TRM Ordo Summer 2010

July
2 - Requiem (black)
3 - St Thomas the Apostle (red) (proper p. 413)
4 - SUNDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF SS PETER AND PAUL (proper 14) (green)
5 - Requiem (black)
6 - Octave Day of Ss. Peter & Paul, comm. St Thomas More (red); Royal homecoming: departure
7 - Requiem (black)
8 - Requiem (black)
9 - Requiem (black)
10 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
11 - TRINITY VI (proper 15) (green)
12 - St Benedict, pray for the Order of St Benedict (white)
13 - St Henry of Finland (white or yellow)
14 - Requiem (black)
15 - Requiem (black)
16 - Requiem (black)
17 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
18 - TRINITY VII (proper 16) (green)
19 - Requiem (black)
20 - Requiem (black)
21 - Requiem (black)
22 - St Mary Magdalene (red) (proper p. 415)
23 - Requiem (black)
24 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
25 - ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, Patron of the Diocese of Toronto (proper p. 416), comm. Trinity VIII (proper 17) (red)
26 - St Anne, secondary patron of Canada
27 - 28 in the Octave of St James the Apostle
29 - William Wilberforce (white)
30 - in the Octave of St James the Apostle
31 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)

August
1 - THE OCTAVE DAY OF ST JAMES THE APOSTLE, BEING EMANCIPATION DAY (red) (Sacramentary 2153)
2 - Of Trinity IX (proper 18) (green)
3 - St Stephen the Protomartyr (red) (proper p. 417)
4 - Requiem (black)
5 - Requiem, I Evensong of the Transfiguration
6 - Transfiguration (white or best) (proper p. 418), comm. for Peace (Sacramentary no. 5250)
7 - John Mason Neale (white)
8 - TRINITY X (proper 19) (green)
9 - St Dominic (white)
10 - St Laurence, Deacon and Martyr (red)
11 - St Clare of Assisi (white)
12 - Consecration of Charles Inglis (white)
13 - Jeremy Taylor (white or yellow)
14 - Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Maximilien Kolbe, Jonathan Daniels (red) I Evensong of the Assumption
15 - THE FALLING ASLEEP OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY (white and blue) (proper p. 419)
16 - Holy Women of the Old Testament (white)
17 - John Stuart (white)
18 - of Trinity XI (proper 20) (green)
19 - in the Octave of the Falling Asleep BVM
20 - St Bernard of Clairvaux (white)
21 - Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
22 - OCTAVE DAY OF THE DORMITION (proper 21) (white and blue)
23 - Requiem (black)
24 - St Bartholomew the Apostle (red) (proper p. 420)
25 - Requiem (black)
26 - Requiem (black)
27 - St Monica of Hippo (white)
28 - St Augustine of Hippo (white or yellow)
29 - THE BEHEADING OF ST JOHN THE BAPTIST, National Patron (red) (proper p. 421)
30 - Robert McDonald (white)
31 - St Aidan of Lindisfarne (white)

September
1 - of Trinity XIII (proper 22) (green)
2 - Martyrs of New Guinea (red)
3 - St Gregory the Great (white or yellow)
4 - First Anglican Eucharist in Canada (white)
5 - OCTAVE DAY OF THE DECOLLATION (proper 23) (red)
6 - Requiem (black)
7 - Requiem (black) I Evensong of Nativity of BVM
8 - Nativity of the BVM (white and blue) (lections FAtS) Pray for the Sisterhood of St John the Divine

TRM Ordo June 2010

1 - St Justin Martyr (red)
2 - Martyrs of Lyons (red)
3 - Martyrs of Uganda and Janani Luwum (red) or Day of Thanksgiving for the Institution of Holy Communion (Sacramentary no. 1708) (best)
4 - Bl. John XXIII (white or yellow)
5 - St Boniface (red)
6 - SUNDAY IN THE OCTAVE OF CORPUS CHRISTI (white) (Early celebration of Trinity I, proper 10, green)
7 - William Grant Broughton (white or yellow)
8 - in the Octave of Corpus Christi (white)
9 - St Columba (white)
10 - Octave Day of Corpus Christi (white)
11 - Divine Compassion (white) (Sacramentary no. 1709) or St Barnabas the Apostle (red) (proper p. 409)
12 - St Barnabas the Apostle (if not kept) or Our Lady on Saturday (white and blue)
13 - TRINITY II (proper 11), comm. of the Octave if desired (green)
14-15 - in the Octave of the Divine Compassion (white) or Requiem (black)
16 - Joseph Butler (white or yellow)
17 - in the Octave of the Divine Compassion (white) or Requiem (black)
18 - Octave Day of the Divine Compassion (white) or Requiem (black)
19 - Bernard Mizeki (red), St Albans Festival Pilgrimage
20 - TRINITY III (proper 12)
21 - Requiem (black)
22 - St Alban the Protomartyr, Secondary Patron of the Diocese of Toronto (red)
23 - Vigil of the Nativity of St John the Baptist (purple) (lessons p. 496 BAS) Blessing of Bonfires
24 - the Nativity of St John the Baptist, National Patron (white or best)
25 - 26 of the Octave (white) (proper p. 410)
27 - TRINITY IV, comm. of the Octave (proper 13) (white)
28 - St Irenaeus (white or yellow), comm. of the Octave; Royal homecoming: arrival
29 - Ss. Peter & Paul (red) (proper p. 411)
30 - in the Octave of the Nativity of St John the Baptist

1 - the Octave Day of the Nativity of St John the Baptist, being Dominion Day (white) (proper p. 412)

TRM Ordo: Editorial Notes

The basic principle of this kalendar is to reflect traditional Anglo-Catholic practice in conformity to the formularies of the Anglican Church of Canada. Some local, traditional, and American observances are included in italics.

The Ordo assumes the use of the Revised Common Lectionary on Sundays and holy days and the Daily Office Lectionary (or the Weekday Eucharistic Lectionary) on memorials, commemorations, and at daily votive Masses. These lectionaries, together with the major propers for Sundays and holy days, are printed in the Book of Alternative Services. (In communities with a tradition of daily Morning and Evening Prayer, the table of lessons in the Book of Common Prayer is more suited to this purpose, but if the BAS lectionary is preferred, the Weekday Eucharistic Lectionary may be used at Daily Mass). On memorials and commemorations, the collect, secret, and postcommunion are taken from For All the Saints. The minor propers and additional liturgical material, including the propers of Our Lady and of the Departed and proper prayers in traditional language, are always found in the Anglican Gradual & Sacramentary; on days not included in the American kalendar, an appropriate common is used for these. During traditional octaves, a commemoration of the feast is suggested after the orations of the day.

A requiem is assigned on free days. Provision is made for the traditional Saturday votive Mass of Our Lady. The BAS enjoins a distinction between "memorials" (which use the colour of the day and a reading from the Common of Saints) and "commemorations" (which use the colour of the season and the ferial readings). Here the colour of the day and the ferial readings are instead appointed for both.

The colour sequence gives traditional Roman and English options, drawing from Ritual Notes (9) and Western Rite Orthodox sources. I have also consulted the chart at Full Homely Divinity. In parishes of more modest means, purple vestments may take the place of crimson, rose, and/or black. For much of the Church's history, the now oft-lamented "local custom" was the norm rather than an anomaly, and some leeway must be allowed for circumstance.

TRM Ordo Easter 2010

No fasting is undertaken during the Great Fifty Days.

April
5 - Monday in Easter Week, comm. Emily Ayckbowm
6 - Tuesday in Easter Week
7 - Wednesday in Easter Week
8 - Thursday in Easter Week
9 - Friday in Easter Week, comm. William Law
10 - Saturday in Easter Week
11 - THE OCTAVE DAY OF EASTER (gold or white)
12 - 15 of the Resurrection (white)
16 - Mary Brant (Koñwatsiãtsiaiéñni) (white)
17 - Our Lady in Easter (gold or white and blue)
18 - THE THIRD SUNDAY OF EASTER (white)
19 - 20 for the Departed in Easter (purple)
21 - St Anselm (white or yellow)
22 - for the Departed in Easter (purple)
23 - St George (red)
24 - Martyrs of the Twentieth Century (red)
25 - THE FOURTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (white)
26 - St Mark the Evangelist (red) (proper p. 404); Rogation Mass (Sacramentary no. 5330) (violet)
27 - 28 - for the Departed in Easter (purple)
29 - Catherine of Siena (white)
30 - Marie de l'Incarnation (white)

May
1 - Our Lady in Eastertide. May Festival Station I at S. Matthias.
2 - THE FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER (white)
3 - Ss. Philip & James (red) (proper p. 405) (Crouchmas in the Order of the Holy Cross and the Society of the Holy Cross) (proper p. 422)
4 - St Athanasius (white or yellow)
5 - 6 for the Departed in Easter (purple)
7 - Julian of Norwich. Pray for the Order of Julian of Norwich
8 - Our Lady in Easter - May Festival Station II at S. Thomas; Whitekirk and Haddington Pilgrimage
9 - ROGATION SUNDAY the beating of bounds (purple/white)
10 - 11 Rogation Days (Sacramentary nn. 5334, 5338) (purple)
12 - Florence Nightingale (white or yellow); Eve of the Ascension
13 - ASCENSION DAY (white or gold or best) (proper p. 342)
14 - S. Matthias the Apostle (red) (proper p. 407)
15 - Our Lady in Easter, May Festival Station III: S. Bartholomew
16 - THE SEVENTH SUNDAY OF EASTER: IN THE OCTAVE OF THE ASCENSION
17 - 18 in the Octave of the Ascension (white)
19 - St Dunstan of Canterbury (white or yellow)
20 - Octave Day of the Ascension (white)
21 - for the Departed in Easter (purple)
22 - Our Lady in Easter (white and blue); Vigil of Pentecost (Sacramentary no. 1657) (purple, white)
23 - WHITSUNDAY (best)
24 - Monday in the Octave of Pentecost
25 - Tuesday in the Octave of Pentecost, comm. St Bede
26 - Ember Wednesday in Pentecost, comm. St Augustine of Canterbury (red) (proper p. 395)
27 - Thursday in the Octave of Pentecost, comm. John Charles Roper
28 - Ember Friday in Pentecost, comm. Roberta Elizabeth Tilton (red) (proper p. 395)
29 - In Toronto, the Visitation: May Festival Station IV at S. Mary Magdalene, elsewhere Ember Saturday in Pentecost (red) (proper p. 395)
30 - TRINITY SUNDAY, Athanasian Creed (best)
31 - Visitation of the BVM (blue and white) (proper p. 408); Anglican National Pilgrimage

Request

Might I ask, in line with policies at a number of other blogs, that anonymous contributors adopt a pseudonym, only for the purpose of mutual distinction?

BCP and BAS

Unlike some of my fellow parishioners, I don't believe that BCP is necessarily better. I would be quite averse to ordination with the BCP, at least to the priesthood, given the lack of explicit sacrificial intent. The BAS has also given us back rites such as the Imposition of Ashes, Chrismation, the liturgies of Holy Week, the sacrament of reconciliation outwith the context of Extreme Unction, and a daily lectionary for Mass. The various forms of the Canon of the Mass have an explicit epiclesis and oblation. Rubrical provision is made for the minor propers so that the congregation may indeed "sing the Mass" and not just "sing at Mass."

Full communion resources from the Lutherans give us opportunities to use the Asperges and the Litany of the Saints (duly reformed!) and a more breviary-style office for those who prefer it. I once attended Sung Matins in the Waterloo Lutheran Seminary's Keffer Memorial Chapel using the then brand new Evangelical Lutheran Worship (the "cranberry book"). Quite different from the BCP cathedral men and boys experience, but I loved the soaring Venite.

The BCP remains a rich treasury of prayers. The services of Morning and Evening Prayer, the Coverdale Psalter, the collects, and countless prayers for numerous occasions, are all laudably retained. Even its Communion Office has its own internal logic and integrity. So while I admire the convenience of the American prayer book, I remain a fan of our two-book system. I also firmly believe that the slender Canadian Book of Occasional Offices should be preserved, for such oddities as the Admission of Deaconesses and for sundry benedictions, dedications, and civic ceremonies, not to mention the setting apart to the minor ministries. And I still regard the Anglican Gradual and Sacramentary as the best expression of Catholic worship in conformity to the authorized service books of our provinces, although my colour scheme is largely indebted to the Use of Christminster.

Observation

In the same-sex debate currently ongoing in the Anglican Church of Canada, a number of the arguments contra come from individuals who believe homosexuality per se to be immoral and insist that the Church cannot "bless sin." These arguments, however, are out of order, as this private opinion is not the teaching of the Anglican Church of Canada, which "affirms the integrity and sanctity of committed adult same-sex relationships." And so the same-sex debate has to begin with the premise that same-gender unions are holy. Recall that Nuptial Masses for same-gender couples, minus the blessing itself, are already permitted by the House of Bishops, so the question under debate is not "is homosexuality moral?" That question has already been answered by General Synod, and so authors who argue against same-sex unions on the basis of their alleged sinfulness are essentially talking past the voice of the Church and giving an argument that has already been rejected.

And so reasserters must explain why, given the integrity and sanctity of same-sex unions, and their status as a permissible subject of intercession in votive Masses, they should not be blessed. Alas, many have simply been content to cite Scripture (always focusing on smaller, arcane clauses, of course, and ignoring the more broadly sweeping themes of love and justice) and assume, almost autistically, that their interpretation is equally evident to everyone else.