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Itinerant priest offering Mass to miners...
Prayer of Intention before Mass...
I intend to offer this Mass and the consecration of the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ, according to the use, order, and discipline of the Holy Catholic Church; to the honour of Almighty God and of all the Church triumphant; to the benefit of myself and of all the Church militant and expectant; and for all those who have commended themselves to my prayers both in general and in particular; and for the good of the whole state of Christ's Church, Holy and Catholic. Amen.
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| Liturgy: The Glory of the Mass |
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"At the heart of it all is the eucharistic action, a thing of absolute simplicity—the taking, blessing, breaking and giving of bread and the taking, blessing and giving of a cup of wine and water, as these were first done with their new meaning by a young Jew before and after supper with His friends on the night before He died. He had told his friends to do this henceforward with the new meaning “for theanamnesis” of Him, and they have done it always since.
Was ever another command so obeyed? For century after century, spreading slowly to every continent and country and among every race on earth, this action has been done, in every conceivable human circumstance, for every conceivable human need from infancy and before it to extreme old age and after it, from the pinnacles of earthly greatness to the refuge of fugitives in the caves and dens of the earth.
Dom Gregory Dix, The Shape of the Liturgy
German Mass in a bomb-ravaged cathedral...
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ANGLICAN GRADUAL AND SACRAMENTARY: This is a simply fantastic labor of love. The online resource is something like the Anglican Missal, in that it provides the traditional anthems (sometimes called the minor propers) and special prayers and other texts, but it is designed to be used with the 1979 Prayer Book, Lesser Feasts and Fasts, and the Book of Occasional Services, and it provides not only traditional language but contemporary English and Spanish.
The Rev'd Richard Lischer, a Lutheran minister, reflects on his new worship space and whether they have an Altar or a Table... |
The Splendor of External Worship is a sermon given at the Golden Jubilee of St. Agnes parish in New York City, 1923. In this sermon, the Rt Rev'd John P. Chadwick provides wonderful insights into the nature and necessity of proper and beautifully ordered ceremonial.
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In Defense of "Lord" in Liturgy by James R. Adams, President, The Center for Progressive Christianity in which he argues, "I feel that discarding 'Lord' is a mistake. For me, substituting 'God' for 'Lord', as some liturgists are doing, compounds the error." |
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| The Te Deum |
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Solemn Te Deum according to York Use |
The Te Deum
"Do we all holy rites;
Let there be sung 'Non nobis' and 'Te Deum;'
The dead with charity enclosed in clay:
And then to Calais; and to England then:
Where ne'er from France arrived more happy men."
Henry V
The Te Deum is often sung on Trinity Sunday - the Sunday after Pentecost - at the end of the Mass or at the end of Evensong. Sometimes this is a "Solemn Te Deum," and two thurifers stand on either side of the altar and swing the thuribles throughout the the song, and bells are rung and incense splendidly rises. Glorious.
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