The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission
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The Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission is an association of people in the The Episcopal Church in the United States, the Anglican Church of Canada, and sister churches who share a passion for liturgy that is well done, appropriate
to the culture and context, and revelatory of God's lively mission in the world.
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- Members of APLM played a major role in drafting and promoting the Book of Common Prayer in ECUSA, and the Book of Alternative Services in Canada.
- APLM played a major role in the reestablishment of the Eucharist’s primacy in worship and parish life amongst North American Anglicans
- The organization has championed the centrality of baptism as the foundation for Christian ministry and has worked for the restoration of the Catechumenate within the life of the church
- APLM has been a major advocate of the recovery of a distinctive deaconate in ordained ministry
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| The Rev. Dr. Louis Weil (left) with APLM President Jay Koyle. |
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Council Associate Louis Weil Recognized for Outstanding Contribution
The Rev. Dr. Louis Weil, Associate Member of APLM Council, was presented the Berakah Award at the January 2012 gathering of the North American Academy of Liturgy (NAAL) in Montreal, Quebec.
Awarded annually, this recognition honors a member of the academy for her/his outstanding contribution to liturgical scholarship.
Dr. Weil was acknowledged this year not only for his influential teaching career and extensive writing over a span of five decades, but also for the key role he has played in the advancement of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer and the promotion of a robust baptismal ecclesiology in the life of The Episcopal Church (TEC) and beyond. He stands, too, as a founding member of three major international associations – Societas Liturgica, the International Anglican Liturgical Consultation, and NAAL. He continues to serve as a member of TEC’s Standing Commission on Liturgy and Music.
From 1988 until his retirement in 2009, Dr. Weil taught as the James F. Hodges Professor of Liturgics at the Church Divinity School of the Pacific. He has also served at Nashotah House in Wisconsin and El Seminario Episcopal del Caribe in Puerto Rico.
APLM congratulates Dr. Weil for this well-deserved honor, and we thank him for his extraordinary contribution and witness in the life of the church!
NAAL is an ecumenical and inter-religious association of liturgical scholars who collaborate in research concerning public worship. Its purpose is to promote liturgical scholarship among its members through opportunities for exchange of ideas, and to extend the benefits of this scholarship to the worshiping communities to which its members belong.
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Stirring the Waters 3: Council to meet in Windsor-Detroit to prep for General Convention
The Council of APLM will meet in Windsor, Ontario and Detroit, Michigan from June 6-11, 2012. Gathering primarily at Canterbury College, University of Windsor, Council members will continue to focus on promoting robust baptismal theology in the worship and mission of the North American church. Much of the gathering will find Council preparing for an ambitious and promising agenda at the General Convention of The Episcopal Church, scheduled for July in Indianapolis. There will also be a number of free sessions, however, open to APLM members, clergy, liturgists, ministers of formation, and other guests from the surrounding area. For details about times and speakers for these sessions, please stay tuned!
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APLM Council Meeting -
The Relation of Baptism and Eucharist
The practice of "Open Communion” continues to generate much discussion, enjoying wider acceptance in some places within the church while it is resisted in others. Indeed, this is a question with which APLM Council has grappled in the past. It is one that deserves further attention as APLM (and the wider church) follows up on the work of the Shreveport Baptismal Consultation.
There are questions beneath that of Open Communion which, far too often, go unrecognized and unaddressed. For example, what are the changes in ecclesiology, both deliberate and unconscious, behind the practice of open table?
In this session, Council member John Hill contends that today’s church is characterized by a widespread lack of any clear sense of sacramental identity, oblivious to the symbolic grammar which articulates that identity. He is convinced, however, that engaging the controversy surrounding Open Communion can lead us to a renewed awareness of the paschal, eschatological, and ecclesiological meaning of the sacraments, an awareness we began to recover in the Liturgical Movement.
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What is Associated Parishes for Liturgy and Mission?
Founded in 1946, the Council of Associated Parishes functions as a kind of "liturgical think tank", studying, imagining, and sharing our experiences of different expressions of liturgy.
If you want to know more about APLM, check out our FAQ section. Also check out our journal Open.
For new membership, information about how to join and a new member form, go to our Join Us! page.
If you have any questions or comments about the organization or this site, please contact us at info@associatedparishes.org.
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Two Ways to Stay Connected with Others who are Passionate about Liturgy
Associated Parishes offers its own Associated Parishes Blog and Facebook page as two ways for you to stay connected and keep the conversation going.
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