Tag Archives: liturgy

When did we stop kneeling?

Posted on 11/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

My grandmother (born in 1891) was brought up as a Baptist though not baptised in adolescence. In fact she was baptised before her marriage to my grandfather, at St Mary’s Weymouth, a stronghold of low-church Anglicanism. But my grandmother knew … Continue reading →

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Music in the liturgy – a new beginning or the end of an era?

Posted on 09/08/2022 by Scott Anderson

I read with interest of the publication of a revised edition of the English Hymnal towards the end of this year. I shall certainly add it to my collection (of English Hymnals) with the 1906 & 1933 editions, the New … Continue reading →

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New French Missal

Posted on 28/06/2021 by Scott Anderson

At long last the Catholic Church in France (and the other francophone countries) is to have its new translation of the Missal, which comes into use on Advent Sunday 2021. At last I shall not be the only priest in … Continue reading →

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Holy Mass from the Divine Worship Missal (the background)

Posted on 29/04/2020 by Scott Anderson

    I imagine that many of us during the confinement will have set ourselves a task or project. I have several, including learning to say the Ordinariate Use of the Mass. Perhaps you are surprised by this, but I … Continue reading →

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A Saturday Farewell & a Sunday Celebration

Posted on 29/09/2015 by Scott Anderson

On the last Sunday of September the Diocese of Amiens in northern France celebrates in honour of its first Bishop, St Firmin, whose relics are kept in the cathedral (which is, I think, the largest Gothic cathedral in France). In the parishes … Continue reading →

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A possible way into the Ordinariate liturgy

Posted on 05/07/2015 by Scott Anderson

Like many former English Anglican clergy of my generation I grew up at a time of liturgical change. I can still recite by heart some of the liturgy of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer which I learnt as a … Continue reading →

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Back to Church at Christmas: opportunities for evangelisation

Posted on 13/01/2015 by Scott Anderson

There is  a story told of an Anglican priest who surveyed the substantial congregation which had turned up for the Evening Service on Harvest Sunday (it was some years ago when they still did).  Marching up to the tabernacle and … Continue reading →

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The music of Advent

Posted on 30/11/2014 by Scott Anderson

  Compared with the carols and hymns of Christmas, the music of Advent is less well known. Yet it is among the loveliest – and most singable – of the Church’s year.  As part of the restrained liturgy of this … Continue reading →

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What shall we sing at Mass?

Posted on 26/09/2014 by Scott Anderson

I have been re-reading “Anglicans and Catholics in Communion”, a collection of articles and essays published by the Catholic League in August 2010. Looking back even over four years at the hopes and fears for the Ordinariates is fascinating, instructive, … Continue reading →

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Celebrating the Ordinariate liturgy – some initial thoughts

Posted on 06/12/2013 by Scott Anderson

The season of Advent has been marked by many Ordinariate groups in the UK beginning to celebrate Mass according to the Ordinariate Use. We were no exception in the Ordinariate Parish of the Most Precious Blood at Borough, in South … Continue reading →

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