The new Podcast Homily for Second Sunday after Trinity was recorded yesterday and is now live on the Podcast Homilies-Morning Prayer and Welcome pages. For this episode the three BCP selections were ignored and Psalm 148 selected because those three readings will be used later in Trinity Season (11th, 2oth & 24th Sundays after Trinity). The substitution is being made to avoid duplicate readings during the important new series of homilies.
Psalm 148 is one of the six doxologies that close out the Psalter. Each of them includes one or more variations of the phrase Praise to the Lord. The Vulgate Latin title of Psalm 148 is Laudate Dominum. Psalm 148 is one of four Psalms with those opening words (Ps. 117, 147, 148, 150). For this episode I chose an image from bottom half of a page in the Stuttgart Psalter. In the AIC Bookstore Publication, The Prayer Book Psalter: Picture Book Edition, the illustration on page 414 is a wonderfully-detailed illumination depicting Christ with two angels looking down upon several of those named in the Psalm offering praise to the Lord. There is nothing else like it in the world’s archives, with colors mostly not seen again until the 19th C. The Stuttgart copy, bought by a member of the German nobility around 1889, is the only surviving edition (if anyone knows of another, please let me know) of this amazing work.
Thank you so much for your interest in this site. We continue to look for ways to provide Christians with easy access to traditional teachings. On this site, readers can click to the teaching media of their choice: in print, in audio form and in video form. No software is required. Just click and the selected video or audo file will open and play. The books, of course, have to be ordered through my Amazon Author Central page.
Work continues on our next Bookstore Publication, Angels: the Book, which will be published later this year with about 224 pages and somewhere around 150 images, most of them rarely seen by the general public. The sources includes frescoes, icons, illuminations, mosaics, paintings, engravings, etchings and a map. There is still a lot of work to be done in the editing and in the composition of the final two chapters, the last of which includes 18th, 19th, 20th and 21st C. examples of angels in popular media. Other chapters are focused on angels in Christian worship and Christian music.
Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
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