tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post6042048103854609613..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Instant canonisationFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-43981949175834319112021-04-20T02:48:23.094+01:002021-04-20T02:48:23.094+01:00I've never known my own pastor here in our lit...I've never known my own pastor here in our little corner of America to be an Anglophile (not that there's anything wrong with that, a la Seinfeld!), but I would hazard the guess that he would not add, nor subtract, anything to the liturgy without the consent of our ordinary Bishop Michael. So I assume that all the parishes in our OCA diocese included "Prince Phillip" (right Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06614993047021893718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-80161767230267030812021-04-19T14:08:19.326+01:002021-04-19T14:08:19.326+01:00Thank you, Mr. Jesse, for your interesting comment...Thank you, Mr. Jesse, for your interesting comments on W.J. Birkbeck. There is a story that he was on a train in Russia accompanying Archbishop MacLagan of York when the train was stopped by a party of monks very keen that the great English Archbishop should venerate a particularly holy icon. Birkbeck was not at all sure that the Archbishop would be up for this, so, thinking quickly, he Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-70593000786137317692021-04-18T22:17:56.735+01:002021-04-18T22:17:56.735+01:00(Part 3 of 3)
The Contakion for the Departed appe...(Part 3 of 3)<br /><br />The Contakion for the Departed appears again in connection with the death of Queen Victoria herself. We read as follows in John Wolffe, <i>Great Deaths: Grieving, Religion, and Nationhood in Victorian and Edwardian Britain</i> (Oxford: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, 2000), pp. 79-80:<br /><br />"Within an hour of his mother's death in 1901 Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17809446580681184264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-66770384620827598882021-04-18T22:17:04.726+01:002021-04-18T22:17:04.726+01:00(Part 2 of 3)
We learn from a letter to Lord Hali...(Part 2 of 3)<br /><br />We learn from a letter to Lord Halifax dated October 12, 1898, that Birkbeck made further translations from Russian musical sources and that he hoped that these would win the favourable notice of Queen Victoria (<i>Life and Letters</i>, p. 85):<br /><br />“I have been so desperately busy getting some Russian music ready for the Queen. Princess Beatrice wrote to Parratt toJessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17809446580681184264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-15607286944277132932021-04-18T22:16:25.897+01:002021-04-18T22:16:25.897+01:00With your permission, Father, in the hope that the...With your permission, Father, in the hope that they may be of interest to your readers, I here reproduce some notes on the "Russian Contakion for the Departed" that I made in advance of a lecture I gave in 2013 on Anglican liturgical borrowings from Eastern Orthodoxy. I've divided these into three parts, to satisfy the character limits imposed by blogspot.com.<br /><br />(Part 1 of Jessehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17809446580681184264noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-30982845961512595202021-04-17T20:28:05.220+01:002021-04-17T20:28:05.220+01:00Pace Fr Edward's comments, I've always und...Pace Fr Edward's comments, I've always understood that prayer for the departed in the Church of England was given impetus by the slaughter in World War I, and by the grieving that followed.Simon Cottonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00067246172213711263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-135370428874157552021-04-17T17:47:31.608+01:002021-04-17T17:47:31.608+01:00To those who have been present when the Ukrainian ...To those who have been present when the Ukrainian Catholic Church sing the Our father and also the Creed knows full well the Kievan Longing in the Urkraniam tones, which by<br />being claimed by moscow as its own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-85039664773838408232021-04-17T14:32:12.552+01:002021-04-17T14:32:12.552+01:00I thought I might offer this, which is really on t...I thought I might offer this, which is really on the theological and pastoral importance of gentleness in interpretation and generosity in wiggle-room. Its nothing many don't know already, but I think that the liberal (not-liberal) Roman authorities could learn a thing or two. <br /><br />If are to judge the belief of a religious system by its official liturgical prayer, then it is clear thatFr Edwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10747558367805466619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38661692197367481592021-04-17T10:09:19.485+01:002021-04-17T10:09:19.485+01:00In the service of choral evensong broadcast twice ...In the service of choral evensong broadcast twice on BBC Radio 3, following His Royal Highness’s death, not only were there explicit prayers for the repose of his soul, drawn from the Catholic liturgy, but even a prayer implying that his soul could not be saved without our prayers, which seemed to me heterodox.Ben Whitworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00499311491843942923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-58791535512876703722021-04-17T09:50:37.247+01:002021-04-17T09:50:37.247+01:00One of the things I found most difficult as an Ang...One of the things I found most difficult as an Anglican was the terrible gulf between the living and the dead. Catholicism came as a glorious reunion. Compton Pauncefoothttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07074781415142746220noreply@blogger.com