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My revised Podcast Homily for Fourth Sunday in Advent, on the theme “The First Gift of Christmas,” is available on the Podcast Homilies page. The revised version includes cross-references to other relevant material elsewhere on this site.
Later today or tomorrow I will be posting links to the new versions of two AIC Seasonal Video series: Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve and The Twelve Days of Christmas.
Yesterday I uploaded all seven revised episodes of our Seasonal Video series, The Great “O” Antiphons. The series is available in video through our YouTube channel and in podcast versions through links on the Podcast Archive page. The A.D. 2018 revisions modify the presentations style, introduce many of the examples of Church art, especially those from Western Europe between the 9th and the 15th C., and offer new voice responses. Each episode includes a hymn.
The series follows the model of the original service from the Latin tradition in the 12th C. After 9th centuries., there still is no better teaching service offering instruction in the Christian Faith.
Dec. 18th – O Sapientia (Wisdom)
Dec. 19th – O Adonai (Lord)
Dec. 20th – O Radix Jesse (Root of Jesse)
Dec. 21st – O Clavis David (Key of David)
Dec. 22nd – O Oriens (Dayspring)
Dec. 23rd – O Rex Gentium (King of Nations)
Dec. 24th – O Emmanuel (God with us)
Visit the Digital Library page for the videos
Visit the Podcast Archive page for the podcasts.
Later this will I will release the new Podcast Homily for Fourth Sunday in Advent and the new version of Lessons & Carols for Christmas Eve.
May God bless you in all that you do in His Name. Amen. Glory be to God for all things! Amen.
My revised and extended Podcast Homily for Third Sunday in Advent is now available. It is another of the themed-homilies for Advent Season, in this instance, Rejoice in the Love of God. Third Sunday in Advent is represented in the traditional Advent Wreath by a rose-colored candle. Visitors may benefit from the companion AIC Seasonal Video series, Advent: a Season of Penitence & Preparation. Episode Two features commentary on the Collect, Epistle and Gospel readings for Third Sunday in Advent as well as the Fourth Sunday in Advent.
Great new changes are coming next year. Instead of investing a lot of time and energy in a proposed Nativity book, I’ve decided to upgrade our existing 45-episode Bible Study Video series. The Bible Study video series began as live streaming-video programs broadcast from my former parish nearly a decade ago. Since the original version was produced, the AIC’s style of videos has changed dramatically, both in content and in appearance on the screen. In addition, the new version will eliminate all obsolete references to persons, places and programs which are no longer relevant to the AIC’s online ministry.
For the new series, which as you see, has a new, more accurate title, the programs will incorporate the new style made possible by a change in software and the broadening of the AIC’s library of historic art. We now have access to almost 1,000 images, including illuminations, icons, mosaics, frescoes, paintings, engravings, etchings and historic documents the oldest dating to the 3rd century. The image in the title slide is the first page from the Gospel of St. John from a late 9th C.-early 10th C. illuminated Gospel made in Belgium. The book is known by many names, the Coronation Gospels, the Athelstan Gospels and the Cotton Gospels. Inprincipio is Latin for “In the beginning…”, the opening words of St. John’s prelude to this unique Gospel account. The original is in the digital collections of the British Library, London, England.
Another major change to be incorporated into the revised Bible Study series is internal cross-referencing to Other AIC Resources on the same topics, words, phrases or theological concepts, including our Christian Education and Seasonal Videos; Podcast Homilies (also being revised and expanded in 2019 A.D.), and the AIC Bookstore Publications. My objective is to help viewers take full advantage of the resources provided through the AIC Web Site, most of which are offered free of charge.
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May the Lord bless you in all that you do in His Name. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
I have now finished Phase I of the rebuilding of the Podcast Homilies page I announced in October. Viewers and listeners will now find new links to freshly-recorded versions of my four theme-word or theme-phrase homilies for the Four Sundays in Advent; plus new Podcast Homilies for Christmas Day, First Sunday after Christmas Day, and Second Sunday after Christmas Day; and revised homilies for Epiphany (Day) and all six Sundays after Epiphany. Within each homily are internal cross-references to Other AIC Resources on the same words, readings, topics or phrases.
These Other AIC Resources include:
Phase 2 in the rebuild, to be completed in January A.D. 2019, will include revised Podcast Homilies, with internal cross-references, for Gesima (Pre-Lent); Lent; and Easter. The texts for all three seasons have been written and need only a final review before recording. Texts for Good Friday remain unchanged, since they were revised in Spring A.D. 2018. Phase 3, to be completed in February A.D. 2019, will include Podcast Homilies for Whitsunday/Pentecost, Trinity Sunday and the Sundays after Trinity. The texts for Trinity season are only in the early stage of editing. Both Phase 2 and Phase 3 will be work to be accomplished in the cold, dark and wet days of Winter in Virginia, when working on the yard, garden and house cannot be comfortably accomplished.
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Episode Two in the AIC Seasonal Video series, Christmas: the Nativity of Our Lord is now available in both video and podcast versions. Episode Two is focused on the Collect, Epistle and Gospel readings for First Sunday after Christmas Day and Second Sunday after Christmas Day, plus the 17 hymns or carols of Christmas in our St. Chrysostom Hymnal and which are not in the venerable 1940 Hymnal or are arranged to different tunes.
Watch the video. Listen to the Podcast.
Episode Two completes the cycle of having a teaching video for every season on the Anglican Church Calendar from the start of Advent through the end of Trinity season with Sunday next before Advent. Videos for Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Gesims (or Pre-Lent), Lent, Easter (up to Ascension), Trinity Sunday and Whitsunday plus Whitsuntide, Trinity season are now linked from the Digital Library page with Podcast versions linked from the Podcast Archive page. All programs are displayed in calendar order, with Advent at the top and Trinity at the bottom. The video versions include illustrations in the form of icons, frescoes, painting, murals, mosaics, paintings, etchings, photographs, illuminations, engravings and miniatures from the religious traditions of both the Western and Eastern Churches. In each series you viewers and listeners will find cross-references to Other AIC Resources on the same topics, key words, and phrases.
In other on-going work, I’ve been updating the Podcast Homilies series, originally produced in 2015 A.D. based on 12-minutes homilies I read at my former parish. The revised A.D. 2018 version will include additional material plus cross-referencing to Other AIC Resources on similar topics, words, or phrases, including our Seasonal, Christian Education and Bible Study videos and our AIC Bookstore Publications. The new versions should be available well before the start of Advent season. Also in production are revised versions of The Great “O” Antiphons for Advent; Lessons & Carols for Christmas Eve; and The Twelve Days of Christmas series.
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May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
Just a little bit of introspection today. I thought readers might want to know what’s in store for 2019 A.D. at the AIC web site. With the coming completion of the Seasonal Video series (with Christmas: The Nativity of Our Lord‘s Episode Two in late October), attention turns to restructuring the Podcast Homilies platform, last changed early in 2015 A.D.
The Podcast Homilies page grew out of the 12-15 minutes homilies I delivered before my retirement from pulpit ministry. The PH series is primarily focused on the Epistle and Gospel readings for the Sundays in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. The restructuring will involved integrating the Podcast Homilies into the inventory of teaching material available through Other AIC Resources. For each of the Podcast Homilies I will add mentions of where the verses cited in the script are used in the 1928 B.C.P. liturgies and also cross-referencing each homily to where the same words, phrases, concepts, subjects are treated in Other AIC materials.
When the project is complete, hopefully by late Winter 2018-2019 A,D., readers and listeners will be able to take full advantage of the greatly-enlarged library of materials available on or through the AIC Web Site. For example: in a homily which includes a reading from the Gospel of St. Luke, there will be cross-references to where the same reading appears in our Bible Study video series New Testament: Gospels; the appropriate Seasonal Video series with episode number; appropriate Christian Education series (Nicene Creed; Lord’s Prayer; Lives of the Saints; The War on Christianity); appropriate AIC Bookstore Publications, especially Layman’s Lexicon.
As always, thank you for your interest and support for this online ministry. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
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.
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Other illustrations include an early 11th C. illumination from the Bamberg Apocalypse; a 14th C. French depiction of the coronation of Charlesmagne at Rome in 800 A.D.; a 14th C. oil on panel of Malachi by Duccio di Buoninsegna; a 10th C. depiction of St. John writing his Gospel from the Ottonian era of the Holy Roman Empire; a 13th C. mosaic at the Basilica of St. Mark, Venice; a circa 1420 A.D. Nativity scene in colored inks on parchment made in the Netherlands; F. X. Zettler’s elegant and beautiful stained glass window of the Nativity at St. Gertrude’s Church, Stockholm, Sweden; and Nativity murals from St. Joseph’s Villa Chapel, Richmond, Va from the AIC Bookstore publication, Paintings on Light.
Episode Two has been recorded but not yet place into video format. It is focused on First Sunday after Christmas Day, Second Sunday after Christmas Day; the AIC Seasonal Video series, The Twelve Days of Christmas, soon to be available in a new edition; and, finally, the fourteen hymns in The St. Chrysostom Hymnal that are either not in the venerable 1940 Hymnal or are used by different, more easily-sung tunes.
I will also be recording new versions of The Great “O” Antiphons and Lessons and Carols for Christmas Eve in late October and early November. I spoke yesterday at a Clericus of the Orthodox Anglican Church, meeting at St. Joseph’s Villa Chapel, on the topic, The Mistaken Quest for Relevance.
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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:
Today shall ye know that the Lord will come and deliver you.
And in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord.
Tomorrow the iniquity of the earth shall be done away.
And the Saviour of the world shall reign over us.
The Lord cometh; go ye out to meet him, and say ye: Great is his dominion, and of his kingdom there shall be no ending.
The mighty God, the Ruler, the Prince of Peace.
Minister & People: Alleluia! Alleluia! Alleluia
For the other series I have been working on, Christmas: the Nativity of Our Lord (two episodes) and The Great “O” Antiphons (seven episodes) the scripts and slides are complete. My plan is to record both episodes of the Christmas program during the week of October 1st. On the same November evening as the Christmas Eve Antiphons are recorded, the good people of Holy Cross Anglican are also going to participate in the recording to their responses each each of the seven antiphons for The Great “O” Antiphons. Without any unexpected technical or other issues, I anticipate the recording stage to be complete during the first full week of November, with the production of the finished video the following week.
As always, thank you for your interest in and support of this Internet-based ministry.
May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
I’ve been busy updating The Great “O” Antiphons programs which were last updated in 2015 A.D., just after my retirement from pulpit ministry. Since then I’ve learned a few new tricks and acquired many more images from the archives of the Western and Eastern Church traditions. As viewers will have noticed, the style of AIC presentations has evolved since the launching of The Anglican Internet Church on the Web. So far in 2018 A.D. I have updated our videos for Epiphany. Gesima (Pre-Lent) and Lent; expanded available offerings for Good Friday; and launched new series for the Easter, Trinity and Advent seasons. I’ve completed the slides and script for a new 2-episode Christmas series, which will be available in October; and I am revising The Twelve Days of Christmas series, also with new slides and a revised style, with the revised version to be released in early November.
The Great “O” Antiphons program for the last seven days in Advent will remain a 7-episode series. It will include new illustrations, including the 14th C. Christ image above and the David graphic at left. I’ve made the style consistent with the format used for the new and revised programs mentioned above, which reflect capabilities of iMovie for the Mac (vs. the iPad version).
The 2018 A.D. edition will also include new Voice and Response contributions by the members of a local church. These will be heard in the closing response to each of the seven Antiphons and in the closing Antiphons for Christmas Eve.
The introduction of all these remaining revised versions during the months of October and November will mark the completion of the AIC Seasonal Videos for each of the seasons on the Anglican Church Calendar. There will now be teaching videos, written primarily for the Laity but also useful for Clergy, for every Sunday in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer. I hope these will prove useful for understanding the meaning of, and appreciating the spiritual beauty of, traditional Anglican worship.
As always, thank you for your interest in and support for this Internet-based ministry. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name. Amen. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
