Fine Print? What fine print?
Pentecost 12/Trinity 11/Ordinary Time 18 – Tuesday
Memoria of St. Dominic – founder of the Dominican Order, religious
Found this while scanning through blogs. In particular on Kyle’s.
In short: ROFLMAO
Yesterday was interesting when I went for Mass at All Saints Anglican on Wickham Terrace in the CBD during lunch for the first time in about 6 months. It’s always a bit disconcerting there because the liturgy used there isn’t strictly taken from the BCP. And it certainly isn’t taken from the “standard” Australian Anglican prayer book, A Prayer Book for Australia (APBA).
Instead it’s taken from The Anglican Missal, which is as you can probably guess, an Anglo-Catholic prayerbook used within strongly Anglo-Catholic parishes in the various autonomous Anglican churches around the world. APBA is very familiar to me as the Eucharistic prayer (in Order One of the Eucharist) is substantially the same as the rite that the Chinese Methodist Church in Australia uses (and our ritual for the Eucharist is taken pretty much from the old 1965 United Methodist Book of Worship). Even Order Two is familiar enough.
But participating in yesterday’s Eucharist at All Saints takes one back to the old Church of England rite pre-AD1662, with elements of the Sarum Rite present in it as well as there being a very strong Catholic element in it.
It was great to read and pray along with the priest, the Eucharistic prayer where the intercession of those in the Church Triumphant (which includes Our Lady – Holy Mary, Ever-Virgin and Theotokos) is asked for alongside the prayers and intercessions of those of us here on earth in the Church Militant (click here for an explanation of the two terms).
Heck, the way the altar in the side chapel was set up, it reminded me of photos I’ve seen of RC churches, pre-Vatican II with the Tridentine setup and the Gospel being read on the right hand side of the altar (when facing the congregation) and the OT readings and Epistle being read on the left hand side of the altar. Complete with altar cards as well. And then, like us in CMCA, the elements are offered up with the priest facing the altar/Lord’s table rather than in current Anglican and Roman Catholic practice with the priest/minister being “behind” the altar and facing towards the congregation.
But enough of this from me. Have to get my head into gear and finish up asking people to help out with playing instruments for CMCA-EMP’s Church Anniversary & Sacred Music Sunday service. While there is no element of traditional sacred music (i.e. chant, etc) on this Sunday, we’ll have to make do with hymns, some modern stuff and one helluva transcription by Max, of “Great Is The Lord Almighty” by Dennis Jernigan with a fairly decent sized choir, myself singing the solo melody line and the kids in Sola Gratia (our church’s mini orchestra, minus Nathan who’s in Beijing playing in the orchestra for the Olympics and Christel, who’s followed her brother and her parents over to Beijing for the Olympics) who are sounding bloody great at the last practice we had last Sunday after the morning service was over.
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Things I’m listening to now?
Simply beautiful music by The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz. Even better is that the entire night service of Completorium (Compline) has been recorded beautifully and in Latin according to the pattern set out by St. Benedict in his Rule. Meaning that tonight, I will be using the chant tones for compline as well as the Latin text for compline too. And not only tonight, but every other night when compline is prayed before the “Great Silence” begins.
Curtis Stephan’s Sacred Revolution
I am seriously going to have to attempt to chord out “Benediction” from this album of Curtis’ by ear. “In Paradisum” is also great. I am seriously already planning music for my funeral around these two modern renditions of elements within the liturgy of the Church. Not that I’m morbid or anything, but these two will work very nicely alongside other pieces that I’ve picked out from typical chant (like the “Libera me”) and most of John Rutter’s “Requiem”. Typical Protestant funeral for me? No way, give me something more along the lines of a Missa pro defunctis anyday.
+ Pax,
bf 2244hrs
