Richard Pryor

@rpryor03.bsky.social

Progressive politics, traditional liturgics. Exacta, Earth & Altar, Princeton Seminary. That guy who does church music projects.

NEW on Episcopal Chant! A short 🧵. ⭐️ A streamlined navigation that now more closely follows the 1979 BCP. Find pointed propers for Sundays now under Holy Eucharist, and for pastoral offices and episcopal services under Other Services. ⚓

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"I bid you: Awake, sleeper! I did not create you to lie bound in hell. Arise from the dead, for I am life to whose who have died. Rise up, work of my hands, my likeness, made in my image. Rise, let us go hence." - attr. to Epiphanius II of Cyprus ⚓

An icon of the Anastasis, written by the Rev. Peter Pearson, at the Chapel of the Apostles, Sewanee, TN.

You can find this arrangement of "I saw three ships" in Carols for Choirs 6, which has some real gems in it by composers like Jerrick Cavagnaro, Marques L.A. Garrett, and Ghislaine Reece-Trapp. (And also some stuff I heard and was like "hm, I don't think we needed another version of that") #9lc

This lesson is proof for the Anglophiles in the USA that you don't have to have a British accent to read the Word of Lord with purpose and gravity. (You can do that with *any* accent!) #9lc 🕯️

Massive institution run by men gets run into the ground in some profound way ➡️ figurehead resigns so people will stop yelling at him ➡️ First Woman Figurehead is appointed to the impossible task of uniting and cleaning up an institution whose wounds have been left to fester for decades/ centuries.

Though with a scornful wonder Men see her sore opprest, By schisms rent asunder, By heresies distrest, Yet saints their watch are keeping, Their cry goes up, "How long?" And soon the night of weeping Shall be the morn of song. - Samuel Stone (1839-1900) Published in Lyra Fidelium, 1866. #tec

Make no mistake: if he rose at all It was as His body; If the cell’s dissolution did not reverse, the molecule reknit, The amino acids rekindle, The Church will fall. - John Updike, "Seven Stanzas at Easter" ⚓

Where is the good news for the older of the two brothers in last Sunday's Gospel? To get to a good answer, two twentieth century authors may point us in the right direction - more at the link below. ⚓️

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Here's a whacky idea. What if we all give up service leaflets for Lent? It will save time, money, and, most important, trees. And then we can take on the spiritual discipline of hospitality. 1/3 ⚓️

OK, Episcopalians, I need your help. I'm doing some copyright research on Howard Galley, and he's the copyright owner for something listed as the "Seabury diary, 1989." Does anyone know what this would have been? 📕