve, > > I thought you might be interested to know that my wife and I attended > a worship service at Providence Presbyterian church yesterday with my > son and his bride to be. > > They spend a good portion of time with "confession of sin," "a call to > confession," and "assurance of God's grace and pardon." > > The sermon was from John 21:1-19. > > They did a "litany of thanksgiving at the dedication of a stained > glass window." What is a litany??? Is it just repetitive prayer with > congregational response??? > > This was an interesting service but there was no invitation or call > for people to accept or to receive Christ. > > Oh, ... there was quite a murmur that spread through the congregation > when a black cricket was discovered crawling on the pew behind my > son. The ladies behind him exclaimed and someone tried to sweep the > cricket away. Suddenly, one of the elders seated nearby jumped over > and caught the cricket in his hand. The ladies shrieked again as the > offending insect was removed. > > If my wife had seen the cricket, .... well, ..... it would have been > chaos. > > Jerry > > To subscribe, send a message to: pastorsforum-join@... > > To unsubs > cribe, send a message to: pastorsforum-unsubscribe@... > > > > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Pastor Steven G. Rockhill Lisbon Reformed Presbyterian Church PO Box 88 Lisbon, NY 13658 315-393-9041 revrock@... http://lisbonrpc.port5.com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++