Grouchy Disciple
@grouchydisciple.bsky.social
Episcopalian husband and dad in higher ed. Member at St. Peter’s, McKinney, TX.
Not seeing anything about this here, but it seems like a big deal. The Episcopal Diocese of Dallas's Anual Convention yesterday voted to *repeal* Diocesan Canon 12, which prohibits same-sex marriage and LGBT clergy. ⚓ www.facebook.com/WeAreResurre...
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Dallas area folks, come to Choral Evensong at St. Peter's Episcopal in McKinney on 11/1 at 5 PM for All Saint’s Day, with Herbert Brewer’s D Major Evening Service and the incomparable Bainton “And I Saw a New Heaven.” I’ve never heard the St. Peter’s choir sound so good, if I may say so. 🕯️
The Historical Society of the Episcopal Church invites chapter proposals for Vol. 2 of a 5-volume History of Anglicanism in the Americas. Especially seeking: early evangelicalism, TEC church parties, mission & frontier colonialism, development of TEC in regions.
In case it turns out to be exactly the thing you needed to hear today: Scott Dettra, Music Director at St. Peter’s in McKinney, TX chants the Daily Office beautifully on this free podcast of Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline. thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com 🕯️
The Daily Office Chanted | Lawton Productions
<b>The Daily Office Chanted</b> is a podcast of Episcopal Morning Prayer, Evening Prayer, and Compline from <span class="s1"><em>The Book of Common Prayer</em> (1979)</span>, sung in Gregorian chant.<...
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Randy's Mag Antiphon project, Proper 10 Year A. Matthew 13:1-9,18-23 features the Parable of the Sower, the old Sexagesima gospel from Luke 8. Liber Usualis includes antiphons from Luke 8 in the Sexagesima little hours; the Salisbury Antiphoner does so for 2nd Evensong and two weekday antiphons.
I haven’t found an extant chant antiphon from Matthew 10:40-42 (Proper 8, Year A). But for Proper 9, the “yoke is easy” reading, there are options. The Liber Usualis’s Alleluia verse on Mt 11:29 for Sacred Heart (p. 972) is, as such, a bit too melismatic to work as an antiphon verse.
If I were going to pair an antiphon from the Proper 7 Gospel (Matthew 10:24-39) with this week's Magnificat, it would be this one on Mt 10:28, "Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul, says the Lord." Not seeing it in the usual sources. 🕯️ cantusdatabase.org/chant/233029
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For a Magnificat antiphons that matches the Gospel for Proper 5, Year A (Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26), an easy option is Salisbury Antiphoner, Mag. ant., for 24th Sunday after Trinity.
Getting back into the Magnificat antiphon saddle. My current long-term goal is to have a chant antiphon from the Sunday Gospel reading for each Sunday in RCL, to pair with the Magnificat during evening prayer throughout each week. The Salisbury Antiphoner and Liber Usualis have some good choices, 🕯️
Scott Dettra’s “The Daily Office Chanted” podcast will include Compline, starting this evening at 7 PM Eastern. ⚓️ thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com
The Daily Office Chanted | Lawton Productions
<span>Welcome to The Daily Office Chanted, a podcast offering daily Morning and Evening Prayer sung to Gregorian Chant. As St. Augustine said, "<em>Qui cantat, bis orat</em>" (He who sings, prays twic...
thedailyofficechanted.podbean.com
The best existing antiphon for the RCL Lent 5A Gospel (the Raising of Lazarus) is "I am the resurrection (Ego sum resurrectio)," a Liber Usualis chant appointed to the burial service and at Lauds in the Office for the Dead, sung with the Song of Zechariah. Not seeing an English version yet. 🕯️
A powerful new piece by Kevin Salfen, inspired by and filmed within St. Philip’s Episcopal Church, San Antonio. Give it a listen this morning! 🕯️ youtu.be/cOCjYj21njM
Kevin Salfen: A Prayer for St. Philip's (performed by Agarita)
YouTube video by Composers Alliance of San Antonio
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This chant in the Salisbury Antiphoner--the Magnificat antiphon appointed for Wednesday of Lent 4--works well as a daily evensong antiphon for the Week of Lent 4 in RCL Year A, as it comes straight from Sunday's John 9 reading. ⚓️
The Samaritan woman at the well is the Lent 3, Year A Gospel reading—there are a few Medieval antiphons that set this passage in John. One, "Veri adoratores," is the Friday antiphon for Lent 3 in the Salisbury Antiphoner (pictured), and I'll be using that one throughout the week... (1/2) ⚓
With many thanks to the my colleague in this ministry, the great @arliecoles.bsky.social and the Association of Anglican Musicians, Episcopal Chant has expanded to include the Psalms, Book of Occasional Services, and more! ⚓ episcopalnewsservice.org/pressrelease...
Since we'll hear John 3:1-17 in this Sunday's Eucharist (Lent 2 Year A), I'll use this Magnificat antiphon, a traditional one for Pentecost Monday, for the week's Evening Prayer. The one in Salisbury Antiphon works fine for Lent 2--just beware of the clef change and unseasonal Alleluia. 🕯️
The Prime antiphon for the First Sunday of Lent (Liber Usualis pp. 530-531) is based on Matthew 4:1-2, which Revised Common Lectionary followers hear in church that Sunday in Year A. This will be my Magnificat antiphon for the week. (Sorry for the Latin--no time to engrave the English this week.)🕯️
The Salisbury Antiphoner’s Magnificat antiphon for Ash Wednesday is based on Matthew 6:19-20, which is in the Eucharistic Gospel lesson in every RCL year. 📕
Grouchy Disciple@grouchydisciple.bsky.social · last yr.Magnificat antiphon for Sunday, Proper 13 (closest to August 3), Year C. I've searched fruitlessly for existing chants on Lk 12:13-21, so I’m using the Magnificat antiphon for Ash Wednesday from the Salisbury Antiphoner, on the thematically-related Mt 6:19-20. 🕯️
The Salisbury Antiphoner's Mag antiphon for 2nd evensong, Feast of the Transfiguration, works okay for Epiphany Last. I'll use it tonight through Tuesday. I'm more enthusiastic about Thesaurizate vobis, which this antiphoner uses for Ash Wednesday. Trying to channel my energy toward Lent prep. 🕯
For next week (Epiphany 5, Year A), I wanted an antiphon on Matthew 5:13-20 for Magnificat in evening prayer, but there's nothing like that in the Salisbury Antiphoner, Liber Usualis, etc. 📕 This antiphon, which shows up in Einsiedeln 611 and numerous other manuscripts for Common of Apostles (1/3)
Like a refreshing glass of water, the BEATITUDES are this coming Sunday! My magnificat antiphon for the week of Epiphany 4, RCL Year A, adapts the old "Beati eritis cum vos oderint," which seems to have its deepest roots as the 2nd vespers mag antiphon for Common of Apostles. (1/4) 🕯️
I'm being intentionally lazy about an Epiphany 3, Year A magnificat antiphon: the kids are home, no work today, the roads are iced over, and a thousand things feel more important. But my Daily Office habit is suffering, so here's a better-than-nothing antiphon I'm going to print out. 🕯
Magnificat for the Second Sunday after the Epiphany, Year A. John 1:29 is the basis for most of “Ecce Maria,” a Psalm antiphon for the Feast of the Circumcision widely attested in Medieval manuscripts and found in the Liber Usualis, but not included in the Salisbury Antiphoner. 🕯️
Magnificat antiphon for the First Sunday after the Epiphany (Baptism of our Lord), Year A. The antiphon “Caeli aperti sunt super eum” seems to be in disuse, but it was once a fairly widespread Epiphany Octave chant. It’s the source of this melody, which I retained as fully as possible, while... 🕯️
At one extreme is my project, to provide Magnificat antiphons for Ordinary Time, based on the specific Gospel readings appointed each week by the lectionary. Totally opposite is Howard Galley's approach in The Prayer Book Office: just four generic antiphons for use in every week of green season. 🕯️
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