The Sarum Rite Year - June
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- Опубліковано 23 вер 2024
- Sequence for St Alban’s Day (Tune: Helmsley (Lo! He comes with clouds descending))
Go ye forth in glorious procession
Singing praises to the Lord,
Tell of endless exaltation,
Heart and voice in one accord,
With such honour, with such honour,
With such honour is this day Alban adored.
Golden hymns are now resounding,
Telling of his gift of grace,
Cleans’d of sin, and never fearing,
E’en before the monarch’s face.
O what mystery, O what mystery,
O what mystery see we in that fearless gaze.
He, cruel punishment awaiting,
As a prisoner was led,
Dried the stream and thither passing,
Safely walking o’er its bed.
Such sweet waters, such sweet waters,
Such sweet waters also sprung forth at his head.
Alban, who, these marvels working,
Left behind this earthly plain,
Flying up to highest Heaven
There a glory erst did gain.
Safely keep us, safely keep us,
Safely keep us in thy favour to remain.
Now on earth doth man extol thee,
Seeking thee with earnest prayer,
Pray our sins may be forgiven
That His favour we may share
Of thy mercy, of thy mercy,
Of thy mercy lead thy chosen people there.
Precious Martyr hear our anthems,
To thy suppliants give peace,
Bring us there, where joy is endless,
Thine own triumph to increase.
Alleluia! Alleluia!
Alleluia! England’s song shall never cease.
Sequence for St John’s Day (Tune: Ein Feste Burg (A mighty fortress is our God))
The Baptist’s birth do we behold,
Herald of Christ to celebrate.
Unto that life that he foretold,
His works and words to imitate.
Of holiness portend,
To Christ the closest friend,
Devoutly we desire
Do thou our hearts inspire
Glad tidings with this holy day.
Through this blest day may all below
In praising God with saints unite,
On whom the souls of men bestow
The verity of holy light.
Lest God should error find
Cleanse now our hearts and minds,
And intercede for us,
That through the gloominess
He may be pleased to condescend.
The Lamb that doth our life bestow
With His pure fleece He doth us drape,
He is the Lord whom thou didst show
And with thy finger indicate,
May we, arrayed in white,
Follow him to the gate,
By angels to be borne
Where light shall never wane,
O friend of Christ, O blessed John.
Cha sguir òran Shasainn gu bràth
An excellent new video Fr Felix, I have shared it to the Use of Sarum FB page
Thank you for making this video. It was fantastic.
Great stuff. I would love to hear more on issues surrounding the Western Rite from you. Many people, wrongly, decry the use of instruments apart from the human voice being used in liturgy/mass in Western Rite parishes (with the organ being the most common), despite the fact that there are no canons prohibiting such. However, another thing they'll decry, which there actually are canons disallowing (even the canons surrounding the 7th Council, I believe), is the use of statuary (but, then again, I have been told there is that passage in St. Justin Martyr where I believe he mentions a stature of Christ in Jerusalem that had been venerated since very early on, so I'm a bit unclear on the issue). Does the Sarum Rite make use of statuary? Thanks, Father.
This is a really good question that confuses a lot of people and deserves a better answer than I can give here. There is a distinction between the sort of images that were in Churches in pre-renaissance and post-renaissance Europe.
There is a good case to be made that the sort of statues that started to appear later on shouldn’t have a place in the Church. However, there is no specific injunction against the use of 3d images in Orthodoxy. What I believe you might be referring to are 1) the Canons of the Seventh Ecumenical Council and 2) the passage by St Nicodemus in The Rudder on the question.
The Canons of the Council do not touch on 3d imagery. They are a positive affirmation of the concept of icons. In fact there is a tradition of Eastern Orthodox sculpture that stretches back to the earliest times and many examples of Byzantine statues exist, some of which are still located in their original positions within Church buildings. The growing preference for ‘flat’ iconography in the East is largely a cultural preference which is the result of a reaction to the Iconoclastic heresy and the Muslim Invasion.
St Nicodemus admittedly does not like statues. He is concerned that because they are detached pieces they detract from the overall scheme of liturgical art and deviate from the iconographic ethos of liturgical art. We are not Roman Catholics, however. Everything in the Church is a question of fact and degree, of what is sensible and what is practicable (just look at the Rudder talking about what to do if you need to baptise someone in the desert!). Never never never fall into the trap of being polemical about theologoumenon. We need to safeguard against the things that St Nicodemus speaks about, and for this reason we’re very against the sort of emotive statuary that you find in Roman Catholic churches. We are not about to make a full size waxwork Madonna, dress it up and parade around the streets with it a la Spanish Reconquista.
However. The Church has a very ancient tradition (going back to the very first Christians) of iconographic statutory, which flourished beautifully before the renaissance in both the East and West, and it would be difficult if not impossible to imagine an expression of Western Orthodoxy which doesn’t partake to some degree in this this tradition of carved images. This is a question, again, of fact and degree; of proportionality, economia and practicability. I am speaking of, for example, the image of Our Lady of Walsingham.
Like I say, this is a massive issue and there will be people who take exception to that. We have to remember at the end of the day that we are all coming at this from a position of trying to come closer to Christ in his saints.
I hope that goes some way to answering your question?
@@diversothermonks Yes, it does. Thank you, father. I do wonder why Iconoclasm and the Islamic conquest inspired such a predilection for flat images specifically.