Showing posts with label J.M. Neale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label J.M. Neale. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2025

No doubt: Everyone's favorite St. Thomas hymn

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The first Sunday after Easter is often called “low Sunday,” or sometimes as “Doubting Thomas Sunday.” Since the first English prayer book in...
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...
Sunday, January 5, 2020

On the Twelfth Day of Christmas Carols

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Today was both the 12th day of Christmas, and the last service of Christmastide. As with most Anglican churches, our music director had to s...
Sunday, April 28, 2019

Thomas, John, Jean and John

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I previously wrote about the quintessential “doubting Thomas” hymn, “O sons and daughters let us sing” (H40: 99; H82: 206). The English tra...
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 ...
Friday, April 19, 2019

Fortunatus and Neale teach us about the cross

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Some of the oldest hymns in the Anglican canon are by Fortunatus, the 6th century cleric who was the leading Latin poet of his era — the fir...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

Faithful Saint Matthias

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The red-letter feast of Saint Matthias is designated for February 24 in every American Book of Common Prayer, the same date designated by th...
Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Veni Emmanuel out of sync thanks to Hymnal 1982

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Differences between hymnals — either in updates or between dominations — usually cause confusion due to the change in words. Differences in ...
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Little-known ancient Advent hymn: Come thou, redeemer of the earth

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With Advent starting Sunday, Neale's hymn “Come, thou Redeemer of the earth” seems perfectly suited to the season. It is well known to E...
Friday, November 16, 2018

Rev. John Mason Neale, D.D. (24 Jan 1818 – 6 Aug 1866)

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On Wednesday, I gave a campus ministry talk on the influence of J.M. Neale, adapted from my recent research . Below is the handout I distrib...
Wednesday, November 14, 2018

New research on John Mason Neale

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My first papers on church music were published last month, and one is now online. Both are on John Mason Neale, who — as I mentioned in Jan...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

Bicentennial of John Mason Neale

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Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of John Mason Neale, the greatest hymn translator of the 19th century and a pioneer of the Anglo...
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, December 22, 2013

Golden Age of Christmas Carols

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Every reader of this blog knows about the importance of the Tractarian (Oxford) movement of 19th century England in revival traditional hymn...