tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post104776675014807808..comments2023-06-01T09:22:18.917+01:00Comments on Liturgiae Causa: Ashe-Wednisdaye...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-316291090810573572012-02-22T22:14:18.337+00:002012-02-22T22:14:18.337+00:00Thank you all for your comments.
Han, that's ...Thank you all for your comments.<br /><br />Han, that's what I tend to do! Last year I put myself through a slice of shop-bought (probably ''value'' range) hot cross bun spread over with some sort of immitation butter on Good Friday in the company of all manner of protestants. Awful, truly awful.<br /><br />Mike, arguably to read the Scriptures aloud without full purpose and reverence is a sin. As for me, I'll just have to see how I fair this Lente. I'm afraid I've already had a pint of ale :(Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-81132599898348445492012-02-22T21:26:22.316+00:002012-02-22T21:26:22.316+00:00I absolutely agree that we need dignified splendor...I absolutely agree that we need dignified splendor in the leading of worship, particularly when it comes to leading set prayers and (especially!) reading Scripture. It amazes me how many preachers, even strong ones, will read the Scripture as though they are bored, or in that "stained glass voice" that pays no attention to the meanings of the words (or, in some egregious cases, even the grammar of the text!). <br /><br />I am doing a very, very modest fast for the first time this Lent - only two days a week, and then only from midnight til 3 p.m. I saw it suggested on another Anglo-Catholic blog (forget which one) where the author said, "Surely we can all agree to do that much," and I thought, "Yes, surely!" Very few American Presbyterians know what to do with Lent exactly (and I don't count myself as one who knows full well what to do with it, either, but I'm trying to learn).Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02363158930596606463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-57387055282309400172012-02-22T18:58:19.556+00:002012-02-22T18:58:19.556+00:00I'm going to observe Lent the Greek way, where...I'm going to observe Lent the Greek way, wherein I ignore the fast for forty days, then go crazy with it during Holy Week.<br /><br />I don't know this for sure, but I think that the Ash Wednesday curses were not influenced by the Synodikon of Orthodoxy (see <a href="http://http://www.anastasis.org.uk/synodikon.htm" rel="nofollow">here</a>). The former seems to me to be an exhortation to virtuous conduct whereas the latter is about distinguishing between orthodoxy and heresy.Hanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11449078230379488480noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-83195847226563235082012-02-22T18:45:25.898+00:002012-02-22T18:45:25.898+00:00Michael Astley, thank you for your comment.
Cranm...Michael Astley, thank you for your comment.<br /><br />Cranmer was a masterful man, clever in the construction (and destruction) of Liturgy. As for Byzantine influences on the Prayer Book I'm afraid that is beyond my experience of Anglican liturgy.Patrick Sheridanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07995907911415177074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8192580971664762668.post-27640979716715020012012-02-22T11:24:06.565+00:002012-02-22T11:24:06.565+00:00I do wonder whether these cursings on the first da...I do wonder whether these cursings on the first day of Lent in the BCP have any relation to the anathemas pronounced by the bishop in his cathedral on the first Sunday in Lent in the Byzantine Rite.<br /><br />Those who have studied the earlier Prayer Books tell me that there is no doubt that they reflect Cranmer's Byzantine influence. He was, after all, a learned man.<br /><br />Do you, Patricious, or indeed anybody else, know more?Bbhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10989307876421460920noreply@blogger.com