Good Sarum Mass Site With Pictures
This link is mainly for my records.
Anglo-Catholic Boot Camp for Youth
I never went to church camp. When I was in EYC, we went out to South Dakota for a couple of weeks per year to do construction work (we built roofs and renovated and re-fenced a cemetery or two) and run a Vacation Bible School on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. It probably involved a little too much relativism for Mr. Foster's taste.
On the other hand, I gladly would send any potential child to something like my youth service trips or the St. Michael's Youth Conference. In the latter case, I would enjoy the mild amount of de-programming necessary afterwards.
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Both of these are quite fascinating...
Ok--quick "need to know" thing for High Church folk. In the Sarum one, check out the picture of the dude reading the Epistle. What liturgical garment is he wearing?
Take a moment...
Did you guess a dalmatic?--it's *not*. The epistle isn't read by a deacon but a *sub*-deacon who wears a tunicle not a dalmatic. The difference? Dalmatics have a band of orphery going across the bottom that the tunicle lacks. (Can't see it in any of these pictures...)
I learned about this particular distinction myself a little bit ago; thought I'd share...
Ah. Good observation. I knew that a sub-deacon read the Epistle, but I can't say that I knew what distinguishes a dalmatic from a tunicle. What's also funny is this picture is from a different church than most of the others.
That is because the pictures are an homage to
this work:
http://anglicanhistory.org/alcuin/pictured.html
Notice that they've colorized the robes and given the altar party beards in order to make everything look more "Orthodox."
Thanks for this site.
I've been the *sub*-deacon several times in the past, so I've had the good pleasure of wearing the tunicle.
BTW: Did you notice that not one picture showed the order of the laity in the pews? Rubs me the wrong way simply because it suggests a clerical understanding that became inherent in Medieval practice, not to mention I take my order seriously and without a careful appropriation of this part of our tradition, we may undermine our baptismal emphasis. And this is from one who loves English usages of the Roman Rite.
Remember local synods in England legislated against the laity partaking more than at Easter.
BTW: I offered a reflection on the brothers. I hope you didn't think I was implying a sexual relationship where there clearly was none. The point was ecclesial relationship.
My point was that they were probably brothers in both the familial and ecclesial sense. But from our very limited knowledge of them, they do seem to have been awesome martyrs. And they do come from a cool town. See Arezzo in the Catholic Encyclopedia.
Derek is pointing out the difference in tunicles and dalmatics, and all I can think is that I have to argue with certain assistants to get them in a plain alb on Sunday. Ah, the joys of being high church in a low church parish!
LP, despite being in a somewhat higher church setting (Broad Church drifting High), I assure you that my knowledge of dalmatics and tunicles is strictly academic.
Lp--it's all in choosing what fights you're willing to have. That is just one of dozens that I refused to keep fighting...
lp,
I would say you've enough to do with getting them in albs. Forget the tunicles. As derek said, not a ditch worth dying in.
caelius,
I knew they were familial brothers, but their witness is nonetheless worth emulating.
And btw: tunicles on a hot day, not so fun. In the summer here, my parish had no air conditioning, and by the time Mass ended I was sweating up a storm. LP, that might be reason enough to just go with the alb with folks.
*christopher, parce me , that's true.
As for vestments, there was nothing like a hot day in 1999 when the crucifer wore a t-shirt, shorts, and sandals. On days like that, I tried to minimize what I wore under the alb (within reason).
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