Episode Details

This week, Clara and Miles step into the nave for the Cathedral Eucharist, the principal Sunday celebration of the whole cathedral community. It is the service our pilgrims may recognize most intimately, because we have been practicing much of it on Sunday mornings at St. James by-the-Sea throughout Easter: the Gospel Alleluia, the Eucharistic responses, and the shape of the liturgy itself.

In this episode, we explore how the Cathedral Eucharist gathers Word, Sacrament, music, movement, and community into one great act of worship. We talk about why the service takes place in the nave, what makes it different from Evensong, and how Harold Darke’s Communion Service in E and Stephanie Martin’s Ave Verum Corpus help carry the mystery of the morning.

Also featured: sensible shoes, leaflet panic, incarnational theology in the nave, and the continuing emotional support ministry of Anglican choreography.

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