Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Invocation in Lent?

Alright, so I pulled open the Lutheran Service Builder - and it suggests that the Invocation may be omitted in Lent.

Anyone have anything on this custom - I've never heard of that one - and I had heard a lot of regional variations.

4 comments:

William Weedon said...

Just one of Builder's errors. Do NOT omit it!

Rev. Eric J Brown said...

I wasn't planning on - just because there is *a* custom (or just an error) doesn't mean that I decide to do it. I never do a custom I don't understand - and even if I understand a custom, I don't do it unless I think it is beneficial to the teaching of my people.

Mike Baker said...

No invocation?!? *faint*

Rev. Eric J Brown said...

Well, you can argue that the invocation is an innovation and we should just start the service with the Introit. . . but that wasn't what the program was suggesting.