https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2022/11-march/comment/opinion/west-faces-hard-choice-over-the-ukraine-war On the Strategic and Moral Difficulties of Dealing with Russia under Vladimir Putin The horrific destruction underway in the Ukraine may have unfolded more slowly than President Putin intended, but it continues inexorably and lately with a rising intensity of shelling on civilians that may reflect his growing frustration. Sadly, this follows a strategy Russia has used before from … [Read more...]
The Catechesis Project : “I am His” by Fr Gavin Dunbar
The Catechesis Project Book: I am His Teaching the faith, or Catechesis, is a profoundly important ministry, to which the Prayer Book Society is deeply committed. The challenges and confusions facing the Church in the modern world make the need for accurate teaching greater than ever. The Catechesis Project aims to provide a solid and sure footing, teaching the fundamentals of Christianity, and essentials of Anglican doctrine, in an accessible and compelling manner. The Common Prayer … [Read more...]
Reflection with choral music, upon the Feast of the Baptism of Christ
The Baptism of Christ c. 1475 Studio of Andrea del Verrocchio and Leonardo da Vinci Click here to listen to the audio The opening Organ Prelude: from La Nativité du Seigneur, Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992) VIII Les mages The Hymn: O worship the Lord in the Beauty of Holiness, (Was lebet, was schwebet) The First Reading : Acts 8.14-17 Carol: This is the truth sent from above, This is the truth sent from above, the truth of God, the God of love: therefore don’t turn me … [Read more...]
Just why did Archbishop Welby self-identify as a mouse ?
The 105th Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd. Justin Welby, opened the year 2022 rather dramatically by self-identifying as a mouse. His Grace further heightened the drama of this revelation by explaining --by way of elucidation-- that, he was as a mouse to an elephant when compared with Desmond Tutu, the late Archbishop of Cape Town (from 1986 to 1996, and before that Bishop of Johannesburg). If Welby’s personal insight may be surprising to some, that is to one … [Read more...]
The Editors of the Book of Common Prayer 1662, International Edition explain their editorial approach:
IVP ACADEMIC 2021 Click here to purchase from the PBS The Editors of the Book of Common Prayer 1662 (International Edition) - Samuel Bray and Drew Nathanial Keane in an explanatory note (contained in the volume itself) set out the rationale for this new edition and the very carefully considered edits made to the original text so as to make it more readily usable outside the realms and territories of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The Editors to the Reader. In the last three and a half … [Read more...]
Interview with The Most Revd. Ezekial Kondo, Archbishop of the Anglican Province of the Sudan
https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/interview-with-the-most-revd-ezekial-kondo-archbishop-of-the-anglican-province-of-the-sudan?si=c89937c7bea94bac9ab4185f1b584117 -------------------- The Church Times also carried this interview: Click here to read the article based on this interview in the Church Times (UK) This interview (with Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff) was recorded in Cairo in the context of the official Inauguration of the Anglican Province of Alexandria (which covers … [Read more...]
Interview with Archbishop Mouneer Anis, First Archbishop of the new Anglican Province of Alexandria
In this interview, given recently in Cairo, Dr. Mouneer, who only recently stepped down as Primate of the Anglican Communion's newest Province, takes the opportunity to reflect on his long ministry, both in the Church and as a medical doctor. He discusses how his sense of vocation brought him first to medicine and then -- in mid career-- to become a priest and only a very short time later Bishop of the Diocese of Egypt, (at that point the largest diocese in terms of geographic spread, in the … [Read more...]
Church of England News 2 : Shocking Coroner’s Report on suicide of falsely accused former priest
The Coroner's Report determined that the former priest of the Diocese of London (who later became a Roman Catholic) on 8th November, 2020, "killed himself because he could not cope with an investigation into his conduct, the detail of and the source for which he had never been told" and which turned out to be unsupported by evidence, yet it proceeded despite there being "no complainant, no witness and no accuser" (para 10, p 6). The Coroner adds that, "nobody took responsibility for steering … [Read more...]
An interview with Archbishop Samy Fawzy, Primate of the Anglican Province of Alexandria
The Most Revd. Dr Samy Fawzy was inaugurated on Tuesday 8th June, 2021 as Archbishop of the Episcopal/Anglican Province of Alexandria and Bishop of the Diocese of Egypt at All Saints' Cathedral Cairo by his predecessor Dr. Mouneer Hanna Anis, the First Archbishop of the recently formed Province of Alexandria, Dr Mouneer was joined at the Service by Archbishop Justin Badi (Archbishop of South Sudan and President of the Global South), Archbishop Ezekiel Kondo (Archbishop of Sudan) … [Read more...]
Surprising Church of England News 1, Resignation of the Bishop of Winchester
The Rt Revd. Tim Dakin, Bishop of Winchester There have been a number of surprising and even shocking news items emerging from the Church of England in the last few days. The early retirement of the Bishop of Winchester after he had already "stepped back" from his role last May. Not least surprising is the rather sudden announcement by the Bishop of Winchester (consecrated in 2011) that he is to retire early. He had already stepped aside from his position since May when he was threatened … [Read more...]
Archbishop Welby really is very, very, sorry
Justin Welby prostrate in apology at the Sikh Golden Temple of Amritsar What should the world be expected make of someone who said that they were complicit in the bombing of a city, a massacre in India, offending gay people, had inadequately responded to child abuse, has white advantage and is systemically racist? Then again, how does it affect things when he explains that he is also very very sorry about all this? Does it change anything when the person announcing these things … [Read more...]
The Overlooked Genocide: the fate of Christians in Ethiopia’s Tigray Region
Tigray Refugees, (Photo: Africa Report) Reports have been coming in since late last year of a major catastrophe leading to the mass murder of Christians in the Tigray region of Ethiopia but they have received astonishingly little attention. The horrors began last November after fighting broke out in Tigray as the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops, with the support of troops from Eritrea, to fight the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which he accused of holding … [Read more...]
The First Prayer Book Royal Funeral: arranged by the Catholic Queen Mary for Edward VI
The First Prayer Book Royal Funeral: King Edward VI “Edward the sixth by the Grace of God King of England, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith and on earth under Christ supreme head of the Churches of England and Ireland and he migrated from this life on the 6th day of July in the evening at the 8th hour in the year of our Lord 1553 and in the 7th year of his reign and in the 16th year of his age”. So reads the inscription on Edward’s coffin as transcribed and … [Read more...]
Order of Service of the Funeral of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
FUNERAL of HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS THE PRINCE PHILIP DUKE OF EDINBURGH Saturday, 17th April, 2021 at 3.00pm During the service, a choir of four singers (three of whom are Lay Clerks of St George's Chapel Choir) will be conducted by James Vivian and the organ will be played by Luke Bond. Music before the service - Schmucke dich, o liebe Seele BWV 654 - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) - Adagio espressivo (Sonata in A minor) - Sir William Harris (1883-1973) - Salix … [Read more...]
Fr. Gavin Dunbar reflects on Michelangelo and the Conversion of Saint Paul
The Conversion of St Paul, Michelangelo, The Pauline Chapel, The Vatican (public domain) Scripture narratives are not just narratives. They don’t just tell us about persons and events: they are also reflections on the meaning of those events for faith; and this significance is conveyed by the way the story is told, by the selection of details, and the choice of words to describe them. A good preacher will bring out the significance of these stories for faith; and some of the best preachers … [Read more...]
New Archbishop of Dublin makes waves – on women Deacons, Priests, same-sex unions and clerical celibacy
Considerable interest has been generated far beyond the shores of Ireland by the recently announced appointment of Dermot Farrell as the new Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, in succession to Archbishop Diarmuid Martin a former Vatican diplomat. The Archbishop elect gave a long interview to the Irish Times that has occasioned alarm among traditional Roman Catholics who understood him to have stated that he is "in favor of women deacons and married priests. He does not find in … [Read more...]
The Revd. Dr. Robert Crouse remembered
The Rt. Revd Anthony Burton, of the Parish of the Incarnation in Dallas, yesterday noted the tenth anniversary of the death of the Revd. Dr Crouse with this tribute on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bishopburton The Rev. Dr. Robert Crouse, one of the most influential Canadian theologians of his generation, died ten years ago tonight in his rural childhood home on Crouse Road, Crousetown, Nova Scotia, where his family had lived for more than 200 years. He was 80. He … [Read more...]
Why follow the Anglican Way? A question answered in the writings of Dr Peter Toon
The Revd. Dr. Peter Toon (1939-2009) A long serving President of the Prayer Book Society and Editor of its Magazine WHY FOLLOW THE ANGLICAN WAY? The Anglican Way is both Ancient and Modern In religion what has been believed, taught and confessed for centuries and what has been prayed, tested and performed during two millennia is more likely to be a sound guide in our quests to find God than modern insights which pay no attention to “ancient wisdom.” In the Anglican Way, … [Read more...]
Church & Culture the true Covid Crisis of 2020
The role of Christianity in shaping the culture, laws and ultimate identity of both the United States and United Kingdom specifically and more widely of western civilization has been central to the emergent intellectual and cultural crisis that may well prove for history the most enduring legacy of the COVID virus. It sets a powerful context and agenda which the Society will be addressing in the pages of its new look Anglican Way magazine - set for relaunch in January 2021 … [Read more...]
Advent Hope
BLESSED HOPE By The Revd. Fr. Gavin Dunbar (Rector St. John’s Episcopal Church, Savannah President of the Prayer Book Society, USA) I once listened to a clergyman speaking on the theme of hope: a great theme, and he knew how to talk. It became apparent, however, that the more he spoke the less he was saying. In particular I was struck by what he managed not to say: what we might hope for, and what we should hope in. His was a vague, generic hope, without any actual … [Read more...]
What is Common Prayer – by the Revd. Dr. Peter Toon
What is Common Prayer? The word “common” is used in all kinds of ways, and so what do Anglicans mean by the word “common” when it is associated with public prayer and worship? Since we are referring to the worship of our Creator and Redeemer, Almighty God, we can dismiss quickly the popular meaning of “common” as that which is ordinary, undistinguished or even of inferior quality. The texts of the services and rites used before God to address him are surely intended to be of high not low … [Read more...]
Richard Hooker on The Book of Common Prayer:
An extract from the "judicious" Mr Hooker's Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book V, There is here a notably heavy emphasis upon the priority of corporate over individual prayer, of the importance of the holy place where worship occurs and of the vocation and holiness of the minister/priest who conducts the worship. Extempore prayer in comparison with the written Common Prayer is very much deprecated Private and public prayer This holy and religious duty of service towards God … [Read more...]
J. I. Packer on Revaluing the Book of Common Prayer
As we recall the great work and achievements of the late Professor J I Packer (image above from Regent College, Canada) who died in July this year, it is apposite to recall from the Society's archives this article first published in 2000: For Truth, Unity, and Hope: Revaluing the Book of Common Prayer (Comprising part of a very slightly edited version of an address first given to the Canadian Prayer Book Society It references the Canadian BCP of 1962 as well as the Book of … [Read more...]
The Church’s sacramental ministry is not an optional extra
CHURCH TIMES Thursday 05 November 2020 The precautions in place in churches mean that there is no justification for suspending public worship, argues Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff Original Photo in the Church TImes: The Dean of York, the Rt Revd Jonathan Frost, celebrates holy communion in York Minster, in July, after the first lockdown restrictions in England were eased ALL churches are, once again, to be shut, and all public worship … [Read more...]
Choral Evensong with Sermon (Feast of Ss. Simon and Jude)
St Simon whose emblem is a fish (on the left) and St Jude, with a boat (on the right) All Saints Church Carleton Rode -- Rood screen The opening anthem: "A New Song" by Sir James MacMillan the words from Psalm 96:1-2, 13: O sing unto the Lord a new song, sing unto the Lord all the whole earth. Sing unto the Lord and praise his name, be telling of his salvation from day to day. For he cometh to judge the earth, and with righteousness to judge the world and the people with his … [Read more...]
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