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Tuesday, December 29, 2020

Blogday 2020: Communication, Communion and Common Prayer

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As usual, today I reflect on this little blogling which has now attained the age of fifteen. 2020 has not been a kind year to many of us, an...
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Sunday, December 27, 2020

The Truth of St John

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Propers for St John's Day Sermon for St John's Day The world of Biblical Scholarship is sometimes a strange place to be for Christia...
Friday, December 25, 2020

Christmas Spirits

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Propers for Christmas Day Sermon for Christmas Day Why do we tell ghost stories at Christmas? There is a real tradition within English cultu...
Wednesday, December 23, 2020

O Virgo Virginum

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O Virgo Virginum O Virgin of virgins! how shall this be? for neither before thee was any like thee, nor shall there be after. Daughters of J...
Tuesday, December 22, 2020

O Emmanuel

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O Emmanuel O Emmanuel, our King and Lawgiver, the Desire of all nations and their salvation: come and save us, O Lord our God. God is with u...
Monday, December 21, 2020

O Rex Gentium

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O Rex Gentium O King of the nations, and their Desire; the chief Corner-stone, who makest two both one: come and save mankind whom Thou form...
Sunday, December 20, 2020

Virtual Nine Lessons and Carols 2020

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I thought, given the circumstances, it might be good to try again an experiment that I made a few years ago and blog a virtual celebration o...

The Crowded Wilderness

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Propers for the fourth Sunday in Advent Sermon for the fourth Sunday in Advent A voice cries in the wilderness. How on earth is it expected ...

O Oriens

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O Oriens O Dayspring, Brightness of Light Everlasting and Sun of Righteousness: come and enlighten him that sitteth in darkness and in the s...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

O Clavis David

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O Clavis David O Key of David and Sceptre of the house of Israel, that openest and no man shutteth, who shuttest and no man openeth: come an...
Friday, December 18, 2020

O Radix Jesse

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O Radix Jesse O Root of Jesse, which standest for an ensign of the people, at whom kings shall shut their mouths, to whom the Gentiles shall...
Thursday, December 17, 2020

O Adonaï

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O Adonaï O Adonaï, and Leader of the House of Israel, who appearedst in the Bush to Moses in a flame of fire, and gavest him the Law in Sina...
Wednesday, December 16, 2020

O Sapientia

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As befits the Old English usage, I begin a series of reflections on the Advent Antiphons beginning today on the 16th of December . O Sapient...
Sunday, December 13, 2020

Virgin on Eternity

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A reflection on how virginity provides its own spiritual strength.

Art Thou He?

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The Propers for Advent III Sermon for the third Sunday in Advent Is the Jesus that you worship the same Jesus that the Church worships? [PAU...
Monday, December 07, 2020

Unity in Community

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 A few thoughts on how unity might be achieved in a disunited world.
Sunday, December 06, 2020

From the old to the new

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Listen to Propers Advent II Sermon for the second Sunday in Advent You will have noticed that many people see how God appears in the Old Tes...
Wednesday, December 02, 2020

The Advent Prose

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 Rough and ready as always, but I hope this will be of use to some. Listen to The Advent Prose
Sunday, November 29, 2020

Lo!

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Listen to Propers Advent I Sermon for Advent Sunday Charles Fort is known as a collector of tales of odd occurrences. One of his books is en...
Sunday, November 22, 2020

Tying up loose ends

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Before the sermon, a little something for St Cecilia's Day Sermon for the Sunday next before Advent Is Sunday the first day of the week ...