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Divine Worship: Sexagesima

30 Saturday Jan 2016

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Saint Paul (Italy, ca. 1575-1600), The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, MD

The Second Sunday before Lent is also known as Sexagesima, marking as it does the sixty days that remain before the celebration of Easter. With the pre-Lent season introduced last week, this Sunday continues our preparations for the start of Lent. In the Latin Church this follows the pattern of liturgical penitence established at Septuagesima, articulated by the suppression of the Gloria in excelsis and the Alleluia, and by the use of violet vestments. In the East, this Sunday is known as Dominica Carnisprivii, or Meat Fare Sunday, introducing as it does the first level of abstinence for the faithful (in this case, meat) in preparation for Great Lent.

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Divine Worship: Conversion of Saint Paul

25 Monday Jan 2016

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Conversion of Saint Paul, Holy Comforter, Washington, D.C.

The Feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul provides an interesting insight into the textual sources of Divine Worship: The Missal. Two options are given for the Introit. The first, given in Divine Worship as Gaudeamus, is taken from the Missale Sarisburiense, or Sarum Missal. Here it is entitled Lætemur in omnes, and the translation given in Divine Worship appears to be that of the 1906 English Hymnal. Percy Dearmer, one of the editors of the hymnal, was amongst those seeking to preserve certain Sarum customs within Anglicanism, sometimes in opposition to a perceived Romanisation.

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Homily for Sunday III of the Year

24 Sunday Jan 2016

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Ten Commandments (Henry Lee Willet, 1965), Saint George, Arlington VA

Ezra read plainly from the book of the law of God, interpreting it so that all could understand what was read. (Nehemiah 8: 8)

Four hundred and fifty years before the birth of Christ, in the era of the Roman Republic, the two groups of people living in Rome were the Patricians and Plebeians. The Patricians were essentially the aristocratic families of Rome, concerned with the governance and administration of the City, whilst the Plebeians were the common folk, many of whom worked in service for the Patricians, enabling the great City to operate on a daily basis. The Patricians, as the intellectual and educated class, wrote and administered the law of the City, whilst the Plebeians were merely subject to it. It may seem peculiar to us with the benefit of hindsight, but the Plebeians, though bound by the law, were not aware of exactly what the law was or how it was to be kept, and so they  eventually demanded (and won) the chance for the law to be promulgated and explained to them, in order that being aware of it they might abide by it more fairly and conscientiously. The result of this was the publication of the first body of Roman laws, known as the Twelve Tables: great bronze tablets that were displayed in the public space of the Roman Forum, in order that the plebs, that is the people, might be able to see, read, and begin to understand the law under which they were to live their daily lives. Continue reading →

Divine Worship: Septuagesima

23 Saturday Jan 2016

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The Arma Christi of John de Campeden, Hospital of Saint Cross, Winchester

As we have already seen, Divine Worship: The Missal, and the calendars of the three personal ordinariates, maintains the pre-Lent season common to the Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican missals. This season is characterized by a certain liturgical penitence (as opposed to fasting and abstinence). In this first of three posts, we will examine the Sundays of the pre-Lent season, or Septuagesimatide, as they appear in Divine Worship: The Missal. 

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Divine Worship: Pre-Lent

19 Tuesday Jan 2016

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In keeping with the tradition of the Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican missals, Divine Worship: The Missal and the calendars of the personal ordinariates provide for the observance of the Pre-Lent season, or Septuagesimatide. In this article we will discuss the historical nature of this season, and look at how it is observed in the liturgical provision of Anglicanorum cœtibus.

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Homily for Epiphany II

17 Sunday Jan 2016

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Saint Peter, Caldwell Chapel, The Catholic University of America

Given for the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.

As we celebrated, this past week, the fifth anniversary of the canonical erection of the Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham, and look forward to the episcopal consecration of Monsignor Steven Lopes as the first bishop-ordinary of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of Saint Peter in a matter of weeks, it is fortuitous that we come this week to the annual observance of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. In Monsignor Lopes’s own words, the personal ordinariates are “ecumenism in the front row,” which is to say that the entire project of Anglicanorum cœtibus is one founded on the principles of ecumenism as understood and lived by the Catholic Church. At the threshold of this particular time set aside for prayer for the unity of Christians, it is worth revisiting the ecumenical mission of the ordinariates, not simply to comprehend more fully the structural and theoretical implications of that mission, but so that each of us—who make up the clergy and lay faithful of the ordinariates—might realize our own part in that work, and be better equipped to articulate that purpose to those who, in the words of Blessed John Henry Newman, are “shivering at the gates.”

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Divine Worship: Epiphanytide

13 Wednesday Jan 2016

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Adoration of the Magi (c. 1360), Christchurch Priory, Dorset

One of the distinctive features of Divine Worship: The Missal is the inclusion of certain titles and seasons in its liturgical calendar, that derive from the Anglican tradition as found in the various iterations of the Book of Common Prayer and the Anglican missals. An example of this is found in the fact that, after the celebration of Christmastide, Divine Worship moves into “Sundays after the Epiphany.” Here we will explore how these are found in the wider Latin tradition, and what is the character of this season in Divine Worship.

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