I asked in the last post “I wonder if anyone thought of doing an audio version of something like the TDP?� I was in fact asking a rhetorical question as I already had in mind someone who is providing just such a service for our edification. Dan over at Necessary Roughness has a great series of p...

Today is Ash Wednesday for those of us who follow the historic liturgical calendar and I must say that I’m stoked! Ash Wednesday is the church catholic’s big kick off to the Lenten season. Lent, the Church’s original forty days of purpose, is considered a penitential period where the focus of ...

I really wanted to get this up on Sunday but I’ve been sort of busy the last few days. Last Monday I took some time to answer an email that where the writer complained among other things that I talked a lot about hymnody but never enough about Scripture. I guess this post is a continuation of my p...

Every now and again I get an email that chastises me for, well, just fill in the blank because it’s a long list. I’ve been accused of not being mission minded because I don’t want separate doctrine from the mission as if two could be separated. I’ve been called an antinomian because I’ve s...

I've found the Latin words for Letabundus - or some of them, anyway - in these program notes of a Christmas concert sung by the "Blue Heron Choir," (here's the mp3 again, so you can follow along): Letabundus exsultet fidelis chorus:Alleluia.Regem regumintacte profudit thorus:res miranda.Angelus cons...

From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum Service books : On the Feast of the Purification of the B. V. Mary (Feb. 2): 1st Evensong: Quod chorus vatum ... ... ... 56Mattins: Quem terra, pontus, ethera ... ... ... 63Lauds: O gloriosa femina ... ... ... 632nd Evensong: Letabundus ... ... Se...

Something nice, from Project Gutenburg; this was apparently originally published in 1905. I was trying to find out more about the "longer alphabetic hymn" from which so many of the Christmas and Epiphany Office hymns have been taken, and came across this in my search. I also came across the hymn O s...

I wasn't going to post this, feeling that I'd done it before - but actually I haven't. I've posted about most of the hymns themselves, but haven't given the whole listing of all the Office hymns for this, one of my favorite feast days of the year. So here it is, from Hymn melodies for the whole year...

Of all of the good Christmas hymns out there “Of the Father’s love begotten� is by far my favorite. Good hymnody is a sung confession of faith. What I love about this particular hymn is that it so beautifully repeats back to God how He has chosen to deal with his sinful and rebellious creation...

From Hymn melodies for the whole year from the Sarum service-books : On Christmas Day:1st Evensong: Veni, Redemptor gentium ... ... ... 25Matins: Christe, Redemptor omnium, De ... ... 26Lauds & 2nd Evensong: A solis ortus cardine ... ... ... 27 Here's the score to Hymn 25, listed as the song for Fir...