September
9 - Requiem (black)
10 - Edmund James Peck, Apostle to the Inuit (red)
11 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
12 - TRINITY XV (proper 24) (green)
13 - St Cyprian of Carthage (red), I Evensong of Holy Cross
14 - Holy Cross Day (crimson) (proper p. 422)
15 - Our Lady of Sorrows (blue and white) (Sacramentary 2628)
16 - St Ninian of Galloway (white)
17 - Requiem (black)
18 - Founders, Benefactors, and Missionaries of the Church of Canada (white)
19 - St Theodore of Tarsus (white)
20 - TRINITY XVI (proper 25) (green), comm. John Coleridge Patterson
21 - St Matthew the Evangelist (red) (proper p. 423)
22 - Requiem (black)
23 - Requiem (black)
24 - Requiem (black)
25 - St Sergius of Moscow (white)
26 - TRINITY XVII (proper 26) (green)
27 - Lancelot Andrewes (white)
28 - Requiem (black)
29 - Michaelmas (white or gold or best) (proper p. 424)
30 - St Jerome (white)
October
1 - Requiem (black)
2- Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
3 - TRINITY XVIII and St Francis' Eve (proper 27) (green) Blessing of Animals
4 - St Francis of Assisi (white)
5 - Requiem (black)
6 - Requiem (black)
7 - Requiem (black)
8 - Requiem (black)
9 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
10 - TRINITY XIX (proper 28) (green)
11 - Requiem (black)
12 - Requiem (black)
13 - St Edward the Confessor (white or yellow)
14 - St Teresa of Avila (white)
15 - St John of the Cross (white)
16 - St Ignatius Loyola (white)
17 - TRINITY XX (proper 29) (green)
18 - St Luke the Evangelist (red) (proper p. 425)
19 - Holy Protomartyrs of Canada (red)
20 - Requiem (black)
21 - Requiem (black)
22 - Requiem (black)
23 - St James of Jerusalem (red)
24 - TRINITY XXI (proper 30) (green)
25 - Requiem (black)
26 - Alfred the Great (white)
27 - Requiem (black)
28 - Ss Simon & Jude (red) (proper p. 426)
29 - James Hannington and Companions (red)
30 - John Wycliffe and Jan Hus (red)
31 - REFORMATION DAY (red) (Intercommunion concelebrations encouraged) (proper p. 326, FAtS); I Evensong of All Saints
November
1 - All Saints' Day (white and red) (proper p. 427)
2 - All Souls' Day (black) (proper p. 429)
3 - Richard Hooker (white)
4 - Saints of the Old Testament (white)
5 - St Elizabeth (white) (Sacramentary 2818)
6 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
7 - SUNDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF ALL SAINTS (proper 32) (white and red)
8 - St Willibrord of Utrecht (white or yellow)
9 - Requiem (black)
10 - St Leo the Great (white)
11 - St Martin of Tours (white)
12 - Charles Simeon (white)
13 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
14 - TRINITY XXIV (proper 33) (green)
15 - Samuel Seabury (white or red)
16 - St Margaret of Scotland (white)
17 - St Hugh of Lincoln (white)
18 - St Hilda of Whitby (white)
19 - St Elizabeth of Hungary (white)
20 - St Edmund the Martyr (red)
21 - THE REIGN OF CHRIST (best) (Benediction follows Mass) Solemnity of Title in the Diocese of Montréal
22 - Requiem (black)
23 - St Clement of Rome (red)
24 - Requiem (black)
25 - Requiem (black) (In the Order of the Holy Cross, the feast of James Otis Sargent Huntington) (white)
26 - Requiem (black)
27 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
28 - THE FIRST SUNDAY IN ADVENT (purple or dark blue)
29 - Advent Feria (purple or dark blue)
30 - St Andrew the Apostle (red) (proper p. 430)
December
1 - Advent feria
2 - Advent feria
3 - St Francis Xavier (white)
4 - Nicholas Ferrar (white)
5 - THE SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT, comm. S. Clement of Alexandria
6 - St Nicholas of Myra (white)
7 - St Ambrose of Milan (white)
8 - The Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (white and blue) (lections FAtS)
9 - Prophets of the Old Testament (red)
10 - Advent Feria
11 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
12 - THE THIRD SUNDAY IN ADVENT (rose) (Litany in Procession is omitted)
13 - Advent Feria (purple or dark blue)
14 - Simon Gibbons (white)
15-17 - Advent feria (purple or dark blue)
18 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
19 - THE FOURTH SUNDAY IN ADVENT (purple or dark blue)
20 - 23 Advent feria
24 - Vigil of Christmas (purple) (Sacramentary no. 1053)
25 - Christmas Day (white or gold or best)
26 - FIRST SUNDAY AFTER CHRISTMAS (white) (proper p. 276)
27 - St John the Evangelist (red)
28 - Holy Innocents (red) (proper p. 398); Ordination of Ludmila Javorova, 1970
29 - St Thomas Becket (red)
30 - Christmas Feria (white)
31 - John West (white); Vigil of the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus (purple and white) (Sacramentary no. 1112)
January
1 - the Octave Day of Christmas, being the Naming & Circumcision of Jesus (white) (proper p. 277)
2 - SECOND SUNDAY OF CHRISTMAS (white) (proper p. 278)
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Emancipation Day (August 1)
Proper 2153 in the Sacramentary.
I have obtained a lovely little gem: a leaflet from a Procession and Solemn High Mass of St Charles Stuart at St Bart's. I hope to find some way to scan it.
I have obtained a lovely little gem: a leaflet from a Procession and Solemn High Mass of St Charles Stuart at St Bart's. I hope to find some way to scan it.
Thought
Protestant thought tends to bristle at the Incarnational implications of the Marian cult. But what could be more Incarnational than a peasant girl in Palestine bearing her Redeemer and thereby being made "More honorable than the Cherubim, and more glorious beyond compare than the Seraphim"?
(In the Anglican Gradual & Sacramentary that seems to have been more or less adopted by the SCP, the Saturday Mass of Our Lady is titled the "Votive Eucharist of the Incarnation).
(In the Anglican Gradual & Sacramentary that seems to have been more or less adopted by the SCP, the Saturday Mass of Our Lady is titled the "Votive Eucharist of the Incarnation).
Monday, March 29, 2010
Hooker on arbitrary law, from the Masoret blog
A scholar of the writings of the Anglican divines on halakha has a pair of posts worth reading on chukim - laws or mitzvot having no immediately evident rationale but deemed binding in Judaism by virtue of their divine origin. I found this a timely read given the current same-sex controversy, which is at one level about what place, if any, such laws have in Christianity (hence the hitherto unanswered refrain of the proof-text-weary, "But what's wrong with homosexuality?")
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Passiontide picture treat
From St Mark's, Locust Street (the other Anglo-Catholic church in Philadelphia!) courtesy of Davis D'Ambly.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Ms Coulter Goes to Ottawa
Currently the blogosphere is reeling over an incident at the University of Ottawa, where Ann Coulter was unable to participate in a forum due to "security concerns" (protesters disrupting the event). Inevitably perhaps, the spectre of what the Bishop of Willesden recently called "the illiberal liberal canard" over at the SOF boards has loomed large. There's nothing the hard right loves more than a self-avowed champion of tolerance is caught in the act of intolerance!
I once attended a service at the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto with family members who are active there. In the sermon, the minister grappled with precisely this paradox. How do progressive folk respond to intolerance without stooping to it?
It's unfortunate that this incident is being used to portray Canada as an effete socialist state feeble on free speech protection. Let's be real here. This is a university campus, a place for reasoned discourse. Thinkers left and right are free to come and express their views: that's academic integrity. But that same integrity obligates us to maintain the intellectual and ethical tenor of the university. No one is hucking tomatoes at George Grant or William F. Buckley Jr here. Ann Coulter is a trash columnist, who has dedicated her career to perpetuating exactly the sort of hollow taking-points political pseudo-debate she professes to deride. She has as much place addressing a community of scholars as does Maury Povich.
Perhaps more importantly, as the provost of the University noted in today's Toronto Star, Canada's conception of free speech is not the same as the USA's. (I know, it never ceases to blow their minds that there are other governments in the world, but it's true. We've got a homemade constitution and everything). Whereas the American formulation is pretty much unbridled (in the rugged individualist tradition they have inherited), our constitutional tradition sees free speech not as an end in itself but as a means to "peace, order, and good government." Indeed, the possibility of overriding provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when weighing conflicting rights against each other (say, those of Arab UofO students who might not take kindly to being called "ragheads") is built right into the Charter itself (the "reasonable infringement" clause of section 1). Coulter was warned in advance of the relevant law, and how did she respond? She called for an investigation of the provost for "promoting hatred of an identifiable group" (conservatives!) in the letter. And the poor schmuck was just the messenger: it's not as though he crafted the law. Apparently Coulter objected to the implication that as a Conservative she was automatically more likely to commit hate speech (apparently the notion that the concern was based on her actual past comments and not merely hypothetical didn't occur to her).
On a right-wing American blog that happened to be my first Google result on the story, one commenter accused another (who had not taken up the mantle of St Ann's martyrdom) of not representing "all Canadians," just "the socialists," which I found odd given that Americans of that political persuasion tend to consider "all Canadians" to be "socialists." (If universal health care is creeping socialism, someone better call the red squad on the Tories!) The authors of the blog also took issue with the protesters for not being equally vocal in opposing Israeli Apartheid Week (because apparently calling attention to the dismal and unjust conditions in which Palestinians live is tantamount to denial of the Shoah).
Canadian students are exasperated. (As much as student union leaders fondly hope for a Nanterre in the streets of Ottawa, it is Canada after all: exasperated is as far as it usually goes). In the midst of an economic crisis that we didn't cause, it's an insult to bring in an apologist for the broken system to spout racist, misogynist, and heterosexist polemics in our own backyard. Good on the students of Ottawa U for defending the integrity of the academy. Perhaps there is hope for our student movement after all.
I once attended a service at the First Unitarian Congregation of Toronto with family members who are active there. In the sermon, the minister grappled with precisely this paradox. How do progressive folk respond to intolerance without stooping to it?
It's unfortunate that this incident is being used to portray Canada as an effete socialist state feeble on free speech protection. Let's be real here. This is a university campus, a place for reasoned discourse. Thinkers left and right are free to come and express their views: that's academic integrity. But that same integrity obligates us to maintain the intellectual and ethical tenor of the university. No one is hucking tomatoes at George Grant or William F. Buckley Jr here. Ann Coulter is a trash columnist, who has dedicated her career to perpetuating exactly the sort of hollow taking-points political pseudo-debate she professes to deride. She has as much place addressing a community of scholars as does Maury Povich.
Perhaps more importantly, as the provost of the University noted in today's Toronto Star, Canada's conception of free speech is not the same as the USA's. (I know, it never ceases to blow their minds that there are other governments in the world, but it's true. We've got a homemade constitution and everything). Whereas the American formulation is pretty much unbridled (in the rugged individualist tradition they have inherited), our constitutional tradition sees free speech not as an end in itself but as a means to "peace, order, and good government." Indeed, the possibility of overriding provisions of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms when weighing conflicting rights against each other (say, those of Arab UofO students who might not take kindly to being called "ragheads") is built right into the Charter itself (the "reasonable infringement" clause of section 1). Coulter was warned in advance of the relevant law, and how did she respond? She called for an investigation of the provost for "promoting hatred of an identifiable group" (conservatives!) in the letter. And the poor schmuck was just the messenger: it's not as though he crafted the law. Apparently Coulter objected to the implication that as a Conservative she was automatically more likely to commit hate speech (apparently the notion that the concern was based on her actual past comments and not merely hypothetical didn't occur to her).
On a right-wing American blog that happened to be my first Google result on the story, one commenter accused another (who had not taken up the mantle of St Ann's martyrdom) of not representing "all Canadians," just "the socialists," which I found odd given that Americans of that political persuasion tend to consider "all Canadians" to be "socialists." (If universal health care is creeping socialism, someone better call the red squad on the Tories!) The authors of the blog also took issue with the protesters for not being equally vocal in opposing Israeli Apartheid Week (because apparently calling attention to the dismal and unjust conditions in which Palestinians live is tantamount to denial of the Shoah).
Canadian students are exasperated. (As much as student union leaders fondly hope for a Nanterre in the streets of Ottawa, it is Canada after all: exasperated is as far as it usually goes). In the midst of an economic crisis that we didn't cause, it's an insult to bring in an apologist for the broken system to spout racist, misogynist, and heterosexist polemics in our own backyard. Good on the students of Ottawa U for defending the integrity of the academy. Perhaps there is hope for our student movement after all.
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