The Bi-Monthly Magazine of the Prayer Book Society MVolume 29, Number 6 andatNovember / DecemberE 2006
In This Issue Where can I find a church that uses the 1928 BCP? Page 2 b Editor’s Desk: The Anglican Birth Certificate Pages 3 & 4 b Strong light from Ephesians Pages 5 & 6 b Constancy within the Prayer Book Society Page 7 b Ordering Books from the PBS Page 8 b Book and CD Notes Page 9 b Ordering CDs from the PBS Page 10 b The Hymnal with the BCP Pages 11 & 12 b Advent and the Christian Hope Page 13 b Christmas Collects from Sarum Page 14 b AnglicanHave you examined the Anglican Birth Identity Certificate recently? Kyriakon & Ecclesia Page 15 b In the Crisis of Identity being faced by Anglicans, will knowing the place Where to buy the BCP and time of birth, as well as parentage, help? Page 16 Are too many Anglicans seeking to deny who they are? Is there insufficient zeal for unity in truth? See further pages 3-4, 5-6, 15 Where can I find a church that uses the 1928 Prayer Book? e list parishes that use the 1928 ishes that use the 1928 BCP. An excellent and also that folks are reading Mandate. BCP according to state or area, reference is the Directory of Traditional Some have written to tell us of parishes Wmentioning their ecclesiasti- Anglican and Episcopal Parishes, pub- that use 1928 that we have already listed. cal jurisdiction (Episcopal Church or one lished by the Fellowship of Concerned It might be a good idea to keep the issues of the “Continuing Churches”), and all of Churchmen. Please contact the editor, of Mandate that have this column to use their services, if from the 1928, or the ones Mrs. Jane Nones, 4800 Dupont Avenue for future reference. We can only list a that use the 1928 BCP. The Reformed Epis- South, Minneapolis, MN 55409 if you parish once. It is always a good idea to call copal Church uses a Prayer Book which would like to order a copy. For informa- first. Times and locations and personnel includes both the 1662 (Church of Eng- tion call (612) 824 3933. do change! The Fellowship of Concerned land) and much from the 1928. Readers have written to tell us of other Churchmen has a web site which lists Our knowledge of these matters is lim- parishes that use the 1928 Prayer Book. parishes that use the 1928 BCP. That is ited, so we would be happy to hear of par- It makes us glad to know of such places, another good place to check. New Mexico Albuquerque Deming Hobbs
St. Peter’s Church St. Augustine’s Holy Trinity (Holy Catholic Church -Anglican Rite) (Anglican Province of America) (Episcopal Missionary Church) Paseo del Norte & Eubank Northeast Birch & South 8th Street 200 East Lea Street Mailing Address: 8100 Hamilton N.E. Mailing Address: P. O. Box 2325 Mailing Address: P.O. Box 1946 Albuquerque, NM 87122 Deming, NM 88031 Hobbs, NM 88241-1946 505 822 1192 505 546 6340 or 536 3999 505 397 5185 or 394 2572 Sunday Holy Communion 9:00 am Sunday Holy Communion 10:30 am Sunday Holy Communion 10:00 am (1st & 3rd) The Rt. Rev. Winfield Mott, Rector The Rev. Thomas Kennann, Rector Morning Prayer (2nd & 4th) The Rev. Mark Bullard Gallup
Clovis St. John Evangelist (Anglican Church in America) St. James (The Episcopal Church) 114 East Coal Please write the Rev. Fr. David C. 1117 North Main Street Mailing Address: 408 East Green Kennedy, SSC, at 7231 Hearth Stone Mailing Address: P.O. Box 249 Gallup, NM 87301-6045 Ave., Boynton Beach, FL 33437-2920 Clovis, NM 88102 505 863 4805 if you know of parishes that use the 505 763 4638 Sunday Holy Communion 10:00 am 1928 BCP. Needless to say it will Sunday Holy Communion 8:00 am (4th) take a long time to list them all! The Rev. John T. Rollinson, Rector (All others Morning Prayer) Praise God for that!!! The Rev. Karl B. Knapp
The Mandate November / December 2006 • Volume 29, Number 6 Editor: The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon • Design/Layout: Boldface Graphics The Officers for the Year 2006 are: President: The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon • Vice-President: The Rev’d Fr. Edward Rix Treasurer: Dr. T. Herbert Guerry III of Georgia • Secretary: Mrs. Miriam K. Stauff of Wisconsin MANDATE is published six times a year by the Prayer Book Society, a non-profit organization serving the Church of God. All gifts to the P.B.S. are tax deductible. Recipients of Mandate are encouraged to send at least $28 each year to maintain the ministry. Editorial and all other correspondence: P.O. Box 35220, Philadelphia, PA 19128. Phone 1-800-PBS-1928. Postmaster: Please send address changes to the above address. andat Visit the websites of the Society: www.pbsusa.org & www.anglicanmarketplace.com. M Page E The Rev’d Dr. Peter Toon M.A., M.Th., D.Phil (Oxon) Reflections from the Editor’s Desk The Anglican Birth Certificate and Naturalization Papers here are in the world about eighty million sought. These reports are The Eames’ Report(s) of Anglicans, with the majority of active ones 1994, The Virginia Report of 1998 and The Windsor in Africa. In North America there are about Report of 2004. Ttwo million Anglicans, the majority of whom do not The first (TER) provided help to maintain a basic attend divine worship regularly. However, in both communion and identity through the crisis caused Africa and America, as well as in Asia and Europe, by first the ordination of women as priests and in the Anglican Family of Churches, a major, if then as bishops; the second (TVR) explained the not the major question, being asked publicly and meaning of communion and the role in maintain- privately is this: What ing such communion is Anglican identity? by “the instruments of And this basic question unity” so that there is is often presupposed in THE HOMILIES a global identity of fel- other questions being APPOINTED TO BE lowship; and the third asked such as: Does a READ IN CHURCHES (TWR) provided sug- single Anglican Prov- The edition of John Griffiths revised gestions as to how the ince have the authority In two Books of Homilies the Church of global communion to go its own indepen- England provided for clergy sermons to be could be maintained dent way in terms of read at Holy Communion. The homilies were through the crisis creating new doctrine written by Archbishop Cranmer and other caused by the sexual or new rites? And, Bishops in the middle of the 16th century innovations in North Does a congregation or and they provide both a major statement America, and other parish in one country of Basic Christianity and also an influential forms of disruption, have the right to choose example of the Gospel in plain English. by the development for its Father in God a Shakespeare heard these homilies often and of a stronger conciliar bishop who already has their influence is to be seen in his writing. polity, where there is a diocese in another Ian Robinson, an expert in the origins greater commitment of country? and development of the English language, the individual Province We have entered and a devout Anglican, has prepared this to all the other Prov- such a crisis in 2006 edition of one of the religious classics of the inces and so local inno- within the varied Angli- English Reformation. It makes an excellent vation is restrained. can Family of Churches Christmas present! There is an order form There is much of that none of us, who on page 8 or it may be ordered on line from value, especially in care about our religion www.anglicanmarketplace.com TVR and TWR, and all and want to please our Anglicans who wished Father in heaven, can to be informed of what any longer avoid this is happening to their question: What is Anglican identity? Whether Family would be wise to read them (as booklets we are in a parish of The Episcopal Church, or of they are published by Morehouse Publishing). In the Continuing Anglican Churches, or members my very recent 64 page booklet, Anglican Identity. of an overseas Province though living in North Keeping The Global Family Together, (Novem- America, this question is our question. ber 2006, Prayer Book Society of the USA), I have In recent years three major commissions, all engaged in depth with these reports. While I praise appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury on much that is in them, I also find them lacking in the advice of other Primates and bishops, have various important respects. One of these is that sought to provide information and principles by they put too much emphasis on what may be called which the Identity of Anglicans, Anglicanism and that form of civility and those values which are said the Anglican Way can be discussed and an answer to be needed for fruitful life in democratic coun- andat M Page E tries, especially in multi-ethnic and multi-religious come to fruition if the search is begun with, or at societies— such as tolerance, respect, and good- least includes in a significant way, the study of the will—and they do not place enough emphasis on Birth Certificate or Naturalization Papers—the the practice of the classic, biblical virtues—such Three Formularies. This message of recovering as humility, patience, love, and faithfulness (see roots and family tree is I think of major relevance further Galatians 5:22-23). Another is that they for several reasons. One of these is that there is now do not sufficiently emphasize that the attainment in existence a commission, appointed by the Arch- and maintenance of true communion in the local bishop of Canterbury and chaired by Archbishop church and between churches requires on our Gomez, which has just begun work on the draft- part much discipline of heart, mind and will under ing of an Anglican Covenant (as recommended Christ the Lord and in the power of his Spirit, as by The Windsor Report). As many voices as pos- well as taking unto ourselves the full armor of God sible, and as many pens and keyboards as possible, (see Ephesians 6). now need to make known loudly and clearly, yet In terms of Identity, what I judge to be the most graciously, that any statement of Anglican Iden- serious omission in the reports is any serious dis- tity must include the Birth Certificate/Naturaliza- cussion of knowledge of the Anglican Birth Certifi- tion Papers. To include this is logical, reasonable, cate or, if you prefer, the Anglican Naturalization necessary, wise and, I submit, is God’s will for the Papers. When anyone is in search of identity, of Anglican Way in its present crisis of identity. Fur- the family tree, or of origins, that person inevita- ther, I am reasonably sure that the majority of the bly searches for the appropriate birth certificate or Anglican Provinces around the world will welcome naturalization papers. this and if there is any opposition it will be from the I maintain that to appreciate the Anglican Way Provinces of the West! After all, the greatest use of and to understand Anglican Identity one must The Book of Common Prayer (usually the 1662 edi- surely be aware of and study the Anglican Birth tion ) by the greatest number in either the English Certificate (or Naturalization Papers). Now there language or in other languages is in Africa! is no doubt what is this Certificate and what are In pleading for, and arguing on behalf of, the these Papers. They are the three documents or Formularies as the necessary foundation of the texts that were written by the team of bishops Anglican Way in its post Reformation and post led by Archbishop Cranmer in the middle of the medieval form, I am well aware that there has been sixteenth century; and we now know them as: life and growth since 1550. Of course, we have to The Book of Common Prayer; The Thirty-Nine take into account how the Anglican Way has devel- Articles of Religion; and The Form and Manner oped through space and time. One major develop- of Making Deacons, Ordaining Priests and Con- ment is that one Province, the Church of England, secrating Bishops (all three of which are usually is now not alone but has over thirty other Prov- found bound together in authentic editions of inces which are in communion with her and she The Book of Common Prayer—1662, 1928 USA, with them. However, we must never forget what is 1962 Canada). All three are under the authority the family tree, what are the genes, from which we of The Word of God written, the Holy Scriptures. came and we need to look often at what is stated They are the unique, identifying documents of the on our Birth Certificate and Naturalization Papers, renewed Church of England, professing the Chris- so that we remain true to what we were in origin. tian Faith as Reformed Catholicism. They declare In Anglican Identity, I suggest that the new parentage and place and time of coming into being. Anglican Covenant needs in it a statement, fol- (Of course, the Church of England was not a new lowed by a short explanation, like the statement Church that began in the 1540s; rather it was the found in the Canons of the Church of England. renewed form of the Ecclesia Anglicana, which The doctrine of [the Church of England] is had existed for many centuries.) grounded in the Holy Scriptures, and in such I have described and examined this Birth Cer- teachings of the ancient Fathers and Councils tificate/Naturalization papers of the Anglican Way of the Church as are agreeable to the said Scrip- in my 64 page booklet, The Anglican Formularies tures. In particular, such doctrine is to be found and Holy Scripture (July 2006, Prayer Book Soci- in the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, the Book ety of the USA). This I commend to your study and of Common Prayer, and the Ordinal. it is available from www.anglicanmarketplace.com I hope that you will consider seriously the sub- or 1-800-727-1928. ject of Anglican Identity and that in doing so you In Anglican Identity I seek to show—in the find my essay, Anglican Identity, helpful in your context of the study of the three reports—that if consideration. (It is available from www.anglican- Anglicans today are ever going to agree on what marketplace.com or from 1-800-727-1928.) is the God-given identity, this agreement will only andat M Page E The Unique Vocation of the Local Church A message from the Epistle to the Ephesians to Anglicans concerning unity in truth and truth in unity he Windsor Report (2004), which has Spirit—just as you were called to the one hope become the most widely-read and influ- that belongs to your call—one Lord, one faith, ential Anglican report ever, begins with one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is Tthe vocation of the Church as that is given in The over all and through all and in all. (4:1-6) Epistle to the Ephesians. This meditation likewise We ask: What is the vocation given to this begins in the Epistle. people by God in this pagan city where they live Imagine a group of people meeting together in and assemble as a congregation of Jesus Christ? a large house or a meet- Their vocation is ing place in the ancient to be a truly unified city of Ephesus, the people, who are joined third largest city in the together in the Name Roman Empire, with a of the Lord Jesus and population of around by the Holy Spirit, who 200,000. See the group comes from the Father as made up of both men bringing the graces, and women and includ- gifts and virtues of the ing Jews, Gentiles, exalted Lord Jesus. We slaves, and citizens of learn that their genuine the Roman Empire. unity in sincere fellow- And amazingly they all ship, that is so crucially seem to be mingling important, is only pos- and relating as equals as sible by the exercise of they greet one another the virtues which were in the name of the Lord seen in the life and Jesus Christ. Listen to ministry of Jesus and them singing psalms which the Spirit makes together and praying available to those who to God in the Name of are “in Christ.” (In pass- Jesus Christ, the Jewish ing we note that these Messiah and Savior of virtues would not be the world. prized or commended Keep on listening as at all by the learned one whom they call a professors of ethics in presbyter and/or pastor is reading out aloud a Letter Asia Minor or Greece at that time. They would be sent to this fairly new and small congregation by seen as signs of weakness.) the apostle Paul, who has written it to them—and “Humility” is the opposite of pride and haugh- probably to other local churches—from prison in tiness of spirit; “meekness” is the opposite of self the early 60s. Allow yourself to be astounded by assertion and self justification; and “patience” is what the apostle states is the vocation of this con- long-suffering, the capacity to accept delay, trou- gregation in the will of God the Father. ble, tribulation or suffering with becoming angry I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to or upset. To these virtues is added that of “love,” walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which the determination and readiness always to do for you have been called, with all humility and gen- others what is truly for their good. “Bearing with tleness, with patience, bearing with one another one another…” suggests that St Paul assumes that in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit there are and will be frictions and strains and in the bond of peace. There is one body and one differences in this congregation (for after all he andat M Page E understands the presence of sin within even the is the perfect will of God. That which the Father baptized believer – see Romans 1-8), and thus each through his Incarnate Son the Lord Jesus Christ and all need to work hard at exercising the Chris- shall bring to fullness of reality at the End time, he tian virtues. In fact, all need to have a blazing zeal, now requires be made visible in each local church a profound eagerness, for true unity in Christ by through the real and true unity of all members as his Spirit—a unity that is not only “in spirit and the one body of Christ, living by the Christian vir- in truth” but is also really reflected in outward tues as guided and empowered by the Holy Spirit. behavior, activity and signs. That is, a unity which This is the true vocation of the local church and is bound together by the virtue of peace (which is out of it flow worship, mission, teaching, evange- not merely freedom from divisions and strife but is lization and discipline that are to the praise of the the presence of wholeness). Holy Trinity. The sevenfold formula—one body, one Spirit, In this age and sinful world, this ecclesial voca- one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one tion is completely and totally opposed by “the God and Father—relates the unity of the local world, the flesh [human nature in its sinful state] church to the unity of the whole catholic Church and the devil.” This is why Paul ends his Letter in and to the unity of God himself. The vocation of this way: the mixed congregation Be strong in the Lord in Ephesus to be one in and in the strength faith, hope and love, of his might…There- and at peace, which the THE ALTAR fore take up the whole apostle so passionately armor of God, that you believes in and asks for, SERVICE may be able to with- is integrated by him into stand in the evil day, the purposes of God for or and having done all, the whole creation, vis- to stand firm. Stand ible and invisible. THE ALTAR BOOK therefore, having fas- This takes us back The Holy Communion together with the tened on the belt of to “the calling” to Collects, Epistles and Gospels, and Prayers truth, and having put which the congrega- and Thanksgivings, with addition Prayers on the breastplate of tion has been called from The Book of Common Prayer righteousness, and, and was described in as shoes for your feet, that part of the Letter During December 2006 this fine volume, having put on the read before we began bound in red leather and printed in two readiness given by the to listen. This calling colors, is available for $150.00 rather than gospel of peace. In all is not to be united in $200.00. This is to encourage people to circumstances take up fellowship, worship buy it for their church, coffee table, and as the shield of faith, with and witness, and with- a Christmas present. There is an order form which you can extin- out internal divisions, on page 8 or you may call 1-800-727-1928. guish all the flaming simply because this is darts of the evil one, good in itself and pro- and take the helmet vides less headaches of salvation, and the for local leaders, visiting apostles and evangelists. sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God, No, it is (as Ephesians 1-3 make clear) the amaz- praying at all times in the Spirit, with all prayer ing, hard to believe, vocation of this church to be and supplication. (6:10-18) a part of God the Father’s working out and fulfill- The context in which the local church is to ing of his grand and vast design for ultimate unity become in practice what it is called to be by God through, in and by Jesus Christ, of the whole cre- the Father is one of constant battle, but one that ated order. This people in this pagan city is called the Lord Jesus has already successfully engaged in in their unity in the Spirit not only to prefigure the and been victorious. And he is around to guide and ultimate unity of everything in Christ but also to strength now. be its inception. Surely this is a unique privilege One thing we learn from this is that unity in and amazing vocation! Christ by the Spirit is neither an option nor sec- The place which the Father has assigned to this ondary to having orthodoxy in doctrine. It is a congregation is within, and is a part of, his plan of necessary quality of the body of Christ, the house- the ages—“according to his purpose, which he set hold of God the Father, and the temple of the Holy forth in Christ as a plan for the fullness of time, to Spirit. Thus the word of God in Ephesians is a call unite all things in him, things in heaven and things to Anglicans of all kinds to take most seriously on earth” (1:10). To serve God in his plan requires their duty to unite one with another in the bonds that this local church, and every local church, of love, peace and truth. andat reflect now that unity in Christ by the Spirit which M Page E The End Is Near! It’s getting towards the End of the Year 2006 and The Prayer Book Society needs to balance its books at year-end! he Society looks to readers of Mandate to In fact, as the crisis of identity deeply affects The be generous. Please help. Episcopal Church, so growing numbers of people Ever since 1971 there has always been in 2006 have been asking about their family tree, Twithin the Anglican (Episcopal) family in the their birth certification and their origins as Angli- United States, a goodly number who have consis- cans (Episcopalians), as they consider what to do tently given generously, according to their means, and where to go in these troubles times. They want to the work of The Prayer Book Society of the a Liturgy that is true to the content of Holy Scrip- U.S.A. as it has existed through various phases and ture and is not seeking to baptize modernity into faced different contexts. The Board of the Society God-language. is heartily thankful to our Lord for these people, All of a sudden as it were, the consistent mes- their gifts and their prayers. sage of the Prayer Book Society over thirty or so At the end of 2006 two long-time Board mem- years has become very relevant to many who for- bers—Mrs Marilyn Ruzicka and the Rev. Fr. Joe merly thought it was just old-fashioned religion not Falzone—are retiring after twenty or so years of credible today. And, further, people are discover- devoted service. They have seen changes both in ing that the overseas Primates, who are giving sup- the Board and in the Anglican Family. They remem- port to Americans in search of pastoral care, are in ber well the full churches in the late 1960s, the fact Bishops who are devoted to the classic Book experimentation with new liturgies in the 1970s, of Common Prayer, and that, in Africa, this book is the arrival of the new Prayer Book in 1976/1979, very widely used for worship (either in English or the major erosion in membership in The Episcopal in local languages). Church from the late 1970s, the formation of the It is as if The Prayer Book Society has been Continuing Anglican Movement in 1977, and the given a new lease of life and for this the Board is deterioration in The Episcopal Church over the last grateful to God. But these new responsibilities and thirty or so years. They also remember many faith- opportunities, which in real terms mean the Soci- ful and godly Episcopalians who have served the ety is doing much more than it did a decade ago, Lord faithfully during these troubles. Marilyn has all cost money. And the number of active financial indefatigable energy and vision for the cause she supporters has not kept pace with the increased loves; and Joe has a graceful spirit, bringing calm demands and expenditures, for the awakened and sweet reasonableness into any situation where interest has all happened suddenly, basically since he serves; but with this gracefulness there is also the shock felt by the consecration of Gene Robin- deep commitment to the classic Anglican Way. son in New Hampshire. They are both so glad that they are being replaced As a reader of Mandate, the Board requests you by two much younger persons who also are enthu- to consider seriously making a donation before the siastic for the use of the Common Prayer. end of 2006 to assist in this work of keeping Epis- The underlying issues and concerns deeply felt copalians and Anglicans aware of their doctrinal in 1971 by the founders of the Society are not that birth certificate, birthrights and privileges so that much different from those also deeply felt in 2006, they take seriously these high privileges in serving but the contexts are not the same. In 1971 it was the Lord today. whether the classic, inherited Book of Common It also asks you to note that The Altar Edition Prayer would be preserved intact in The Episco- of the BCP 1928 is going on “sale” during Advent pal Church or replaced by a book of varied ser- and this provides an opportunity for you to pur- vices with varied doctrines. In the event the classic chase a copy as a Christmas present for someone Prayer Book was sent to the archives and a new who will use it in home or church. The Homilies one, for which all kinds of excessive claims were is not on sale but this is also a splendid volume to made, was brought in, and to it, amazingly, the give as a Christmas present, for it is truly a clas- historic name of the classic Book was given. The sic of the Anglican Way, which (to continue the Prayer Book Society lost the battle to keep the clas- metaphor) is a commentary on the Anglican birth sic BCP as the official Prayer Book of The Episcopal certificate. Church; but, it has won the long drawn-out battle of keeping the same Prayer Book in print and in There is a form overleaf which you can use to use—so much so that there is a renewed interest in order the Book and send in a donation. Thank you it, especially in its doctrines and devotion, in 2006. for reading and considering this message. 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1-800-727-1928 or local (foreign) call 610-490-0648 The Hymnal, 1940 Anatomy of a Hymn If you are like most Churchmen at Worship on Metre is explained in numerical terms, as (86.86). a Sunday morning, you will open your hymnal to The numbers represent the number of text sylla- the number appointed, focus immediately on the bles in the hymn, for instance in Hymn 13 we have text, and prepare to sing your part while the organ- 8 syllables of text (“While-shep-herds-watched- ist plays once through the music to get the tune their-flocks-by-night) followed by 6 syllables of into everyone’s ears. As you do so, you are uncon- text (“all-seat-ed-on-the-ground”). This group of 8 sciously passing by a wealth of information printed and 6 syllables forms the first division of the text on the page before you, information which tells an of this hymn. Each verse of the hymn text is thus interesting story about the origin of the hymn and divided into two metrical statements of 8+6, or conveys tips on how best to perform it. eight syllables followed by six syllables. An English Admittedly there is so little time merely to find teacher identified this meter for me as one of the the right number and scan through the words standard ballad meters of English Poetry: alternat- once, while absorbing the tune from the organist’s ing lines of iambic tetrameter and trimeter for the By Fr. Daniel McGrath, introduction that any meaningful study of the sake of a little variety. B.A., M.Mus., S.T.B., hymn will have to be postponed for your private Why is it important to examine the Metrical D.Mus. devotional or study time! Structure of the Hymn before attempting to per- For my piece entitled “Anatomy of a Hymn”, I form it? Because it is important to know the ter- have chosen to feature a hymn for Christmas, rain of the hymn in order to determine where to which is found at Hymnal number 13, and set to take breaths, lifts or extra time for musical phras- two different tunes. The first is a tune called “Win- ing, before launching into the music. Musicians chester Old” and the second is called “Carol”, a tune who train professionally often hear in their les- which requires some rearranging of the structure sons and rehearsals that they are to consider the of the hymn in order to make it work. Right away larger units of musical structure and not focus too we notice something important about hymns: that narrowly on the music note-by-note. Bearing the is, a hymn consists of text and not of music! Sec- ‘big picture’ in mind definitely helps the performer ondly, a hymn can be set to different tunes, as long have a more flowing and beautiful performance. If as it works out metrically and as long as the tune one were to ignore the Metrical Structure, and just is appropriate in tone and mood. So, when we speak of a hymn, we are of course speaking of the words. We must understand that the tune or the “music” is of secondary importance to the text, for it is only the vehicle of the text. Let us take a look at Hymnal 13, to the First Tune, Winchester Old. The very first bit of text we see at the top of the score are the capital let- ters, C. M. These letters pertain to the meter of the hymn, and when spelled out, they stand for “Common Metre”. For an explanation of Common Metre, we turn to the Metrical Index on page 815 of The Hymnal, 1940, where we find that Common andat M Page 11 E take a breath, a lift or a break after each 8, then he name at the bottom-right has provided a para- would perform a rather chopped-up rendition of a phrase of an original text. The text of Hymn 13 is in hymn that is designed to flow smoothly. fact a paraphrase of a passage from Holy Scripture, As we proceed downwards on the page of hymn Luke 2:8-15. The paraphrasing of Scriptural texts 13, we next come to a line of small print directly was very common at the beginning of our hymnal above the musical staff: on the left side of the page tradition, for at the time there was more strict it says WINCHESTER OLD and on the right hand adherence to the BCP rubric allowing hymns and side it says Melody from T. EST’S Whole Book of Psalmes, anthems “in the words of Scripture or the Book of 1592. In fact, in the Hymnal you will always find Common Prayer”. The one who provided this para- the name of the tune on the top-left and the name phrase, Nahum Tate, was part of the Brady & Tate of the composer and/or source of the tune on the duo that produced the New Version of the Psalms by top-right. The tune Winchester Old first appeared Dr. Brady and Mr. Tate in 1700. His hymn “While in a book of Psalm shepherds watched settings by Thomas their flocks by night” Est, the Whole book appeared first among of Psalmes, pub- the 27 Hymns bound lished in 1592. In that with the 1789 Book book, the tune was of Common Prayer paired with a metri- of the American cal version of Psalm Church. To conduct 84, “How pleasant is searches for other thy dwelling place.” texts by the same In the back of Author, we find The Hymnal, we find another index in the an Index of Tunes back of The Hymnal, (beginning with page beginning on page 819). This is useful 807, the Index of for finding hymns by Authors, Transla- their tune, if you are familiar with the name of the tors, Sources. tune; or, it can be used for locating other occur- Performance of Hymn 13 can be straightforward rences of the same tune in The Hymnal. TheIndex with organ accompaniment throughout, or one of of Tunes tells us that Winchester Old is used only the verses could be sung a cappella, since there are once (for hymn 13), but that a tune called Win- four vocal parts provided in the harmonization. chester New is used for 10, 64 and 300. You will also Most organists vary their registration from one find anIndex of Composers, Sources, Arrangers, verse to the next in cases where there are a lot of beginning on page 811. This is useful if you discover verses, and the use of one a cappella verse can be a composer or arranger whose work you really another beautiful and effective variation. Another enjoy, and you would like to explore more of their performance practice that I wish to highly com- tunes. In my case, I am a great admirer of almost mend is the singing of a descant. The worddescant anything that has been composed or arranged by denotes a voice singing above, or over-against, the R. Vaughan Williams; fortunately there are no less other voices. Usually in our tradition a descant is than 16 occurrences of his work in our Hymnal! sung by the upper voices of the choir (i.e., soprano One can find other interesting treasures in the & tenor) while the lower voices (bass & alto) com- Index of Composers, Sources, Arrangers. For bine to sing the melody of the hymn. After several example, anyone looking for Traditional Welsh centuries of Anglican hymn-singing, there are of Melodies will be happy to find 3 listed in the Index. course many books of descants that complement (NOTE: the Supplemental Tunes in the far back of the tunes of our Hymnal, but I will recommend at The Hymnal are sometimes unaccounted for in the least one. The Christ Church Descant Book,by Lois Indices. Among the Supplemental Tunes which Fyfe, is a two-volume set of descants which have come after the Indices, we find two additional been composed specifically withThe Hymnal, 1940 Welsh melodies, Llangloffan & Cwm Rhondda.) in mind, and which is thus quite easy to use. One Getting back to Hymn 13, we now come to the may also use these books with The Hymnal, 1982, text of the hymn itself, set within a harmonized ver- although some slight alteration of words or music sion of Winchester Old. At the very bottom-right will then be necessary. The descant books are read- of the page, we eventually come upon the name ily available from Lois Fyfe Music, of Nashville, of the Author, who is perhaps the most important TN, a company which is able to supply almost any person listed on the page. Occasionally the name traditional Anglican musical repertoire. Anyone printed at the bottom-right is that of a translator, who is interested in learning more about descants if the hymn was originally written in Greek, Latin and The Hymnal, 1940 is welcome to email me at: andat or some other language. In some other cases the [email protected] M Page 12 E Advent begins December 3, 2006 The new Christian Year—another year of into our inmost souls. Merely to hear or merely to grace— begins on Advent Sunday, December 3. The read the Bible is not enough. We need to have both season of Advent itself, which is not Christmas but the spiritual appetite and the spiritual digestion the period before the Christmas season, lasts from in place to come to the experience of the Psalm- Advent Sunday, December 3 until Christmas Eve, ist who declared: “How sweet are thy words unto December 24. The Advent which is chiefly in mind my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth” during the season is The Second Advent, the future [Psalm 119:103]. coming in glory of the exalted Lord Jesus Christ to That by patience, and comfort of thy holy earth to judge the living and the dead and to usher Word, Here we begin a specific application to in the fullness of the kingdom of God of the age the Advent Season, when we look for the Second to come. We learn of this “blessed hope” from the Coming of the Lord Jesus in glory. St Paul wrote, New Testament. In the Collect for Advent II, the “that we through patience and comfort of the Scrip- theme of the blessed hope and of the Holy Scrip- tures might have hope” (Romans 15:4), that is hope tures are combined, of that Second Coming and of the redemption of Blessed Lord, “Blessed be the Lord God of our whole souls and bodies in glory. We need to Israel” cried Zechariah (Luke 1:68) and Paul wrote, bear in mind that the comfort and strengthening “Blessed by the God and Father of our Lord Jesus of the Scriptures particularly comes to those who Christ” (Ephesians 1:3). Here we address God are patient! as “the Lord,” the ultimate “I am who I am,” the We may embrace and ever hold fast the blessed Lord of all being and the fountain of all goodness, hope of everlasting life, The Christian hope is a wisdom and power. blessed hope as St Paul told Titus: “Looking for Who hast caused all holy Scripture to be that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of written for our learning; Paul wrote, “whatsoever the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ” (Titus things were written aforetime were written for our 2:13). And having addressed God as the “Blessed learning” (Romans 15:4) and, “All these things hap- Lord”, we now celebrate the “blessed hope” which pened unto them for ensamples: and they were he alone provides for us (if we were using Latin the written for our admonition upon whom the ends first “blessed” of God would beBenedictus and the of the world are come” (1 Corinthians 10:11). second of his gift would be beatus). Thus we ask Grant that we may in such wise hear them, God to help us rightly to use the Holy Scriptures as Since we know why the Scriptures exist we ask a means of preparing for the Second Advent and of God, in his mercy and grace, to place us in a posi- life together with Christ in glory. tion where we can truly profit from their existence Which thou hast given us in our Saviour and content, as the Word of God written and trans- Jesus Christ. As the invocation of this Collect (to lated into our language. The verb “Grant” contains “Blessed Lord”) is unique in The Book of Common not only the theme of petition but also of submis- Prayer, so the conclusion is a very significant varia- sion to God, the Lord. “Hearing” is the first way in tion on the usual ending of these short prayers – which we receive the oracles of God, as they are “through Jesus Christ…” Instead of the proposition read in the church services of Morning and Eve- “through” we use “in” because the Christian hope ning Prayer, in the Order for Holy Communion, is not merely through Jesus the Mediator but it is and in Family Prayers. actually all bound up within him as our Prophet, Read, mark, learn and inwardly digest them, Priest and King. In fact it is, “Christ in you, the Hearing the oracles is but the beginning of receiv- hope of glory,” as St Paul told the Colossians (1:27). ing them for as we hear them we can also read This Hope keeps us steadfast not only in Advent them, and when alone we can just read them. The but throughout the whole Church Year. purpose of both hearing and reading them (done at Amen. So be it, O LORD, the Blessed One and the same time or separately) is that we may mark, blessed be thy kingdom now and always, even unto that is pay careful attention to, what we hear and ages of ages. read concerning God and his salvation in Jesus Blessed Lord, who hast caused all holy Scriptures Christ. Marking, paying careful attention, leads to to be written for our learning; Grant that we in such learning and understanding, and to the message wise hear them, read, mark, learn and inwardly being lodged in the memory and heart – “Thy Word digest them, that by patience, and comfort of they have I hid in my heart that I might not sin against holy Word, we may embrace, and ever hold fast the Thee” [Psalm 119:11]. This whole exercise may be blessed hope of everlasting life, which though hast called meditation for it is the route appointed by given us in our Saviour Jesus Christ. Amen. God whereby his Word goes from the written page andat M Page 13 E Collects to Pray on Christmas Day n the Ecclesia Anglicana before she began to Latin Church. However, this Collect was a new use English (as the Church of England), there creation from the hand of Archbishop Thomas were three Latin Collects for Christmas Day. Cranmer. IThe Missal of Sarum (Salisbury) in use up to 1549 Almighty God, who hast given us thy only-begot- made provision for three Masses for this high fes- ten Son to take our nature upon him, and as at this tival – one at cockcrow, one at the break of dawn, time to be born of a pure Virgin; Grant that we and one in full daylight. (No midnight Mass then!) being regenerate, and made thy children by adop- At the Mass at cockcrow the Collect prayed by tion and grace, may daily be renewed by thy Holy the priest was (in translation): Spirit through the same Lord Jesus Christ, who O God, who madest this most sacred night to liveth and reigneth with thee and the same Spirit, shine with the brightness of the true Light; Grant, we ever one God, world without end. Amen. beseech thee, that we, as we have known the revela- In this Collect we have a most beautiful combi- tions of the Light upon earth, so we may also have nation of sound doctrine and of inspired petition. the fruition of his joys in heaven; who with thee and The Son of God was the Second Person of the the Holy Ghost liveth and reigneth one God world Holy Trinity before he took to himself human without end. Amen. nature in the womb of the Virgin Mary. At the This recalls Jesus as the Light of the world espe- Annunciation and Conception, Mary conceived cially as he is so presented in the Prologue and Text Jesus miraculously by the presence of the Holy of the Gospel according to St. John. Ghost. At the same moment the Son of God, who At the Mass at dawn the Collect prayed by the possessed eternally his divine nature, acquired the priest was: beginnings of a human nature, so he would become Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, to us at birth One Person made known in two natures, upon whom the new light of the Word made flesh divine and human. In human flesh he would be is shed forth, that the light which shines by faith Immanuel, God with us. in our hearts may also shine brightly in our works. As the Son of God was born according to his Through the same Jesus Christ, thy Son, our Lord. human nature from Mary, Blessed Virgin, so each Amen. of us is to be born of the Holy Ghost into the king- This also specifically recalls the Prologue of the dom of God and thereby made by grace into the Gospel according to St. John. adopted children of God, through the love of the At the Mass in the full light of day the Collect Father and the grace of the Son, our Lord Jesus prayed by the priest was: Christ. And as the Son of God in his human nature Grant, we beseech thee, Almighty God, that the lived as Jesus of Nazareth, fulfilling the vocation of new birth of thy only-begotten Son through the flesh the Messiah and Suffering Servant of God, so we may set free those who are held fast by the old bond- are to fulfill the vocation of the children of God age under the yoke of sin. Through the same Jesus called unto holiness and service in the kingdom Christ, thy Son, our Lord. Amen. and church of God our Father. Here the Incarnation of the Son of God, born Christmas is a time for rejoicing with the heav- from Mary his virgin mother, is seen as the basis enly host that the Son of God has become man for for the salvation offered to us through the same us and our salvation. It is also a time to see and Jesus Christ. accept what is the vocation of the regenerate chil- In the provision for the new Booke of the dren of God and, by the help of the Holy Ghost, Common Prayer (1549), the reformed Church of fulfill the same. England provided only one Collect along with the MAY YOU HAVE A BLESSED AND JOYFUL Epistle and Gospel as set for the third Mass in the TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS!
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ost of us are so busy with the life and baptized people, who are being saved from sin by work of the parish or group to which we divine grace and mercy. The local assembly of this belong, that do not take or make time to universal people is also “church” and should be a Mreflect upon its name and that of the larger unit to kind of microcosm of the whole. Again the local which it belongs. And, in the vast supermarket of ECCLESIA may have a KYRIAKON. American religions, we get so used to the peculiar- Regrettably the One Church of God is divided ity of our own name and association, even though into many parts, several very large and many it may seem odd to outsiders, that we just live with small. Thus for the purpose of identification of the it. parts we have to use adjectives to indicate what When we do reflect, or when someone asks a part (jurisdiction, branch, denomination etc.) is pointed question, perhaps we notice that we use intended. So we speak of the “Orthodox” Churches both the word “church” and “Anglican [and/or and of the “Roman Catholic” Church. However, Episcopalian]” in different ways and with differ- when we come to the use of “Anglican” or “Episco- ent meanings. Perhaps we do not realize that this pal” we cannot any longer simply say “the Anglican is confusing to outsiders and may also reflect the Church” or “the Episcopal Church.” lack of witness in American “Anglicanism” to the Certainly there was once the one Ecclesia Angli- confession in the Creed—one, holy, catholic and cana in England and from this sister churches apostolic Church. were founded in the British Empire and Com- Let us begin with the word “church.” When we monwealth. But now, in North America, there use it of the consecrated building or temple, such is out there a growing list of the bits and pieces as St Mark’s Church, do we realize that the under- Anglicanism, testifying to the powerful centrifugal lying word here is KYRIAKON which literally forces of modern American culture and religion, means “thing belonging to the Lord.” This being so, which caused them to be separate and keeps them do we also observe how odd it is to insert into the so. There are over forty “jurisdictions” bearing the name of this building further words, such as “St “Anglican brand name” in the American supermar- Mark’s Anglican Church” or “St Mark’s Reformed ket of religious and in each one there are “saints of Episcopal Church” or “St Mark’s Anglican Mission God.” From within this situation, Anglicans and in America Church” ? Here is a building conse- Episcopalians may care to ask: crated in the name of an evangelist for the worship What are we doing to try to allow the cen- of the Blessed, Holy and Undivided Trinity of the tripetal powers of unifying grace to heal divi- Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Why compli- sions and bridge chasms and reconcile the cate and distort this most important and beautiful divided? fact by adding more nouns or adjectives? Why not Do we think that this powerful statement simply have the correct name on line 1—St Mark’s of disunity honors the Lord or helps the prop- Church— and then on line 2 add any further infor- agation of the Gospel and the engagement in mation as to its location and identity (e.g., name pure worship? of place where church is or of the jurisdiction to At least, should not all those who think that The which those who use the building belong)? Local Episcopal Church as an institution is apostate, and churches which were once proud to call themselves who think that there is such a thing as the ortho- St so and so Episcopal Church are now beginning dox Anglican Way, be seeking to find ways of being to remove the embarrassing word. together in the name of Christ in real cooperation When we use the word “Church” in the Creed— and practice? one, holy, catholic and apostolic Church—we refer to the people of God, the household of God, Additional Note. There is a further use of the the Body of Christ living through space and time word “Church” in The Episcopal Church and this and in heaven. The underlying word is ECCLE- is really neither from KYRIAKON nor EKKLESIA! SIA which literally means in the New Testament The commonly-used description of the Offices and and in regular Greek, “assembly of people.” This Administration of The Episcopal Church in NYC people is governed by holy Order under the Lord as “the National Church” seems to equate “Church” Jesus Christ and it may possess holy buildings and with the office of the Presiding Bishop and the other property, but “Church” here is regenerated, Executive Council of the General Convention. andat M Page 15 E da.6106.mandate.stone 6/5/06 11:03 AM Page 1
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