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Our live broadcast of Morning Prayer and Holy Communion was connected and went into the ether. But it didn’t come out on the YouTube end. We did three test broadcasts about 10 min. each and they worked!
This week we’ll find out what happened. And we will try again at 10;30 AM on Sunday, April 19th, with Holy Communion for First Sunday after Easter.
Since August 2010 A.D. the AIC has provided traditional Anglicans with teaching, study and worship materials available in electronic and print media. In this time of crisis for the Church and the country, I have decided to come out of retirement from pulpit ministry in order to broadcast live on Easter Day with a Morning Prayer/Holy Communion liturgy.
While I can’t solve the problem of lack of access to the Holy Eucharist, I can offer a live service on Sunday via our YouTube channel. I will be broadcasting live from a makeshift altar in my sunroom in Mechanicsville, Va. There are technical issues to overcome, with luck and grace, I hope to be on the air with traditional worship at 10:30 A.M. on Sunday.
I’ve also posted links to our Good Friday and Eastertide video series on the Home Page of this site. If the broadcast works as planned, I expect to offer a complete Sunday service with music and a homily until this crisis and over and we can all resume normal Sunday worship.
This year I’m forgoing my usual message about the true meaning of Epiphany – vs. the secular view even among many clergy who should know better. If you want to hear that message, Go to Episode One in our Seasonal Video series, Epiphany: the Manifestation of Christ to the Gentiles. Or listen to the Podcast version of the same.
Instead I offer some New Year advice for those concerned about the state of the media, the lack of civility, and the general decline of standards everywhere. Dealing with it can be stressful, but there is a way to reduce the stress and allow anyone to improve their focus on truly important things. My advice is summed up in a slogan:
Instead of allowing the media to set your agenda and affect your blood pressure, just turn it off and tune it out.
Give the idea a try for a few months. I’ll bet you will have more peace of mind, which will enable you to have more time for family and friends and to practice your religion as you see fit!
Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
At the AIC we teach the concept of celebrating the Church Calendar. Each season has its own focus and now that Advent is here, Anglicans should celebrate their heritage. Here are a couple of suggestions:
The AIC Great “O” Antiphons videos for each of the last seven days in Advent, with prayers, antiphons, illustrations and music. Program length: 10-12 min. Podcast versions in MP3 format are linked from the Podcast Archive page.
December 21st – O Clavis David
Episode Twenty in the AIC’s The New Testament: Gospels Bible Study Video series was completed in the revised version earlier today and was uploaded this afternoon. Topics include the final unique parable, the Pharisee and the Tax Collector (Publican in KJV); plus commentary on unique content including the Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain, the Healing of the Ten Lepers and the Sending and Return of the Seventy. Other illustrations are an engraving by Gustav Dore’, two watercolors by James Tissot, and an early 13th C. miniature illumination of Jesus Teaching (originally used to illustrate Matthew 5).
This week’s featured illustration is from the Codex Aureus of Echternach, produced in the 2nd Qtr of the 11th C. at the Benedictine Monastery of St. Willibrod, Echternach, then Germany and now Luxembourg, from the collection of the German National Library, Nuremberg, Germany, which acquired the manuscript in the 20th C. in order to keep it in Germany. In the original the scene was paired with the Healing of Blind Bartimaeus on the bottom line on a three-line page with six scenes.. The 96 dpi version barely does justice to the original. I’ve limited its size in order to enhance the detail.
Watch Episode Twenty. Listen to the Podcast of Episode Twenty
Episode Twenty-one and Episode Twenty-two were recorded yesterday. I have now completed the rebuild of the script and slides for Episode Forty-five, the final episode on the Gospel of St. John. On the present schedule I hope to complete and release one video/podcast per week through the end of the year and complete the uploads in January A.D. 2020. I’ll have to double up somewhere, with two per week, if my voice will permit, in order to complete the work by then.
As always, thanks for you interest and support. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
After a one-week delay the next four revised Podcast Homilies for Fourteenth through Eighteenth Sundays after Trinity are now linked from the Podcast Homilies page. The remaining revisions should be completed before 21 June. Apologies to our regular viewers for the delay.
Meanwhile, I’ve been working on revisions to the New Testament: Gospels video series and expect to begin uploading the episodes on the Gospel of St. Mark before the end of June 2019 A.D.
As always, thank you for your interest and support. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name! Amen. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
As promised last week, the next four revised Podcast Homilies for Trinity Season, for Eleventh through Fourteenth Sunday, have now been uploaded. My plan is to complete the series before 15 June, with T-15 to T-18 during the week of Memorial Day.
As always, thank you for your interest and support. Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
Episode Four in the revised New Testament: Gospels Bible Study Video series, delayed last week owing to technical issues, is now online. The focus continues on the Life of Christ as fulfillment of Old Testament prophecy. The episode begins with the coming of John the Baptist fulfilling prophecies of Isaiah and Malachi and ends with the Triumphal Entry into Jerusalem. The featured illustration for this post is miniature fresco of scenes in the Life of Christ by Italian artist Giotto di Bondoni from his series of frescoes on the north wall, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy.
Episode Seven in the AIC’s newest Seasonal Video series is now available in both video and podcast versions. The subjects are the Collect, Epistle and Gospel readings for Sixthteenth through Nineteenth Sundays after Trinity, which includes four more writings from the Pauline Epistles and two pericopes each from the Gospels of St. Luke (Raising of the Son of the Widow of Nain; Healing of the Blind Man with dropsy; and the Parable of the Chief Seats) and St. Matthew (The Greatest Commandment question and the Healing of Palsied Man).
Watch the Video of Episode 7. Listen to the Podcast version of Episode 7
The episode includes 13 illustrations (not counting repeat uses) from the 6th C. through the early 20th C. I’ve added more images to our archive of St. Paul but also found another image of St. Matthew, whose images are quite hard to find. This one is from a Russian Gospel book produced in the last quarter of the 15th C., showing St. Matthew composing his Gospel. The colors, textures and tones are exceptional. The work is credited to a monk, Michael Medovartsev. It comes from the Egerton MSS 3045, Folio 10v from the Byzantine illuminated manuscripts collection at the British Library, London, England.
One of the changes made during this series is better correction of what is said and presented in each episode with similar work in the AIC archive of videos, podcast and publications. Each episode closes with a short review of source, date, episode or page number of our Bookstore publications, Seasonal and Christian Education video, and Bible Study videos. I hope viewers find the information useful.
The script, slides and sound for Episode Eight and Episode Nine, the final episode, are complete. The work that remains is coordination of the sound to the pictures. I hope to complete that work during the next two weeks.
The next work in the series is Advent: A Season of Penitence and Preparation, which will premier in late September or early October. The format will be the same as the other Seasonal Videos based on the seasons in the Church Year. Content will incorporate some material available in existing AIC videos and books.
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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.
As promised last week, Episode Four in the Trinitytide series is now available in both video and podcast versions. I’ve used several of the images of St, Paul which have been added to our library either from the public domain or from various picture vendors. The most unusual one is today’s featured image, an oil on panel by Dutch painter and sculptor Lucas van Leyden, painted circa 1520 A.D. and now in the collection at Yale University Gallery of Art, New Haven, CT. It is distinctly Western and presents St. Paul as if he were one of van Leyden’s clients sitting in his studio for a portrait, as opposed to the more fierce facial expression and bodily pose favored in Eastern Church art. As is customary in Western Church art, St. Paul holds a book and a sword, the latter a symbol of the manner of his death. Traditional accounts say that St. Paul was beheaded outside Rome around 68 A.D. during the reign of Emperor Nero. Many claims have been made about the whereabouts of his remains, but not, as far as I am aware, are widely accepted.
Episode Four provides the full texts and origin of the Collects for Sixth, Seventh and Eighth Sundays after Trinity. Commentary, summaries and key quotations are provided for the Epistle and Gospel readings. I’ve also mentioned the next three of the eleven hymns to the Holy Trinity from The St. Chrysostom Hymnal. The final two hymns will be mentioned in Episode Five, which is focused on the Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Sundays after Trinity.
Watch the Video. Listen to the Podcast
This coming week I will be acquiring three more impressions of St. Paul, all three in stained glass from the 19th C, including his Conversion, the warning of Agabus concerning his arrest, and a full size, frontal view of St. Paul with book and sword.
As always, I thank viewers for their interest and support. May God bless you in all that you do in His Name. Amen! Glory be to God for all things! Amen!
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