The long-delayed Episode Six in the AIC Christian Education video series The War on Christianity is now online in both video and podcast versions. Subtitled “The First Line of Defense,” the episode is focused on Part One of the Te Deum Laudamus canticle (from the opening sentence to “also the Holy Ghost, the Comforter”). The episode includes a summary of the canticle’s history and a verse-by-verse commentary on its meaning and Scriptural warrant, with illustrations from the 6th through the 21st C. This powerful and inspiring Canticle is the first suggested Canticle (or “Hymn” in the rubric in page 10) following the First Lesson in Morning Prayer.
The Te Deum Laudamus, so named after its first words in Latin, meaning We praise Thee, O God, is among the very best summaries of the most essential doctrines of Christianity — everything from angels, cherubim and seraphim; martyrs and apostles; to the Holy Spirit. The slides include an annotated version of the text with emphasis and pause indicators. To save time in the presentation, the text is read rather than chanted. This episode is the first of several on the concept of understanding the teachings of the Church as the best “first line of defense” for individual Christians in the secular world’s on-going War on Christianity.
Watch Episode Six. Listen to the Podcast of Episode Six.
Episode Seven, focused on Parts Two and Three, will be uploaded later in February or in the first full week of March.
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Episode Two in the AIC Seasonal Video series, Lent A.D. 2018, is now available on our YouTube channel. The subjects of Episode Two are other commemorations of Lent (Lenten meals, prayers and music) and the Collects, Epistle and Gospel readings, and suggested seasonal music, for First Sunday in Lent through and including the Fourth Sunday in Lent. I’ve found some additional illustrations, including a stained glass window of St. Paul in East Anglia, England (above, left), to which I applied perspective correction. I used this one because, since all four epistle readings are from the writings of St. Paul, I was running out of images not previously used (either in Episode One or in other AIC Video series). Also in the episode is a Russian Orthodox icon of St. Paul in flowing robes from the 18th C., from the iconostasis at the Church of the Transfiguration, Kizhi Monastery, Karelia, Russia. The music suggestions come from the AIC Bookstore publication, The St. Chrysostom Hymnal, which include hymns either not in the 1940 Hymnal or which are in it but set to different tunes.
The first episode in the newest AIC Seasonal Video series, Lent A.D. 2018, is now available in both video and podcast version. The series will include three episode. Episode One is focused on the origin and meaning of the Feast of Lent and an examination of the two services for Ash Wednesday in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. In Episode Two I will discuss the Collect, Episode and Gospel readings, and appropriate music for the first four Sundays in Lent. In Episode Three, the focus will be on the final two Sundays plus a discussion of Maundy Thursday.
Episode Two in our newest Seasonal Video series, Gesima: the Sundays in Pre-Lent, was uploaded yesterday. The second and last episode in the series, it is focused on the Collect, Epistle and Gospel for both Sexagesima Sunday and Quinquagesima Sunday plus commentary on Shrove Tuesday, the last day before Lent.
I’ve been working on the slides and script for Episode One in the Lent A.D. 2018 seasonal video. which must be uploaded days before Ash Wednesday, 2/14. There will be three main areas of interest in Episode One: church meaning of the season; origin of the season; and discussion of services (Holy Communion and Penitential Office) for Ash Wednesday. The first draft of the title/masthead is at left. The image of a draped Cross is copyright Can Stock Photo, Inc./Robhainer. There will be pictures of Anglican Churches around the world, especially altars, including St. Paul’s in London. Episode Two will be focused on First, Second, Third, and Fourth Sundays in Lent. I’m still searching for pictures to use in the series. Any suggestions would be welcome. Pass them along to me via email at: front.stjohnanglican@earthlink.net.
The next teaching series in the AIC Seasonal Video category, Gesima: the Sundays of Pre-Lent, begins today with Episode One. In Episode One I discuss the origin (both the historical and language) of the name, the season’s importance for traditional Anglican worship and a discussion of the first Sunday in the season, Septuagesima Sunday, including appropriate music.
Episode Three, the final episode, in the AIC Seasonal Video series, Epiphany: the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles, is now available in both video and podcast versions. Episode Three is exclusively focused on the Second Sunday after Trinity through the Sixth Sunday after Trinity, including the complicated rules for their celebration in years with both 26 and 27 Sundays after Trinity. For each Sunday there is a discussion of the theme of the day, the Epistle and Gospel readings, and appropriate music for the day or season. Includes music added for the St. Chrysostom Hymnal, complete in one volume, released earlier this year.
Episode Two in the revised 2018 A.D. edition of Epiphany: the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles is now available both on our YouTube channel and through the episode links on the Digital Library page. The focus of Episode Two has been changed since last week’s blog post. The topics are Epiphany Eve, Epiphany (Day) and the First Sunday after Epiphany, including appropriate Scripture readings from the 1928 Book of Common Prayer, the Proper for the Feast, the timeline of how and when St. Matthew’s “wise men” acquired a number and names, and seasonal music for Epiphany in The St. Chrysostom Hymnal (now available in a single volume paperback edition).
Yesterday I uploaded to our YouTube channel Episode One in the 2018 A.D. version of Epiphany: the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. The series has been revised and expanded into three episodes. Episode One is focused on the sharp difference between the secular and Church meaning of Epiphany and the timing and manner of the development of Epiphany as its own Season in the Church Calendar. The series includes a revised script and many new illustrations and adjustments to format, including more slides, more white background per slide, and cross-references to related AIC videos, publications and podcasts.
On this the 12th and final day of the Twelve Days of Christmas, Jan. 5th, the key words are GRACE & FAITH. The music is Hark! The Herald Angels Sing by Charles Wesley (1789 A.D.), played to the tune Mendelssohn.
On the Twelfth Day of Christmas, Jan, 4th, the key words are Glorifying God. The music for this episode in the AIC Video series, The Twelve Days of Christmas, is Good Christian Men, Rejoice, using John Mason Neal’s 1853 translation from the Latin carol, In Dulci Jubilo. It’s an arrangement frequently used in the background for street singers in movies, television and videos on Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol.
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