About

The Bliturgy section is an introduction for those of you who may not be familiar with the ancient tradition of spiritual formation known as the liturgy or "order of worship".  You can simply follow along the Bliturgy (blog+liturgy) as a way to encounter God in prayer, Scripture readings, commentary, and creed.  It also serves as a way to be connected with the ancient church as well as a great majority of the church world-wide who follow a similar pattern of worship in their services and/or common books of prayer.

The daily scripture readings will follow the schedule of the Book of Common Prayers (1979) of the Anglican tradition, but the commentaries, prayers, creeds and other elements will be drawn from numerous resources, including Celtic Daily Prayer, Common Prayer: Liturgy for Ordinary Radicals, The Divine Hours, as well as my own thoughts and insights.

The Bliturgy can be done as a personal devotion or can be shared in a group.  The words found in bold are for the group to recite as a whole in an antiphonal or "choral fashion"  where as the normal font is for the leader.  Other large bold words that stand alone signify a part of the bliturgy that "goes without saying", for example The Creed is where the apostle's creed or the Nicene Creed can be declared, and the Our Father or Family Prayer would be a place for the Lord's Prayer to be prayed.  Most stand-alone bold phrases are followed by instruction like the Confession section.  The Collect is the sort-of summary prayer for the whole liturgy.  The Lectio Divina is a short portion of Scripture provided in order to provoke meditation and prayer concerning the words of the Lord. The Saints and Seasons section is a brief commentary that focuses on a saint or particular season of the Christian year (or Jewish year in some cases) that is meant to inspire us to live godly lives as the faithful who have gone before us have.  Any time you see a + sign, it means that it would be an appropriate time to make the sign of the cross.  (It's not soley a Roman Catholic thing, although Roman Catholics do practice making the sign of the cross, it's an ancient church practice has been practiced since the first and second century as a way to symbolize being "marked" or "sealed" for Christ).
In the near future, our plan is to incorporate weekly updates and from there, Lord willing, press into a daily format.  Currently, I have not had the time to focus on this as we are trying to build a base of readers for re-monk.com so that the bliturgy will be worth while. For now, i will leave the beta version up at as an example of things to come!  Blessings and thanks for stopping by.

In the Lion, In the Lamb,

mark whitten