“The Hidden and the Revealed: Less Familiar Aspects of Lent, Holy Week, and Easter Day in the Late Medieval Use of Sarum.” A Series of three lectures by Professor John Harper available online to be be given at 2 p.m. (EST) on Monday (21st February), Tuesday (22nd February), and Wednesday (23rd February), To register go to http://americansarum.org This series of lectures is part of a virtual conference and will be given by John Harper, Emeritus Professor of Christian Music and … [Read more...]
Sermons from Trinity and Pentecost Sunday onwards
Please find below Sermons for The Second Sunday After Trinity First Sunday after Trinity Trinity Sunday Whitsunday Sermon for Trinity II by the the Revd. Fr. William Martin June 26, 2022 Blessed is he that shall eat bread in the Kingdom of God. St. Luke xiv. 15 The liturgical season of Trinity tide is all about virtuous and godly living. In this season, we are called to translate and convert our vision of Christ the Way, the Truth, and the Life into habits of … [Read more...]
Choral Eucharist with Sermon for The Ascension
https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/ascension-day-choral-mass-with-sermon-recorded-at-the-church-of-the-advent-boston?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Opening Processional Hymns: Hail the day that sees him rise, Llanfair; Æterne Rex altissime, Gonfalon Royal; Introit Viri Galilaei Mode VII, Falsobordone by Healey Willan (1880–1968) Communion Service in E “Collegium Regale”, Harold E. Darke … [Read more...]
A Summer Conference on the practicalities of Church Music
Announcing: The Caedmon Church Music Conference August 3rd-6th, 2022 at Saint Mark’s Reformed Episcopal Church 1162 Beverly Road, Jenkintown, Pennsylvania 19046 Featuring Lectures & Practical Instruction In: CONDUCTING, THEOLOGY, SINGING, LITURGY, & ORGAN "to inspire, equip, and encourage musicians and clergy who are building music ministries in the Anglican way" Led by: Andrew Dittman, professional singer and soloist, who also serves as choirmaster at The … [Read more...]
Festival of Lessons and Carols for Christmas
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols for Christmastide https://soundcloud.com/mark-dwyer-2/21312021-a-festival-of-nine-lessons-carols-for-christmastide The Service opens with the Carol: Once in Royal David's City... Words: Cecil Frances Humphreys Alexander (1818–1895); Hymns for Little Children, London, 1848 Music: Irby, Henry John Gauntlett (1805–1876), arr Jeffrey Smith (born 1960) & David Willcocks … [Read more...]
The Windsor Continuation Group Report (re Remarks of Abp Mouneer)
The Rt. Revd. Clive Handford, Bishop of Cyprus and the Gulf Chairman of the Windsor Continuation Group There follows below the text of the short Report of the Windsor Continuation Group to which Archbishop Mouneer in his recent interview makes reference. The Windsor Continuation Group This Group was set up by the Archbishop of Canterbury following his Advent Letter to the Primates in December 2007. (Here appended before the Report) The group was asked to … [Read more...]
Anglican, Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox views on the Real Presence – a debate
A mild uproar breaks out ! After the posting of Anglican understandings of the Eucharist, a Reflection with choral Music a debate broke out of which the opening posts follow below From Messrs Liam Warner, Drew Keane and Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff (The original webcast that provoked them can still be heard via this link: https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/corpus-christi-reflection-on-anglican-understandings-of-the-eucharist ) Pictured above (Above left to right: … [Read more...]
Reflection on Holy Communion – with choral music.
The Lord's Supper, Nicholas Poussin From his Second Series of seven paintings on the Sacraments, painted in a style that is very consciously not Baroque, for his friend the French ambassador to the Papal Court, Paul Freart de Chantelou from 1644 to 1648. To access the audio. please click the following link https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/corpus-christi-reflection-on-anglican-understandings-of-the-eucharist Introit: Cibavit eos -- William Byrd (1540-1623) (Antiphon) … [Read more...]
Dr Crouse on “The practice of Christian love”
Dr. Crouse in Convocation Robes, The University of King's College Halifax “The practice of Christian love” Sermon for The First Sunday after Trinity by The Revd. Dr. Robert D. Crouse In this was manifested the love of God towards us, because that God sent his only-begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our si ns. Beloved, if God so loved us, we … [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...]
Why do we go to church? A Trinity Sunday Reflection with Choral Music
Adoration of the Trinity (Landauer Altar) Albrecht Durer, 1511, Kunst Historisches Musee, Vienna To hear the audio click on the link below: https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/trinity-sunday-reflection Introit: Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, SWV 380 -- Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672) Also hat Gott die Welt geliebt, daß er seinen eingebornen Sohn gab, auf daß alle die an ihn glauben nicht verloren warden, sondern das ewige Leben haben. For God so loved the world, that he sent his … [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...]
Reflection and Choral Evensong commemorating St Gilbert of Sempringham
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
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...]
Choral Evensong with Sermon, Commemoration of Bishop Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)
Choral Evensong with Sermon upon the occasion of the Commemoration of Bishop Jeremy Taylor, on 12 August, 2020, for the The Grosvenor Chapel in the Parish of Mayfair. Officiant and Preacher: The Revd. Canon Alistair Macdonald-Radcliff To hear please click on the link below: https://soundcloud.com/user-140188366/evensong-sermon-commemoration-of-bp-jeremy-taylor-12-august-2020 Prelude: the Corrente from Bach’s Cello Suite no. 1 in G major_BWV 1007, transcribed for the Viola, … [Read more...]