Quintet
Peter Dutton introduces five Requiems to which you ought to listen When I was a treble in Magdalen college choir, my favourite service of the year was the All Souls’ Day Requiem. Many of my fellow choristers considered it [...]
Ghostly Counsel
Essentials (In the new normal) Andy Hawes As the pandemic continues to shape the way we live I find that I spend a good part of the week on either Zoom, Face time or Skype in the exercise [...]
November
William Davage considers the month of remembrance Since my days of morbid adolescent introspection November has been my favourite month. There is the something about its wistful melancholia, its romantic charm that is, deeply satisfying. In those far off [...]
The Virgin Mary, the Virgin Queen and the Story of Salvation
Tony Hodgson considers the bequest of Mary After a year like no other in living memory, we have arrived at Advent in this year of our Lord 2020. A penitential season that derives its name from the Latin adventus meaning ‘coming.’ [...]
Send down your spirit
Jeremy Haselock explains the place of the Eucharistic Epiclesis in Common Worship Father John Gayford is to be thanked for drawing our attention to the history and significance of the epiclesis in the Eucharistic Prayers of the Church over [...]
The Centre Cannot Hold
William Davage wonders where compromise gets us St John Henry Newman may have outlined his understanding that The Church of England is a Via Media between Rome and Geneva, between the Early Fathers of the Church and Luther and [...]
Servants of the Lord
Richard Bastable explains the ministry of the deacon The ordination of deacons in the Book of Common Prayer does not direct a sermon to be preached at the ordination itself. Were we to be following that rite, you could [...]
Touching place
S MARY, WESTON ZOYLAND, SOMERSET Being Somerset, Weston Zoyland has one of those splendid Perp. towers with niches for statues of saints and pierced stone in the windows. Built of steel-blue lias, this one is a bit taller than [...]
Faith of our fathers
Arthur Middleton on the signs of identity crisis The Loss of Root and Idiom A creeping Anglican identity crisis has been evident in various ways for some time.In 1949 Henry McAdoo(1 H. R. McAdoo, The Structuzre of Caroline Moral [...]
“Began purple and black socks.”
Eleanor Relle on Mrs Scudamore and the Green Altar Cloth Knitting, sewing and the care of textiles were the element – or one of the elements - in which Frances Scudamore lived and moved, and this diary entry of [...]