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Friday, July 14, 2006

The Mandate is out!

Yesterday at lunch Fr. Daniel gave me a copy of the latest Mandate (a bi-monthly publication of the Prayer Book Society), which had arrived that morning. It contains the fourth of his interesting six-part series on the 1940 Hymnal. The focus this time is on the Order for Holy Communion and the special provisions for it in the Hymnal, #701-724, with the 1961 Supplement adding #747-758.

There are treasures here in our Hymnal of which I suspect the vast majority of us are simply unaware, not to mention history (until now I did not even know there was a 1961 Supplement!). Fr. Daniel is doing an excellent job of bringing awareness of them to us at St. Bartholomew's in various ways -- through these articles, through choice of hymns, and not least of all the Girls' Choir.

There's a lot to digest here, but I am also greatly looking forward to next month's article on Morning and Evening Prayer.

posted by Continuing Home @ 8:05 AM  

5 Comments:

  • At 3:48 PM, Blogger Joshua said…

    Continuing Home -
    This actually has nothing to do with this post, but I was excited to see that you are in 'Wu-vill.' I hail from Shoreline myself. My wafe and I are in Boston now, but miss Seattle terribly. Cheers and enjoy the best time to be in WA.

     

  • At 4:35 PM, Blogger Continuing Home said…

    Joshua, I had wondered about the Seattle--Boston connection. Come on by, if you're ever in the area!

     

  • At 6:17 AM, Blogger Joshua said…

    I was wondering, having been reading Fr. Gordons page, as well as yours and others, if you could tell me more about what 'continuing Anglicanism' is. I am still a bit new to all this, and so these finer distinctions are still lost on me.
    Thanks a ton, and for the invite.
    Cheers

     

  • At 12:21 PM, Blogger Continuing Home said…

    "Continuing Anglican" is a term for the Anglican churches formed by those who left the Episcopal church (many in 1977, per the Affirmation of St. Louis, here: http://st-bartholomews.org/bookshelf/index.html).

    I don't know when the term was developed, nor by whom, but I have always taken it as a description of these churches, to wit, they are continuing in the same direction they always have, whereas (P)ECUSA/TEC took a sharp turn. (This was exactly my feeling when I went from PECUSA to the APCK -- my church had left me.)

    People who remember the old PECUSA services are pleasantly surprised when they encounter us (we use the 1928 Book of Common Prayer). A year and a half ago we had a visitor who was in tears by the end of the service -- she recognized the church she had grown up in. (She's now a staunch member.) I remember another couple of visitors recently; one, who had been here before, was telling the other this was just like it used to be.

    The term "Continuum," which you'll also see, is a sort of sad pun -- it relates to "Continuing" but also to the fractures that have developed, so that now there are several large "jurisdictions" (of which ours, the APCK is one) and a number of little, sometimes oddball, groups.

    There is always thought of reconvergence, and in fact there are ongoing discussions (though mostly out of the limelight) of same, but it will be a slow matter. Two groups, the REC and the APA, are in a slow process of merging, though I've just learned it may be stuck on some point. (The REC actually left PECUSA in the late 1800s, the APA is one of the 1977 group I believe.)

    You can find links to these groups here: http://trad-anglican.faithweb.com/#provinces

     

  • At 1:17 PM, Blogger Joshua said…

    I agree that there needs to be some kind of protocal. The way that it seems to be done now is for the original poster to answer questions and respond to comments within the 'post a comment' context. I don't think this works well though, because I ask a lot of questions and make a lot of comments and then forget where I was when I made them. I think what you did was one of the best ways to go about it: comment that you have a response on my blog, or actually come over to mine and respond. The former is better though in that it allows others to benifit from the conversation. So yeah, just let me know if you respond to anything that I post as a comment. Thanks and Cheers

     

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