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"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
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"God, as the author of Nature and of Grace, does agree perfectly with Himself" - Benjamin Whichcote
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Peter begins chemotherapy today. I would be grateful for your prayers for him.
"This holy feast which now we celebrate ..."
John Cosin describing Advent Sunday, in a 1626 sermon.
John Cosin describing Advent Sunday, in a 1626 sermon.
November 30, 2025 at 7:15 AM
"This holy feast which now we celebrate ..."
John Cosin describing Advent Sunday, in a 1626 sermon.
John Cosin describing Advent Sunday, in a 1626 sermon.
Year A in the three lectionary, the year of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew - the title for the year appropriately suggesting Matthaean priority.
November 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Year A in the three lectionary, the year of the Gospel according to Saint Matthew - the title for the year appropriately suggesting Matthaean priority.
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Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Other work by the Ladybird artists
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
‘Farmyard at Dusk’
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
The Holocaust Memorial at the Great Synagogue in Budapest. The two empty spaces reflect the Commandment tablets in synagogues. They are left empty here to represent the abject lawlessness of the Holocaust.
November 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The Holocaust Memorial at the Great Synagogue in Budapest. The two empty spaces reflect the Commandment tablets in synagogues. They are left empty here to represent the abject lawlessness of the Holocaust.
In a corner of Saint Stephen's Basilica, the spirit of 🇭🇺 in the face of the Communist dictatorship.
November 27, 2025 at 2:33 PM
In a corner of Saint Stephen's Basilica, the spirit of 🇭🇺 in the face of the Communist dictatorship.
Visiting Budapest 🇭🇺 for a few days, and preparing to visit the Great Synagogue today, it was very sobering to read Ps.120-125, from the Psalms of Ascent, at Matins: "My soul hath long dwelt among them : that are enemies unto peace".
November 27, 2025 at 8:09 AM
Visiting Budapest 🇭🇺 for a few days, and preparing to visit the Great Synagogue today, it was very sobering to read Ps.120-125, from the Psalms of Ascent, at Matins: "My soul hath long dwelt among them : that are enemies unto peace".
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the Spirit "infused into us by God":
November 26, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - on the Spirit "infused into us by God":
Harriet Backer 'From the Trinity Church' (in Oslo), c.1898-1908. Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
November 25, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Harriet Backer 'From the Trinity Church' (in Oslo), c.1898-1908. Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - prayer as "that duty in which all graces are concentred":
November 25, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - prayer as "that duty in which all graces are concentred":
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "those secret accents". This brings to mind the phrase in the prayer of St. Chrysostom, "the *desires* and petitions of thy servants".
November 24, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "those secret accents". This brings to mind the phrase in the prayer of St. Chrysostom, "the *desires* and petitions of thy servants".
As the late afternoon turns dark on this Stir-up Sunday, Arvo Pärt's Magnificat - a meditative setting of the canticle of the Daughter of Sion, turning us towards Advent.
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Arvo Pärt Magnificat
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November 23, 2025 at 4:21 PM
As the late afternoon turns dark on this Stir-up Sunday, Arvo Pärt's Magnificat - a meditative setting of the canticle of the Daughter of Sion, turning us towards Advent.
youtu.be/cUo_USWsCaY?...
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Surely the most appropriate reading for Stir-up Sunday, preparing us for 'Veni, veni, Emmanuel' amidst the Winter darkness of Advent.
November 23, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Surely the most appropriate reading for Stir-up Sunday, preparing us for 'Veni, veni, Emmanuel' amidst the Winter darkness of Advent.
The parish church in Jeremy Taylor country shrouded in fog, on this eve of Stir-up Sunday.
November 22, 2025 at 4:45 PM
The parish church in Jeremy Taylor country shrouded in fog, on this eve of Stir-up Sunday.
A post on the practice of Saint Cecilia's Day sermons in the late 17thC and early 18thC Church of England. These sermons delighted in the gift of music and rejoiced in the Anglican choral tradition.
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'There is in Musick something of Divinity': the Anglican choral tradition and late 17th/early 18th century sermons for Saint Cecilia's Day
This being the Day which Custom has devoted to celebrate the Decency of Cathedral service, to set forth its Usefulness, to convince the Gain...
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November 21, 2025 at 9:59 AM
A post on the practice of Saint Cecilia's Day sermons in the late 17thC and early 18thC Church of England. These sermons delighted in the gift of music and rejoiced in the Anglican choral tradition.
laudablepractice.blogspot.com/2025/11/ther...
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Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "and whatsoever will bring us safely to heaven":
November 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part II, Sermon II, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "and whatsoever will bring us safely to heaven":
"The interior of the church was venerable, but simple ..."
Washington Irving, in his Christmas stories, describing the English country church.
Washington Irving, in his Christmas stories, describing the English country church.
November 20, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"The interior of the church was venerable, but simple ..."
Washington Irving, in his Christmas stories, describing the English country church.
Washington Irving, in his Christmas stories, describing the English country church.
"If there is a 'patron saint' of the ordinary Anglican - content for reasons practical and natural to be Anglican ... - surely it is Lewis the Hookerian."
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Lewis the Hookerian, 'patron saint' of ordinary Anglicanism
As we approach the anniversary of the death of surely the most influential Anglican of the 20th century, C.S. Lewis, I share a wonderful ext...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:39 PM
"If there is a 'patron saint' of the ordinary Anglican - content for reasons practical and natural to be Anglican ... - surely it is Lewis the Hookerian."
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With this weather, how can we doubt that the Almighty clearly wants us to ready ourselves for Advent by observing Stir-up Sunday rather than the artifical late 20th century innovation that has sought to replace it?
November 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
With this weather, how can we doubt that the Almighty clearly wants us to ready ourselves for Advent by observing Stir-up Sunday rather than the artifical late 20th century innovation that has sought to replace it?
At Matins on this 19th day of the month, Ps.96: "then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord".
On a cold day in late November, with the trees bare, a reminder that the Lord's Advent approaches.
On a cold day in late November, with the trees bare, a reminder that the Lord's Advent approaches.
November 19, 2025 at 8:51 AM
At Matins on this 19th day of the month, Ps.96: "then shall all the trees of the wood rejoice before the Lord".
On a cold day in late November, with the trees bare, a reminder that the Lord's Advent approaches.
On a cold day in late November, with the trees bare, a reminder that the Lord's Advent approaches.
Stir-up Sunday weather.
November 19, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Stir-up Sunday weather.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "deprived of his whole estate" is a reference to Parliamentarian confiscation of the estates of Royalists after defeat in the civil wars:
November 19, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "deprived of his whole estate" is a reference to Parliamentarian confiscation of the estates of Royalists after defeat in the civil wars:
Harriet Backer, 'The Altar at Tanum Church in Bærum' (1891). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Harriet Backer, 'The Altar at Tanum Church in Bærum' (1891). Den norske kirke 🇳🇴
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Shell Guide, 1955:
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Shell Guide, 1955:
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
“Between the mild days, November frosts strip the coloured leaves of the shrubs and climbers of the hedgerow so that all the fruits of early winter show more vigourously against a paler sky”
Artists: Edith & Rowland Hilder
Writer: Geoffrey Grigson
"Hooker felt no need either for omnicompetent prince or for infallible Pope. He was much more afraid of tyrannies and idolatries than of ambiguities and deadlocks."
CS Lewis in 'English Literature in the Sixteenth Century'.
CS Lewis in 'English Literature in the Sixteenth Century'.
November 18, 2025 at 3:27 PM
"Hooker felt no need either for omnicompetent prince or for infallible Pope. He was much more afraid of tyrannies and idolatries than of ambiguities and deadlocks."
CS Lewis in 'English Literature in the Sixteenth Century'.
CS Lewis in 'English Literature in the Sixteenth Century'.
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "the greatest mysteries of our religion ... the food of angels, the wine of elect souls":
November 18, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Jeremy Taylor in 'Of the Spirit of Grace', Part I, Sermon I, from the second volume of the Golden Grove sermons - "the greatest mysteries of our religion ... the food of angels, the wine of elect souls":