Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Easter. Show all posts
Friday, April 18, 2025

The most famous C&E oratorio

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Virtually all Anglicans know Handel’s most famous sacred work — which is probably the most famous long-form sacred work ever written in Engl...
Sunday, March 31, 2024

How John Mason Neale helps us celebrate Easter

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This morning, for family reasons we ranged afar from our normal parish, worshipping at an Anglo-Catholic ACNA parish. (Yes, they exist outsi...
Monday, April 22, 2019

The Day of Resurrection

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Among the canon of Anglican hymns for the Feast of the Resurrection is, appropriately enough, “The Day of Resurrection,” a hymn translated ...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Singing ancient Easter testimonies

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Theologically, Easter is the greatest Christian feast, the culmination of the Christian year. It is also a great opportunity for mission, si...
Sunday, May 5, 2013

Come, ye faithful

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One of my favorite hymns for the Easter season is “Come, ye faithful, raise the strain”. It’s a perennial favorite for many congregations (a...
Sunday, April 8, 2012

True to Mrs. Alexander

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Today we attended Easter Services at the most Anglo-Catholic of San Diego’s ACNA parishes, Holy Trinity Anglican Parish of Ocean Beach. The...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Celebrating our Risen Lord

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There are a wealth of wonderful Easter hymns to celebrate the resurrection of our Lord. How to choose from them all? Based on fond childhood...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

Easter music: It’s about the Resurrection!

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From nearly 20 centuries of Christian music, we have Gregorian chants going back 1400 years , and 900 years for the Sarum Rite from the cath...
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Monday, March 24, 2008

So give three cheers

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Although best known as the composing half of 19th century Britain’s dominant light opera partnership, Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan began his ...
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Saturday, April 7, 2007

Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Easter contribution

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For decades, Easter for me has been associated with one particularly majestic tune by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958)....