The Three-Day Feast: Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter

by Gail Ramshaw

Overview

Recent decades have witnessed the revival of the ancient liturgies of the Three Days-Maundy Thursday, Good Friday, and the Easter Vigil. In this book Ramshaw gives a little history and a lot of suggestions about how these services can enrich the worship life of your entire assembly.

The Worship Matters Studies Series examines key worship issues through studies by pastors, musicians, and lay people from throughout the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Features include:

> Informal and insightful writing for all readers

Study questions at the end of every chapter

Examines vital issues in weekly worship

Helps leaders and congregants understand and experience worship more richly

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806651156
Publisher:	1517 Media
Publication date:	12/13/2004
Series:	Worship Matters
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	96
Product dimensions:	4.50(w) x 6.00(h) x 0.30(d)

About the Author

Gail Ramshaw, M.A., M.Div., Ph.D., D.D., a retired professor of religion, has published extensively in the field of liturgical language. Her most recent publications are Word of God, Word of Life: Understanding the Three-Year Lectionaries (2019), a collection of liturgical prayers titled Pray, Praise, and Give Thanks (2017), and a collection of personal prayers titled Blessing and Beseeching (2022). In 2010 she received the Berakah award from the North American Academy of Liturgy. In 2019 she was honored by Virginia Theological Seminary with the degree of Doctor of Divinity, and in 2020 received a Doctor of Divinity from Wartburg Theological Seminary.