Now that I’ve finished putting together the AIC Bookstore catalogue, which now includes 12
publications (counting the St. Chrysostom Hymnal in 2 volumes), I’m able to turn my attention to work on the video series on The Nicene Creed. (For the full bookstore catalogue, visit our Virtual Bookstore: https://www.amazon.com/author/ronald-e-shibley).
The Nicene Creed series will provide the historical context for the calling of the Council of Nicea (325 A.D.), which was the first of the Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Church Universal. Continue reading “Nicene Creed – Episode One”
The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase – Episode Tw0
Episode Two (of two) in The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase is now available in both video and podcast forms. The focus in Episode Two is on the fourth, fifth and sixth petitions; the Doxology (in St. Matthew’s version); and a general summary of the series. The discussion of the Doxology includes a presentation on the two most likely ways the Doxology found its way into St. Matthew’s Gospel. The illustrations include art from the 9th through the early 21st Centuries. The episode runs just over 21 minutes. Watch the video Listen to the Podcast Continue reading “The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase – Episode Tw0”
The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase – Episode One
Episode One in the much-delayed AIC teaching video series, The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase is now available on our You Tube channel and also in a podcast version. The title slide includes James Tissot’s late 19th C. depiction of Jesus teaching the Disciples in charcoal, graphite and watercolor on gray wove paper, from the Life of Christ at the Brooklyn Museum. Continue reading “The Lord’s Prayer: Phrase-by-phrase – Episode One”
Lives of the Saints – Episode 14 – St. Matthew
We’re having amazing weather here in Virginia. Warm days. Cool nights. Lots of sunshine. My petunia garden, this year featuring twenty different colors and patterns, loves every minute of it. I’ve expanded my use of pedestals combined with trailing petunias to create columns of color throughout the garden.
This week I finished and uploaded Episode Fourteen in The Lives of the Saints, First Series – the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, which is focused on St. Matthew, whose Feast Day/Holy Day is September 21st. The episode highlights the themes and unique content of St. Matthew’s Gospel. Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 14 – St. Matthew”
Lives of the Saints – Episode 13
A short, 11-minute tribute to St. Bartholomew is now available on our You Tube channel and also linked from the Digital Library page at the AIC web site. St. Bartholomew/Nathanael is honored on August 24th.
There are multiple illustrations, including this c. 1190 A.D. bas relief from the West Portal at the Basilica of St. Trophime, Arles, France (the other half of the pair was used to illustrate the episode on St. James). Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 13”
Episode 12 in The Lives of the Saints – St. James
It’s been a very good week, with decent weather, a chance to get outdoors for at least one day, and several projects either completed or getting closer to completion.
On the video and podcast fronts, I completed and uploaded Episode Twelve in The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints. Episode Twelve celebrates St. James the Greater, brother of St. John, whose feast day is July 25th. Continue reading “Episode 12 in The Lives of the Saints – St. James”
Good Friday – Encore Podcasts
My wife and I both are suffering from colds this last week. In addition to coughing and sneezing, I sound like a sick bullfrog. So there won’t be any new videos or podcasts this week.
I have taken this lull to delve into the AIC podcast and print archive. I presented the entire text of In the Cross of Christ I Glory, which was a three-hour service commemorating Good Friday based upon the Seven Words plus music, in print form in Occasional Services for Anglican Worship, available from our Virtual Bookstore in both paperback and Kindle versions:
The complete URL is https://www.amazon.com/author/ronald-e-shibley. Continue reading “Good Friday – Encore Podcasts”
Lives of the Saints – Episode Ten – John the Baptist
Episode Ten in The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, was uploaded to You Tube last night. One of the longer episodes, just over 30 minutes, it offers images of and the spoken word of the man called the Last Prophet of the Old Testament and John the Forerunner. One of the illustrations is an oil on canvas work from the center panel of a multi-panel altarpiece created by Matthias Grunewald for the monastery of St. Anthony in the Alsace region of France in the early 16th C. This huge altarpiece is now in a museum.
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Lives of the Saints – Episode 9 – St. Barnabas
This week The Lives of the Saints, First Series, turns to St. Barnabas, whose Feast Day/Holy Day in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer is June 11th. St. Barnabas enters and leaves the New Testament in Acts of the Apostles. Without St. Luke’s historical and spiritual-minded account in Acts, we would know nothing of the man from Cyprus who, with St. Paul, established what would become the See of Antioch, the second See of the Church Universal. Watch the Video Listen to the Podcast Image copyright Alamy Stock Photo
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Lives of the Saints – Episode 8
Two of the lesser known saints, St. Philip and St. James (the Less), are celebrated together on May 1st. My purpose in producing the Lives of the Saints series is to bring the traditional saints to life in the modern, anti-religious, secular-dominated world of the early 21st Century. Episode Eight is illustrated with two watercolor and charcoal drawings by James Tissot, from his Life of Christ series at the Brooklyn Museum; two statues from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Vatican, carved by two of Italy’s most celebrated artists in the early 18th Century; and a remarkable drawing of the death of St. James from the Menalogion of Basil II from the Vatican archives, based on the original work made in Constantinople around 1000 A.D. According to tradition, St. James was beaten to death with a Fuller’s Rod.
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