A few years ago, a fellow priest (hi Jerry!) and I began using the phrase with which I’ve titled this post on websites and printed matter to refer to our traditional Anglican liturgy. We had realized that the word “traditional” had come to have some bad connotations…for example, to a Roman Catholic, it meant “all… [Read more…]
April 8, 2012
The Easter Greeting The traditional way Christians greet one another during the great fifty days of Easter, in various languages. English: Christ is risen! The Lord is risen indeed! German: Christ ist erstanden! Er ist wirklich erstanden! Greek: Χριστος Aνεστη! Aληθως Aνεστη! (Christos Anesti! Aleithos Anesti!) Russian: Христос Воскресе! Воистину Воскресе!… [Read more…]
March 12, 2012
Many have asked in other venues about the ACNA prayerbook revision process that is ongoing. For those who are interested, here is the guiding principles that committee is following, and here is the Ordinal they have produced. This Ordinal is the first published liturgy from that group. They plan to have a Eucharist produced by… [Read more…]
February 27, 2012
Here continues the discussion of traditional Anglican liturgy in contemporary modern English–without the blandness one generally finds in contemporary English. As the preface says: This book is intended for Anglicans regardless of ecclesial affiliation and churchmanship, yet it is the product of two converging paths. The first path is the desire of some for an… [Read more…]
February 23, 2012
The following was posted by another priest in another venue; in the hope of stimulating discussion, I am reposting it here for your comments. With the Ordinariate in place in the Roman Catholic Church and a growing Western Rite in Orthodoxy, the question of the day is whether there remains a role for traditional Anglo-Catholicism?… [Read more…]
February 21, 2012
Reprinted as a reminder. Here it is again–Happy Lent! Lent helps us enter the deepest and most important mysteries of what it truly means to be human—spirit and flesh fused together. Ash Wednesday is the beginning of Lent and remind us of our mortality. The ashes which are blessed and traced in the form of… [Read more…]
January 28, 2012
In 1783 the Anglican parishes in the infant United States were in severe disarray. There were no bishops on the continent, and some were even beginning to consider abandoning the very concept of Apostolic Succession. The priests William White and Samuel Seabury, a former Royal Army chaplain, exchanged a series of letters about the future… [Read more…]
January 19, 2012
I have recently had the opportunity to examine one of the liturgies in use by the Western Rite Orthodox and must admit to no little surprise. Let me begin with some simple factual observations. To begin with, the liturgy includes with it a traditional Gregorian chant setting, the Missa de Angelis. In terms of order,… [Read more…]
January 5, 2012
A common question amongst Anglicans these days—indeed, it has been for many years now—is “where ought we to go?” As a matter of fact, I ran an online discussion forum for over a decade where this was the most discussed topic. The landscape has changed quite a bit in the last couple years, however; not… [Read more…]
December 24, 2011
I thought I’d share a final “Advent-ish” type meditation for these last few hours of Advent. It is traditional to preach in Advent on the Four Last Things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. This particular meditation is about judgment. The Advent season collect makes it clear that at the last day, Jesus will come in… [Read more…]
May 18, 2012
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