After repeated delays for technical reasons, Episode One in the revised AIC Bible Study Video series, The New Testament: Gospels, is now available in both video and podcast version. The new version is the third to be produced. The first was a series of live videocasts from my former parish. The second edition was introduced in A.D. 2015 after my retirement from pulpit ministry at Epiphany A.D. 2014.
Version Three includes many improvements, including a revised format more consistent with the style of the more recent AIC videos; many more examples of historic art from the 6th through the 20th C. from archives which have been digitized for wider audiences; and more direct quotations of Scripture, especially in the episodes on the Gospels of St. Matthew and St. Mark, which were the earliest in the series presented in a different format than later episodes. The series retains the original focus on teaching for the Laity and the informal style of presentation.
Watch the Video of Episode One Listen to the Podcast of Episode One
Among the examples of historic art included in Episode One is Luke Writing His Gospel, an illumination in tempera and gold on parchment produced in the region of Constantinople in the late 11th to early 12th C. I applied perspective correction to the original image from Ms Harley 5785, Folio 187v, British Library, London, England. Our archive now includes nearly a thousand such images from libraries, museums, churches, and government archives in England, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Macedonia, Bulgaria and the United States. These historic images are both beautiful and instructive on the spiritual message in the scenes depicted. I have included works in nearly every artistic medium, including icons, frescos, mosaics, oil paintings, watercolors, etchings and engravings. All examples which have been modified for correction of perspective and other flaws with the objective of presenting a finished work more like its original shape are so identified in the credit lines. Examples from many libraries and other sources can only be used for non-commerical purposes. I have removed the links to all video and podcast versions of the earlier series.
The text and slides for Episode Two through Episode Sixteen, the latter including material from the opening chapters of the Gospel of St. Luke, have been completed. Each needs to be converted into video form, which is a multi-step and time-consuming process, but I hope to release one episode per week throughout 2019 A.D. until all 45 episodes in the series are complete. Things that can upset the schedule include the temptation to go back into finished work to add historic art more recently discovered.
As always, thank you for your interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
The revised version of our unique Christmas Eve video, Lessons & Carols for Christmas Eve is now available in video and podcast format. Many of the “new” historic Church art images added to our other programs have been incorporated, as well as new voice responses for the opening words, which repeat the closing antiphons for the companion series, The Great “O” Antiphons (also now available in seven revised episodes linked from the Digital Library and Podcast Archive pages. My thanks to Fr. Ken Mills and his congregation at Holy Cross Anglican, Midlothian, VA for providing the voice responses.
I’ve completed and uploaded Episode One in Christmas: The Nativity of Our Lord, part of the final link in our chain of teaching videos for all the seasons in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. The series will have two episodes. Episode One offers discussion of the evolution of the Christmas tradition; Anglican traditions of Christmas; and discussion and reading of both the first and second set of Collect, Epistle and Gospel readings for Christmas Day. The series is illustrated with material from the 10th through the 20th C. The oldest is a Byzantine-style illumination of the Nativity and the Annunciation to the Shepherds from the Codex Egberti, a Gospel book prepared in the Scriptorium of the Reichenau Monastery, Reichenau, Germany, between 980 and 993 A.D. for the incumbent bishop of Trier. I applied perspective correction to the original file. The Codex is part of the collection at the Trier Library, Trier, Germany.
A new 2018 A.D/ edition of the AIC Seasonal Video Lessons & Carols for Christmas Eve is nearing completion. It will have it a new look, one consistent with the style of all our other Seasonal Video series which were revised and improved earlier this year. I’ve also added historic art from the greatly-expanded AIC archive. The sound track will be recorded on November 1st, with the congregation at Holy Cross Anglican, Midlothian, Va providing the voice responses to the opening verses, The Christmas Eve Antiphons, I used each Christmas Eve at my former parish. Here’s the complete text:
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