Frank, Basically correct, but I'd nuance: Christmas, along with Good Friday (and Easter, to some extent) was a communion day in many (most?) places with...
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bioman801
Dec 15, 2010 5:17 pm
This would also be true of the seasonal showing of "It's a Wonderful Life". Despite it's release before Christmas in 1946, the movie isn't about Christmas as...
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Douglas Cowling
cowling.douglas@...
Dec 15, 2010 6:50 pm
On 12/15/10 11:47 AM, "Walter Knowles" <wrknowles@...> wrote: think it would be worth seeing a battle between main-stream cultural Anglicanism of the...
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Rdr James
rdrjames
Dec 16, 2010 1:42 am
http://www.danielmitsui.com/hieronymus/ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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John Dornheim
johndornheim
Dec 16, 2010 1:51 am
Let us refrain from the posting of mere urls. If you think that this is something of import, spend some time explaining why. John Dornheim ... -- “If you...
If you have access to it, have a look at: A Christian prayer hall of the third century CE at Kefar ʻOthnay (Legio): excavations at the Megiddo prison 2005 On...
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Walter Knowles
waltknowles
Dec 19, 2010 10:00 pm
I think it's very important to keep a critical eye turned toward liturgical hagiography--particularly that describing the 19th century. While one might be able...
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Douglas Cowling
cowling.douglas@...
Dec 19, 2010 10:11 pm
On 12/19/10 5:00 PM, "Walter Knowles" <wrknowles@...> wrote: I'd highly recommend a solid dose of Katherine Bergeron's _Decadent enchantments_...
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Rdr James
rdrjames
Dec 21, 2010 2:50 am
Here's a quote from a blog, which is by a Catholic priest in England: Each year in the Archdiocese to which I belong the Archbishop "asks and encourages"...
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Nathan Nettleton
laughingbirdnet
Dec 21, 2010 3:04 am
... I thought that Vigil masses, at Christmas or any other time, were based on the understanding that the liturgical day began at sunset. If that was the...
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William Renwick
renwick@...
Dec 21, 2010 3:40 am
I treasure the Christmas day service; a quiet, holy time in the midst of all the bustle; but very few people in my area go to church on christmas day; most go...
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wx5116
Dec 21, 2010 4:09 am
At my parish we have Masses at 6:30 pm, 11 pm (Procession & Solemn Midnight Mass) and 10:30 am (Procession & Solemn Mass of the Day). 11 pm gets the most...
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Douglas Cowling
cowling.douglas@...
Dec 21, 2010 4:41 am
On 12/20/10 10:40 PM, "William Renwick" <renwick@...> wrote: I treasure the Christmas day service; a quiet, holy time in the midst of all ...
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Michael Thannisch
mjthannisch
Dec 21, 2010 5:23 am
We used to have our main Christmas Eucharist at 10:00 PM with the idea of ending about midnight. That changed because the building we held the mass in...
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Michael Thannisch
mjthannisch
Dec 21, 2010 5:29 am
Growing up in the Episcopal Church in the 60's there was no Christmas Eve service, just a Christmas day service. I don't think I saw a Christmas eve service...
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Dwight J. Penas
djp4law
Dec 21, 2010 5:33 am
Our family is struggling with this issue (it's more an Easter thing, but Christmas figures in): We worship at the Easter Vigil and the Christmas Vigil (which...
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Frank Senn
fcsenn
Dec 21, 2010 11:45 am
Easter and Christmas are not the same liturgically. There are three separate masses for Christmas in the Roman (and Lutheran) rite. This may be a Roman...
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R Drake
hymncat
Dec 21, 2010 2:24 pm
That may be a regional thing - the Episcopal church I went to with my grandparents (in Maryland) had Christmas Eve services from at least the late 50s. There...
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Frank Senn
fcsenn
Dec 21, 2010 2:48 pm
When I was a youth growing up in Buffalo, NY in the 1950s, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral had an 11 p.m. Eucharist on Christmas Eve that was broadcast on local...
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Douglas Cowling
cowling.douglas@...
Dec 21, 2010 3:06 pm
On 12/21/10 9:48 AM, "Frank Senn" <fcsenn@...> wrote: When I was a youth growing up in Buffalo, NY in the 1950s ... I was growing up at the same time...
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wx5116
Dec 21, 2010 3:23 pm
Exactly - this is a point that people forget, and the three different Christmas liturgies have very rent Gospel focuses varying from the manger scene to the...
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Michael Thannisch
mjthannisch
Dec 21, 2010 3:57 pm
That is our thought, which is why we don't have Easter day or Christmas day services. We do have morning prayer, and the vespers seems right as well. Shalom...
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cantor03@...
cantor03
Dec 21, 2010 4:21 pm
When I was a youth growing up in Buffalo, NY in the 1950s, St. Paul's Episcopal Cathedral had an 11 p.m. Eucharist on Christmas Eve that was broadcast on local...
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Michael Thannisch
mjthannisch
Dec 21, 2010 4:45 pm
Definitely a regional thing. One thing I have learned from this list (and my travels) is that there is a tremendous liturgical diversity in the Episcopal...
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Kevin Riley
klriley1
Dec 21, 2010 9:12 pm
Does "classical Anglican" survive anywhere? I remember reading some time ago that it was estimated that less than a dozen such churches remained in England. ...
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dlewisaao@...
wx5116
Dec 21, 2010 10:43 pm
I'll bet this church is what we would call "broad church." David In a message dated 12/21/2010 4:12:50 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, klriley@......
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James
rdrjames
Dec 21, 2010 11:05 pm
Is there an online access to the site (virtual!)? thanks, Rdr. James...
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James
rdrjames
Dec 21, 2010 11:07 pm
Well,Huysmanns certainly had his moments! I remember something about a jewel-encrusted tortoise in one of his books. 'L'abas', or something. Can'd do French...
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James
rdrjames
Dec 21, 2010 11:11 pm
David, what propers do you use for the 6:30 pm mass? Same as the 11 pm with the John 1:1 gospel etc?...
