Tuesday, June 12, 2007

Photos of the 1865 service at St. Paul's

Posted by Reverend Ref + at 11:10 PM


VC Players in the Choir
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Members of the Illustrious Virginia City Players before the service.










The Epistle
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The Epistle is taken from the 4th Chapter of the 1st letter of St. John beginning at the 7th verse.









Holy Communion
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Doing Communion "the proper way." . . . riiiiiight








Prayer of Humble Access
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Reciting the Prayer of Humble Access ------------------------------------>









Receiving Holy Communion








Post Service
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The Very Rev. Ref with two of his parishioners ------------------------------------------->

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3 comments:

Ecgbert | 9:04 AM, June 13, 2007  
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Ecgbert | 6:42 PM, June 14, 2007  

Many thanks for the photos, Father. As you know, this rite, more or less, was the gateway drug for me as a kid to the hard stuff like the Missal.

Glad your bishop thought doing it was worth the risk of exposing it to impressionable minds and thus producing more young fogeys.

I imagine you would have worn preaching tabs (bands hanging from the collar) in 1865 as well.

Regarding the chap in choir wearing the alb, about the only places you would have seen that in 1865 were in the illustrations in Directorium Anglicanum (which more or less was somebody imagining actually applying the Ornaments Rubric, bringing back much Catholic ceremonial) and certain sarumophile Anglo-Catholics' dreams.

People from the Pope to Fr Tobias Haller (whom AFAIK no-one has accused of being a conservative) have defended the eastward position as historically and liturgically correct.

This service was an interesting parallel to the 'indult Mass' using the old Missal in the Roman Church — that requires the bishop's permission too!

You probably won't be surprised to know I once was the server for an Episcopal priest using the Missale Romanum. Not in translation like the Knott Missal but the Tridentine Mass in Latin. Something you used to find in the odd place in England but nearly unheard of in the States (St Gregory's Abbey in Michigan used to do it).

The late Canon Edward West of New York's cathedral, a long-time benefactor of the Serbian Orthodox community in that city, used to suit up in Orthodox vestments and do the Liturgy of St John Chrysostom in a side chapel at St John the Divine now and then. (Not for the Orthodox — he wasn't trying to pass himself off as an Orthodox priest — but for his own and his Episcopal congregation's edification.)

Ecgbert | 10:31 AM, June 26, 2007  

A bit late, but for your and your readers' enjoyment:

What a country parish church in the mid-1800s really looked like.

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