Anglican Music

A discussion of Anglican hymnody, chants and other service music in the broader context of liturgical Christian music. Also includes a broader consideration of Anglo-Catholic liturgy and the associated church (re)organization of the American Continuing Anglican movement.

Thursday, April 18, 2013

A funeral for a Baroness

Wednesday was the funeral for Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013), Britain’s second greatest prime minister of the 20th Century (after Churchill)...

Sunday, April 7, 2013

Saving the next generation of Anglo-Catholics

Today we attended the closing service for the annual youth retreat of the San Diego Anglicans. Nearly 50 teens from the San Diego ACNA pari...

Sunday, March 3, 2013

ACNA needs repentance even more than TEC

Note update based on October 2013 revised ACNA liturgy. For Lent 2, the RCL reading was Luke 13:1-9, where Jesus says “unless you repent,...

Wednesday, February 13, 2013

Ancient Penitence

For the first time in many years, I began Ash Wednesday with a service and the imposition of ashes. (In previous years, the only service I c...

Tuesday, December 25, 2012

Let us be merry, our saviour is borne

Writing on the Catholic blog First Things, Matthew Schmitz remarks on why in English we say Merry (and not Happy) Christmas: Christmas is ...

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