Introit : Praise ye the Lord, ye children (Ps 113:1-4) -- Christopher Tye (1500-1572) Preces and Responses*: Wlliam Smith of Durham (1603-1645) Psalm 23: Dominus regit me -- Sir John Goss (1800-1880), The Lord is my shepherd; * therefore can I lack nothing. 2 He shall feed me in a green pasture, * and lead me forth beside the waters of comfort. Magnificat sexti toni -- Adrian Willaert (1490-1562) Nunc dimittis tertii toni -- Tomás Luis de Victoria (1548-1611) Reflection on St … [Read more...]
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Our most recent major events have been our two Annual Conferences in February 2017 on
Anglicanism Catholic and Reformed 1517-2017, Revisiting the Reformation Legacy
and in January 2018 on
The Prayer Book, Doctrine Liturgy and Life
Both held at St. John's Episcopal Church Savannah,
In addition, we have continued our occasional series of one conferences and colloquia
With the most recent being on Apologetics, Science and Faith at the Church of St Francis Potomac near Washington DC. on 10th February, 2018
see also http://www.pbsusa.org/2017/05/22/science-and-faith-at-the-pbs-conference-and-two-panel-discussions/#read
Earlier colloquia included:
One in Dallas at the Church of the Incarnation, on the proposed "Comprehensive Revision" of the liturgy of the Episcopal Church of which there is an initial report in the current Advent 2017 Edition of the Anglican Way.
Board Members have also attended the Nashotah House Conference on the future of Anglicanism as well as the Theology Conference in November at the Church of the Advent, Boston.
Board members also been active overseas:
--as contributing participants in the recent Pusey House Conference in Oxford on Knowing and Loving the Triune God.
--Fr Edward Rix also visited Tanzania and spoke at the invitation of the Bishop of Western Tanganyika, to several thousand at a Youth Conference in Kasulu of which a full report is in the Advent 2017 edition of the Anglican Way
We have also launched further chapters of our volume for Catechesis by Society President Gavin Dunbar, I am His.
These chapters can be accessed via the links below
(and also our pbsusa.org website http://www.pbsusa.org/catechesis-project ) and we welcome feedback which can be taken into account in future editions of this work.
I am His Chapters now available :
I am His - Table of Contents & Introduction
I am His Part 1 - A Place To Belong
Choral Evensong with Reflection for the Commemoration of St Thomas Aquinas
Image above taken from the upper tier of a polyptych (multi-panelled altarpiece) painted by Carlo Crivelli in 1476 for the high altar of the church of San Domenico, in Ascoli Piceno in the Italian Marche, now in the National Gallery, London, originally placed with Saint Francis at the opposite end of the altarpiece with both looking up at the Lamentation over the Dead Christ, which was originally in the centre panel of the upper tier (now in New … [Read more...]
Week of Prayer for Christian Unity – Address and Vigil service
The sisters of the Community of Grandchamp in Switzerland were invited by the World Council of Churches and the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity to produce the liturgical material for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity this year. The link below may be used to access the Audio of a webcast from the 2nd of three Vigils held over the course of the week of Prayer for Christian Unity, in this case held jointly (online) by the congregations of The Grosvenor Chapel Mayfair and the … [Read more...]
Choral Evensong upon the occasion of the Feast of St Aelred of Rievaulx
Illumination from a manuscript of St Aelred's Life of Edward the Confessor Showing St Aelred in monastic habit kneeling before King Henry II To hear the Audio please click on the link below: https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/evensong-upon-the-feast-of-st-aelred-of-rievaulx Opening Anthem: Memento mei Paweł Łukaszewski (born 1968), Mark Dwyer, conductor Memento mei, Domine, dum veneris in regnum tuum. Remember me O Lord, when thou comest into thy kingdom. (cf … [Read more...]
Reflection for the Season of Epiphany (with particular reference to Giotto’s Scrovegni Frescoes)
To hear the audio please use this link: https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/epiphanytide-reflection-with-music Organ voluntary: Toccata del secondo tono, (Anon.), played by Alessandro Bianchi, on the organ of the Basilica di S. Paolo Cantù, Como.. Anthem: For unto us a child is born, (The Messiah), Handel Reflection, part 1, Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff The Shepherd’s Carol, Robert Chilcott Reflection, … [Read more...]
“A Prize Charlie” – A. N. Wilson on the Archbishop of Canterbury
The Crisis in the Episcopate “I do not suppose there is a single person in the country who finds Justin Welby an inspiring figure. Whether we think of his egotistical gesture of celebrating the Easter liturgy from the kitchen of a dismal flat in Lambeth Palace, or his recent suggestion that centuries-old church monuments, many of great beauty, should be gouged out in order tosatisfy his judgmental reading of history, the Archbishop of Canterbury seems like a prize Charlie.” So wrote the … [Read more...]
Reflection On The Last Great O Antiphon Of Advent, with Choral Music for Christmas Eve
Above: Mary Greets Elizabeth after the Annunciation, Fresco attributed to Isidoro Bianchi, Il Santuario di Santa Maria de Ghirli, Campione D'Italia To hear the Audio please click on the link below https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/reflection-on-the-last-great-o-antiphon-of-advent-choral-music-for-christmas-eve Organ Voluntary: Cathedral Suite – Sarabande Played by Alessandro Bianchi The Organist and Director of Music at the Church of St Edward … [Read more...]
Of Alcuin and Antiphons…..
Raban Maur (left), supported by Alcuin (middle), dedicates his work to Archbishop Otgar of Mainz (Right) From the 9th Century Fulda - Manuscript: Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, cod.652, fol. 2v A reflection with Advent Choral Music including two settings of the O Antiphon: O Sapientia Organ Voluntary: Prelude on Rhosymedre -- Ralph Vaughan Williams Hymn: On Jordan’s bank (Winchester New) O Sapientia (the first of the “O Antiphons”) as set by Paweł Łukaszewski … [Read more...]
Governor Cuomo’s defeat on limiting church attendance
PBS Board Member William Murchison rebuts the impudent secularism of our time and reflects on the legal defeat of Governor Cuomo of New York in the Supreme Court in an article just published William Murchison argues that unjust treatment of churches in lockdowns shows just how disordered our priorities are when now of all times we should turn to God, in community. The most striking aspect for Murchison of the U. S. Supreme Court’s decision, disallowing New York Governor … [Read more...]
The First Sunday of Advent – Reflection with Choral Music
The Three Wise Men, John La Farge (1835-1910) La Farge, whose work in stained glass was widely admired is commemorate on 16th December together with Ralph Adams Cram and Robert Upjohn The Collect for the First Sunday of Advent: ALMIGHTY God, give us grace that we may cast away the works of darkness, and put upon us the … [Read more...]
Reflecting on the life to come…
A Reflection on the Last Things interspersed with choral music (The image above - public domain - is part of The Last Judgment a triptych attributed to the Flemish painter Hans Memling and painted between 1467 and 1471 now in the National Museum in Gdańsk in Poland) To listen click on this link below https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/a-reflection-on-the-last-things-for-the-grosvenor-chapel-in-the-parish-of-mayfair-london Hymn, Now is the Evening Introit: Almighty and … [Read more...]
Veterans Day – Reflection
To hear the audio please use this link https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/armistice-veterans-day-reflection Prelude and Postlude Feierlicher Einzug der Ritter des Johanniter-Ordens, TrV 224 Richard Strauss (1864-1949) arranged by Gary Olson for brass quintet & organ with Christopher Schroeder, Trumpet; Robby Marx, Trumpet; Liam Hanna, French Horn; Lauren Casey-Clyde, Trombone; Matthew Groves, Bass Trombone, Jeremy Lang, Timpani & Katelyn Emerson, … [Read more...]
Locking Down Churches in England — Again
(A locked church entrance, from geograph.org.uk) All Churches are, once again, to be shut and all public worship ended in England by Government order, as part of the latest “lockdown”. The manner of announcing this adds to the rightful shock and dismay it will cause, as Boris Johnson, the Prime Minister did not even feel it a point worth troubling to mention when announcing the overall conditions of the lockdown from Downing Street. The news was merely slipped out later on the … [Read more...]
In Quires and Places where they sing,…..
The latest e-mail update from the Society has just gone out. It highlights the Choral Evensongs and Reflections that we have been making available through the course of the current Pandemic. And we have just passed the milestone of having our 2000th listener ! These webcasts have usually had a particular focus of which the figures above are illustrative: From Left to Right, on the top row: John Mason Neale, St Benedict, John Keble, then on the bottom row: St James the Apostle, Bishop … [Read more...]
What are the duties of Christians, … in a time of such dire calamity? – John Keble
That was the Question posed by John Keble in his famous Assize Sermon that launched the Oxford Movement in July 1833 Commemorated in a Choral Evensong with Sermon upon the Feast of John Keble https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/choral-evensong-sermon-for-the-feast-of-john-keble-july-2020 With music from the sound archives of The Grosvenor Chapel under the Direction of Richard Hobson and the Church of Advent Boston, under the Direction of Mark Dwyer assisted by Jeremy … [Read more...]
Choral Evensong with Sermon For the Feast of St Benedict
Evensong upon the Feast of St Benedict of Nursia Abbot of Monte Cassino, c. 540 The Grosvenor Chapel, Mayfair London Officiant and preacher: The Revd Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff Introit : Venite adoremus, Mode VII Psalm 27, 10-16 Dominus illuminatio ; Lessons: Proverbs 2:1-9 ; Luke 14:27–33 Preces and Responses, Radcliffe; The Magnificat and Nunc dimittis, Howells in B minor The Anthem: Lord I have loved the habitation, Tomkins Recessional Hymn: Rendez à … [Read more...]
A Reflection for the Feast of St Thomas
St Thomas' Basilica Cathedral Chennai A Reflection by Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff for the Grosvenor Chapel in the Parish of Mayfair, for the Feast of St Thomas the Apostle, remembering also St Elizabeth Queen of Portugal and the distinguished ecclesiastics of the Venn family. The music comprises the Agnus Dei from the Missa “Delectus Meus” by the Portuguese composer Filipe de Magalhães A setting of Psalm 149 O Praise ye the Lord by Thomas … [Read more...]
Readings, Sermon and Liturgical Resources for the Third Sunday After Trinity
The Readings 1 Peter 5:5-11 All of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble. 6 Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time: 7 Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you. 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour: 9 Whom resist stedfast in the faith, knowing that … [Read more...]
Facebook decides the Devil is real & needs their protection
In a curious turn of events, Facebook blocked promotion of a post for the Feast of St Dunstan on the PBS USA facebook page Facebook blocked this on the following grounds : "it uses an image or video that contains shocking, sensational, or excessively violent content" Evidently, the problem was the mediaeval manuscript illustration above (on velum), showing the saint (in a much celebrated episode) evicting the Devil from his hermitage where he had come to tempt him, … [Read more...]
The Feast of St Bede
The Venerable Bede from a manuscript in the British Library From a Letter on the Death of the Venerable Bede By St Cuthbert (Nn. 4-6: PL 90, 64-66) On Tuesday before the feast of the Ascension, Bede’s breathing became labored and a slight swelling appeared in his legs. Nevertheless, he gave us instruction all day long and dictated cheerfully the whole time. It seemed to us, however, that he knew very well that his end was near, and so he spent the whole night giving thanks to … [Read more...]
The Feast of St Dunstan – A reflection
St Dunstan takes the Devil by the nose.... Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff reflects upon the life of this 10th Century Archbishop of Canterbury and the way in which his biography later became hotly contested terrain, used and interpreted in very different ways by polemicists of the Roman Catholic church as well as the High and Low church factions of the Church of … [Read more...]
Fifth Sunday After Easter – Additional Liturgical Resources
Above: Colonel John Lemon, MP of Truro (1754 - 1814) (Composer of the Psalm Chant heard in the Evensong linked below) https://soundcloud.com/mark-dwyer-2/20200513-choral-evensong-webcast Here painted by Gilbert Stuart (North Kingstown, Rhode Island 1755 - Boston 1828), circa 1780. Date circa 1780 - 1793 Colonel Lemon was educated at Truro Grammar School and Harrow. He became a lieutenant colonel in the Horse Guards before being elected to Parliament as a Whig MP Lemon was an amateur … [Read more...]
A Reflection on the Occasion of the Feast of St Monica, the mother of Saint Augustine of Hippo
Above: St Monica, the mother of St Augustine of Hippo by the Spanish mannerist painter of Toledo Luis Tristán de Escamilla 1585-1624 (The Prado) A Reflection by Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff with the Choir of the Church of the Advent Boston In recent days, as we follow the Church Calendar through the Festal season of Easter we have had occasion to think quite a bit about the early church in North Africa, with Cyril of Carthage coming up in my last reflection, as he grappled so … [Read more...]
If a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully….
Christ the Good Shepherd c.1540 Lucas Cranach the Younger Angermuseum, Erfurt A Sermon for the Second Sunday after Easter (Good Shepherd Sunday) 26th April 2020, at Saint John’s Church in Savannah From the FIRST EPISTLE GENERAL OF SAINT PETER THE APOSTLE 2:19 i . In the ancient world slaves supplied needed muscle in mines and fields, skilled labor in workshops and households. They occupied positions of responsibility as managers, doctors, … [Read more...]
The First Sunday after Easter
For an Audio webcast of The Liturgy for the First Sunday After Easter with Sermon By Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff (From The Church of the Advent Boston) Vidi Aquam -- Mode VIII Kyrie in D –– Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958) Communion Service in D Major, Sir Edward Bairstow (1874–1946) as also the motet, Let all mortal flesh keep silence The Gradual: Psalm 114, Festal Setting and the setting of the Regina coeli à 8, by Tomás Luis deVictoria … [Read more...]
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