Open Office - Copyleft Liturgy

Considering all our monastic and office chat lately, it was interesting to see the folks from Vaux have come back online with an opensource approach to liturgy. From the website:

The Open Office is an attempt to affirm that liturgical rhythm, but using resources written by people 'on the ground', rather than published and canonised from on high.

Each post is categorized to allow users to search through the normal headings of an Office: morning, noon, evening and night prayer, plus prayers and liturgies for festivals, birthdays and pretty much anything else. All of life can be celebrated, lamented or remembered together.

ThePrayer For a Meal on Tired Evening After a Week of Struggles in the City is especially great! Though Victoria's not so "city" as we sometimes pretend to think it is....Perhaps "a prayer for a meal on a tired evening after a week of struggles with people who are really laid back" would be more fitting of the island...

Thoughts in general?

Via Kester Brewin

Neo-Monastic Links

To serve as primer's for our next gathering...
(thanks Ron!)
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/009/16.38.html

http://www.christiancentury.org/article.lasso?id=1399

http://www.newmonasticism.org/

http://www.monkfish-abbey.org/practices/neo-monasticism

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2005/135/52.0.html
http://jacobswellchurch.org/tim/archives/New%20monasticism%20paper.pdf

Suggested reading for (y)our fenced in backyard(s)

"Inviting someone over for dinner in the suburbs is regularly considered pathological in these suburbs. Suburban people are either too busy, too self-protected or too worried what your agenda might be to ever come over. Likewise, I as a pastor and others in our church are regularly so busy, it hardly seems possible.

Do I believe it is impossible? No. We must continue to pursue a relentless practice of being hospitable as a distinctive subversive Christian act in the suburbs. I must change my life to live more simply, have more time and practice neighborhood acts of cooperative living."

~David Fitch from "Intentional Hospitality Amidst the White-Washed Isolation of the Suburban Malaise: Rantings on Being the Church in the Suburbs"