tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post8755988569371604949..comments2023-12-24T11:20:38.708+00:00Comments on The Muniment Room: The Anglican PatrimonyTtonyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15185875893212146794noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-68338318636618425552010-01-11T23:19:00.252+00:002010-01-11T23:19:00.252+00:00unstatistical sampling:
Convents of nuns singing v...unstatistical sampling:<br />Convents of nuns singing vispers esp in a latinbased language:doubleplus good<br />Parishsister X(an otherwise Iam sure very holy woman) failing to lead any but three good ladies in wavery sopranos in ANY singing in a catholic church, to the detriment of so much as an attempt to sing by any men but those with rather serious problems....<br />ANy anglican could do better.( Wow: loverly thought : a catholic pilgrimage, say, belting out Jerusalem like they were gonna do jerico's walls wi'the sound - alonger faith v our fathers, prhpas : dreams are free, aint they?)<br /><br />And <br />I don't WANT ANY HYMS AT ALL, hardly. From anywhere.<br /><br />This whole modern (1960<)emphasis on hyms aint catholic:<br />"Hyms make the service".<br />It aint "a service" <br />It's mass.Mike Cliffsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06405021835510775527noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-16037704228530101652010-01-11T19:59:53.252+00:002010-01-11T19:59:53.252+00:00Living in driving distance of Oxford, I can testif...Living in driving distance of Oxford, I can testify that sung Vespers (at the Oratory) is a wonderful experience. It is not as instantly accessible as Evensong, you do need to know your psalms, but it is profoundly moving.<br /><br />Evensong has its merits too and I think we could have a place for it.<br /><br />How about sound "Cathedral schools" where choristers learn to sing proper? That would be a useful part of the Anglican patrimony to absorb too.<br /><br />Anglicanism also seems to contain the last vestiges of our rural Christian heritage. When was the last time you saw a Catholic priest bless a hunt? When was the last time you saw a Catholic priest bless the fields and the crops? I've seen Anglicans do these recently and felt nearly jealous that they were so connected with the land and its people.Ritahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15120333351409730480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37512247.post-49943933972024027872010-01-11T15:36:31.407+00:002010-01-11T15:36:31.407+00:00In terms of genuinely Anglican Patrimony, I'd ...In terms of genuinely Anglican Patrimony, I'd definitely agree with you with regard to (Book of Common Prayer) Evensong.<br /><br />With regard to Anglo-Catholic patrimony, I'd make that Evensong-and-Benediction (Benediction being a part of Catholic Patrimony which we seem to have abandoned - often in favour of an additional Sunday evening Mass, and which Anglo-Catholics have very often retained). <br /><br />They could also usefully bring The English Hymnal to use in place of the (mostly pretty awful) modern Catholic hymn-books.<br /><br />And they can leave behind liberal Protestant theological journals - though I'm afraid that liberal Protestant theology became fully absorbed into the bloodstream of Catholic academic theology some time ago.Markhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15285355080459130149noreply@blogger.com