It is springtime and we have exciting new things on Episcopal Chant! @rpryor03.bsky.social and I have been hard at work improving this liturgical chant database that aims to make it easy for anyone to get up and chanting. Here's a thread of new stuff: 🧵 ⚓
With many thanks to the my colleague in this ministry, the great @arliecoles.bsky.social and the Association of Anglican Musicians, Episcopal Chant has expanded to include the Psalms, Book of Occasional Services, and more! ⚓
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I really appreciated "On Priesthood: Servants, Shepherds, Messengers, Sentinels and Stewards" by Stephen Cottrell
If you want to learn more about this trial and what it tells us about Americans and race 100 years ago at a time similar to our own, check out Elizabeth Smith-Pryor, Property Rites: The Rhinelander Trial, Passing, and the Protection of Whiteness. www.amazon.com/Property-Rit...
Come on...
Also, if you've never read or listened to this sermon by Mtr. Erika Takacs about the WORD chord, now's a great time. #9lc #wat www.saintmarksphiladelphia.org/sermons/2015...
And we got the chord. Merry Christmas from my apartment in Cleveland to all y'all! #9lc
As @sinden.org once said about "Adam lay ybounden," "the world probably doesn’t need any more settings of this text." Wisdom, let us attend - and I don't think that's the only text that we no longer need new settings of, either.
You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc
Someone I went to seminary with once compared Rutter to Andrew Lloyd Webber, which works because everything he did in the earlier part of his career is decent (like this), and then the stuff later is just bad to meh.
This Willcocks arrangement is a straight up BANGER with that third verse reharmonization for Herod. #9lc
John Scott was, in my opinion, one of the best hymn arrangers. This descant is lush and the reharm is great. No one did it like him. #9lc #wat
I completely get it - merry Christmas to you and yours, David!
I meant the Brits are right - not us.
This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️
And they're generally right! Except when they skip Verse 4 of O Little Town (which has the most important theological message in the hymn, tbh). #9lc
"Upon another shore and in a greater light &c" is one of the best-written prayers in English. What imagery! #9lc #wat
Featuring guest appearances by @danjoslynsiem.bsky.social, Twitter icon K.D. Joyce, the New Zealand Prayer Book, Matthew Olver of @livingchurch.bsky.social, and two of my favorite bishops in ++Rowan Williams and +J. Neil Alexander.
What do modular smartphones, Marilynne Robinson, and Wendell Berry have to do with discerning what common prayer looks like? After Monday's @earthandaltar piece, I suggest that "modular liturgies" could be the future of common prayer in #TEC.
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First half of a 2-parter up @earthandaltarmag.com on #Anglican liturgical Congregationalism: what does it look like, is it authentic to our tradition, and how do we reform it? Discussing ideas from, amongst others, @liturgy.bsky.social and the Tractarians.
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A great article in @earthandaltarmag.com today by Seminary of the Southwest's Academic Dean (and my former professor in college) Ben King on his experience contributing to Newman's positio and meeting Pope Leo XIV in October! You won't want to miss this. ⚓
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Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.
The 106th Archbishop of Canterbury is SARAH MULALLY, BISHOP OF LONDON. #anglican
They already have some, TBTG!
Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore opprest,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distrest,
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, "How long?"
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song.
- Samuel Stone (1839-1900)
Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866.
#tec
just to remind everyone, TEC is supposed to vote on approving Rite I in contemporary English next GC, so we've prepared some proposed renderings for them. I really hope this goes thru! ⚓️
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Let me see what I can whip up...
You said it better than I could, Hannah. Orthodoxy and orthopraxy can coexist together, and it's very clear that the church understands what the former is but not the latter, and we need to discover the latter, given... everything currently happening.
Really glad that someone, and especially you, wrote this article. I've found the response of many, this proprietety concern you discuss, to be disheartening. Even if we didn't endorse politicians directly, there is no reason why we shouldn't have a document like the USCCB's "Faithful Citizenship."
