about 2 weeks ago - 2 comments
Given the primary subject matter of The Anglo-Catholic, presenting the endeavors toward reestablishment of communion between faithful Anglicans and Mother Church, it is quite easy to get caught up in the theoretical, abstract, and esoteric elements of ecclesiology. These discussions are absolutely necessary and beneficial for our growth in the grace and knowledge of our More >
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
I offer you this meditation for next Sunday’s Gospel from Vladimir Soliviev, God, Man and the Church, Cambridge 1937, pp. 123-127. Indeed, we clergy have to be constantly on our guard, particularly in regard to the temptation of power and controlling other people.
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(…) Christ as God freely renounces his glory and by so More >
about 3 weeks ago - 12 comments
If you wish to use this service order, you can copy and paste it into the publishing application of your choice. This service order is reproduced from the Warren translation (1911) of the Sarum Missal.
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After Sext, first shall the sermon, if there be one, be addressed to the people. Then shall the clerks More >
about 3 weeks ago - 1 comment
As a follow-up to Fr. Chadwick’s recent post on the Lenten Array, here are a couple of extracts from Percy Dearmer’s The Parson’s Handbook.
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From The Parson’s Handbook (Sixth Edition), pp. 511-514:
Lent.—The Lenten array should be hung up on Shrove Tuesday evening for Ash Wednesday[1]. English tradition does not allow of the use of More >
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
Some of you might be participating in a carnival somewhere near where you live, that last fling of merriment before getting serious for Lent. The Carnival is an old tradition in many countries, particularly flamboyant in Brazil, much of the rest of South America and Mexico. Here in Europe, strong Carnival traditions are found in More >
about 3 weeks ago - 2 comments
Lenten Array is the characteristic veiling of the altars and statues of churches following the English Use, which follows medieval north European precedent. The purple you see in many churches is a Roman Catholic custom which was only followed universally from the nineteenth century. Lenten Array negates colour to a large extent, marking the penitential More >
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
Note: This article is inspired to some extent by a chapter in Dom Guéranger’s Liturgical Year, which is too lengthy to reproduce here. Also see this fine article in the New Liturgical Movement.
Septuagesima is a brief period of two and a half weeks to prepare us for Lent. Anglicans using the Prayer Book are familiar More >
about 1 month ago - 3 comments
Heavenly King, of Kings the Pastor,
Giv’r of laws, of justice master,
Ruling all by Thy behest,
Unto Thee to-day we render
Praise for him, to memory tender,
Charles our King, of kings the best.
Traitors shedding blood like water
Filled the land with crime and slaughter,
Law was trampled in the mud,
Noble churches left forsaken
And the White Rose, overtaken
By the sword, was More >
about 1 month ago - 1 comment
I am quite surprised that this site – Full Homely Divinity – hasn’t been mentioned here.
It concentrates on the old folk traditions of English parish religion and spirituality, both in medieval English Catholicism and its survival in post-Reformation Anglicanism. I have often found this site useful for matters like Sarum Lenten Array (which I use) More >
about 1 month ago - 30 comments
“I shall go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown, where no disturbance can be.”
Tomorrow, the thirtieth day of January, is the anniversary of the martyrdom of King Charles I. In all editions of the Book of Common Prayer from A.D. 1662 to A.D. 1859, opposite January 30 in the Kalendar stands the More >
It is a custom of Holy Church for the priest to bless chalk on the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6th, this coming Wednesday) and for the faithful to inscribe the numerals of the year and the initials of the Three Wise Men over the doors to their houses. It is also traditional for the houses of the faithful to be blessed on this day.
about 2 months ago
And I would add that the initials of the Wise Men may also be read as “Christus Mansionem Benedicat”!
Best regards,
about 2 months ago
Yes, as long as you don’t spell Caspar with a “K” or a “G” or even a “J”…
about 2 months ago
Cardinal Kasper is quiet of late. Perhaps he is already in his bathchair in the Old Dinosaurs’ Home being tenderly looked after by Nurse Diesel!
about 2 months ago
NQ for the reminder!