tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20313717704400100462009-12-18T21:14:08.994+11:00זמרו משכיל • zammerû maśkîl • ψάλατε συνετως • psallite intellegenter • canite erudite • sing ye wisely • chantez vous avec intelligence • lobsinget ihm klüglich • sing ye praises with understandingJoshuahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070friar.erstwhile@gmail.comBlogger1163125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2031371770440010046.post-1876935844714251352009-12-18T19:28:00.004+11:002009-12-18T19:37:01.063+11:00

How to remember the order of the O-Antiphons?Well, in reverse order, the initials of the second word in each compose the phrase reverently put on the lips of Our Lord, the King Who is to come: Ero cras - "I shall be (with you) to-morrow". Holy Church, His Bride, therefore cries out, responding to His Advent in wondering joy, naming him with blessed titles drawn from Holy Writ, inspired by the

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What good news, just in time for my upcoming trip to Scotland, whence came my forebears five generations ago...According to that useful blog, The Anglo-Catholic, the Cardinal Archbishop of Edinburgh has granted a place of refuge to traditional Scottish Episcopalians in his city, by giving them a place to worship in the chapel of St Catharine at the Convent of Mercy in Tollcross, not far at all

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Please follow these links to last year's posts about the first of the Great O-Antiphons, which, as Guéranger asserted, contain the very marrow of the Advent liturgy:O Sapientia (the plainchant anthem, with a Baroque Magnificat to match);O Sapientia - II (the Latin text with an English translation, plus quotations shewing its derivation from Scripture passages).Now, I'd best say Vespers...

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The Nonjuror and Scottish Episcopalian liturgies of the eighteenth century, together with their daughter the U.S. Episcopalian, are noteworthy because, alone of all Protestant liturgies, they dared to use the words "we offer" in reference to the consecrated elements.Amusingly enough, it was neither the Nonjurors (in their 1718 Communion Office, using the phraseology of the Apostolic Constitutions

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While at one end of the Christian world, the Usagers among English Nonjurors were publishing (in 1718) a daring new liturgy with a central prayer drawn from Eastern models (taking the post-Sanctus from the Liturgy of St James, and the Anamnesis and Epiclesis from the Apostolic Constitutions), two years previously a daring new eucharistic prayer drawn from a Western model had been inserted into

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There are rites that would be valid, if celebrated by valid ministers. There are also invalid rites, unable to impart the Sacrament intended - or in some cases because they are not intended to impart the Sacrament! I've been rereading an old favourite of mine, Neale & Littledale's The liturgies of SS. Mark, James, Clement, Chrysostom, and Basil, and the Church of Malabar ([187-?]): in its first

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My friend Robert, himself studying for a doctorate in history by researching eighteenth-century Anglican laymen, alerted me to an online history of the Scottish Episcopal Church by one Gavin White, which proves most illuminating. It turns out that the much-vaunted Scottish Liturgy - the ne plus ultra of homegrown Anglican rites that were not transparent copies of the Roman Missal - was used only

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Staying on my Anglican theme (I am a man of enthusiasms), here are some decent hymns teaching the doctrine of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, the One Oblation of Christ made present in the Mass and offered up for all the living and the dead; first, three short hymns, and then two longer ones, of which my favourite is that by V.S.S. Coles, for its fullblooded declaration of doctrine:William H. H.

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One of the greatest tragedies to befall Christendom is the entire loss of the Church of North Africa, or of the Maghreb - "the Occident" - to use the Arabic term (the Copts and the other Christians of Egypt still hang on by a thread, despite cruelties daily perpetrated against them, as just last year - to attack the livelihood of the poorest - the slaughter of their pigs on the pretext of swine

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For those interested in Anglican liturgical history, particularly the Scottish Episcopalian tradition, stemming from the Nonjurors, and issuing in the American Episcopalian, and to compare and contrast their eucharistic theology with that of the Catholic Church - noting especially the different views of the Eucharistic Sacrifice, founded upon the disagreement over transsubstantiation - I would

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And now for something completely different...Taking a leaf out of Fr Z's cookbook - he was an accomplished chef ere he became a priest, in case readers aren't aware of quite why he so oft waxes lyrical about culinary delights - I must return to my occasional mentions of things edible and drinkable.It goes without saying that, like most other people these days in the idle West (for one cannot

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Herewith, as suggested by some comments appended to my posting below (People Look East?), I offer my own criticisms of the two Anglicanesque liturgies devised and used by some of the groups of Western Rite Orthodox nowadays. These are called the Liturgy of St Tikhon and "The English Liturgy".The Liturgy of St TikhonAs to the first rite: the Liturgy of St Tikhon, despite its name, was only drawn

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Time is eternity begun and still in progress. (Bl Elizabeth of the Trinity, O.C.D.)

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One of the greatest testimonies to the truth that the One True Church of Christ subsists in the Catholic Church under the Pope is the continuing flowering of heroic saints, whether holy martyrs (even in this century, too numerous to mention), priests after the Heart of Our Lord (such as St Josemaria Escriva), laymen living lives of perfection in the world (such as Bl Pier Giorgio Frassati), or

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If the incoming Anglicans (Anglicani ingressuri) bring to the communion of all Catholics a legitimate and worthy Patrimony - as obviously they must, since whatsoever goods, truths and beauties which uphold them and impel them to Catholic unity must be of value to all - then it behooves us to estimate and appreciate these worthy gifts.I have thought on this with reference to their liturgical forms

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After Mass this evening, on the way home, I was moved to sing that great hymn in honour of the Holy Name, Jesu dulcis memoria - it is so apt an illustration of the feelings arising in the soul communicated with the blissful Sacrament of His Body and Blood. I much recommend its use at Communion...Earlier, I'd stopt by to visit an old retired priest I know, to wish him an early happy Christmas,

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It being the solemnity of the Immaculate Conception, we had a larger turn-out than usual for our fortnightly chant practice and devotions at St Francis, Riverside. Compline and then Benediction were sung as usual, but in honour of the feast we added two Marian chants at the end: the Ave Maria and the Ave Regina cælorum.After church, supper: Fr Allan very kindly put on a get-together at the

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For some Anglicans, whether still in the Anglican Communion or somewhere in the Continuing spectrum of ecclesial bodies, the prospect of submission to the Pope is unpleasant; some instead look East.The Nonjurors, unsurprisingly, entered into correspondence with the Eastern Orthodox Patriarchs back in the early 18th century; equally unsurprisingly, the Orthodox indicated that the Nonjurors, who

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R/. br. Christe, Fili Dei vivi, * Miserere nobis.R/. Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserere nobis.V/. Q u i v e n t u r u s e s i n m u n d u m . * Miserere nobis.V/. Gloria Patri, et Filio, et Spiritui Sancto.R/. Christe, Fili Dei vivi, miserere nobis.It struck me forcibly to-day again, as yester-day (an illumination of my dark intellect from above, if you will, by some kind angel, even,

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Well is the Novus Ordo referred to as the Nervous Ordeal. As Bl Teresa of Calcutta said of one ungrateful beggar, I met Our Lord to-day in a most distressing disguise!As I am in the midst of a cashflow crisis, as I have to pay up front for my upcoming European idyll, I haven't gone down to Hobart and back to-day for the monthly Latin Mass there (the petrol would cost too much). Instead I went

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There was an Australian tract written some decade or two ago, entitled Rome or the Bush - signifying by this the choice of Catholics here to either adhere to Rome, or "be bushed", that is, lost in the wild, there to wander lone and witless ere they perish at the last.This title well sums up the ineluctable choice facing Continuing Anglicans, and their sympathizers within the Anglican Communion -

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I have a soft spot for Loreto, on account of the devout poet Richard Crashaw (c.1613-1649), who was known even in his Anglican university days at Cambridge, always the more Protestant of the two universities, as "Our Lady's chaplain", and, having fled Cromwell's Puritans, was received into the Church Catholic at Paris, and, coming first to Rome, was most fittingly appointed a canon of the Shrine

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I began this blog two years ago, on the feast of St Sabbas (to whose patronage I entrusted it). May the Lord at his intercession bless all who come by, that something here may be for their edification or at least for the maintenance of their good humour.

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To-day also marks the feast - in the traditional Calendar - of Peter of Golden Eloquence (406-450), sometime Archbishop of Ravenna. I am fond of him by reason of the example of his devotion to his patron saint, St Cassian of Imola, Peter's native town's great martyr, to whose shrine he returned when at death's dark door, to commend his soul to God by his intercession.Apparently, until 1729

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Having just risen from my prie-dieu, I thought I should note that to-day is the commemoration of St Barbara, and therefore my mother's name day (I reminded her this morning, to her surprise, and her chagrin when I further explained that the name means "female barbarian"!), who, as the modern Martyrology puts it, 'tis said to have been (fuisse traditur) a Virgin and Martyr at Nicomedia. The 1962

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