tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911068236939343613.post6041950321685969436..comments2023-08-24T16:41:19.306+01:00Comments on Let nothing you dismay: Patrimony: a note out of seasonMichael Gollop http://www.blogger.com/profile/00076220518083389674noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911068236939343613.post-9424857719884374792009-11-19T15:40:28.683+00:002009-11-19T15:40:28.683+00:00Quite.
People forget too (do not know?) how littl...Quite.<br /><br />People forget too (do not know?) how little congregational participation there was. The people didn't actually say/sing their part: it was said for them by the clerk, who in effect performed a duet with the parson. And the "Morning Service" was very long: Mattins (with all the psalms for the day and the long readings of Cranmer's original lectionary), run together with the Litany and Ante-Communion, and ending with a sermon (doubtless not short).<br /><br />Must have been very tedious.Sir Watkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000106556898498656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911068236939343613.post-49944605058953600372009-11-19T15:18:11.724+00:002009-11-19T15:18:11.724+00:00Yes, I should have been clearer about that point. ...Yes, I should have been clearer about that point. However, exactly how much "liturgy" there would have been is open to question. Before the Oxford Movement celebrations of Holy Communion had become somewhat infrequent, monthly or quarterly in most parishes, and the descriptions we have of the "parson and clerk" reading the Prayer Book offices are far from edifying, even allowing for the exaggeration of those committed to changing the status quo .Michael Gollop https://www.blogger.com/profile/00076220518083389674noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2911068236939343613.post-23211427009310502482009-11-19T14:06:01.711+00:002009-11-19T14:06:01.711+00:00the public liturgies [...] would be performed by s...<i>the public liturgies [...] would be performed by someone slouching around in a black gown. Remember, the original ecclesiastical “riots” of the 1840s in London, Devon and elsewhere were triggered [...] by those who objected to the clergy donning the humble surplice in the pulpit.</i><br /><br />But "pulpit" is the operative word: he would have worn the surplice for the rest of the liturgy - the gown was only worn for preaching.Sir Watkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000106556898498656noreply@blogger.com